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Is It Safe to Buy Used GPUs From Cryptocurrency Miners?
How to Pair AirPods With a PC, Mac, Android Phone, or Other Device
How to Use Old and Differently-Branded Lenses with Your Mirrorless Camera
What Is Google Play Services, and Why Is It Draining My Battery?
The Best Way to Cast Movies from Android or iPhone to Your TV
The Best Third-Party Alexa Skills on the Amazon Echo
What Is “parentalcontrolsd”, and Why Is It Running on My Mac?
How to Dock and Undock Toolbars In LibreOffice
How to Spot (and Avoid) Fake Android Apps in the Play Store
What Are Altcoins, and Why Do They Exist?




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Is It Safe to Buy Used GPUs From Cryptocurrency Miners?

Thank God, the cryptocurrency bubble finally seems to be bursting. It had gotten so ridiculous that GPUs were skyrocketing in cost. But now, you’re about to see a bunch of powerful secondhand graphics cards flood the market, as Bitcoin “miners” try to recoup some of that cost.

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How to Pair AirPods With a PC, Mac, Android Phone, or Other Device

Apple’s AirPods “just work” with iPhones thanks to their W1 chip, but they’re also standard Bluetooth headphones. That means they work with any device that supports Bluetooth audio—even Android phones.

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How to Use Old and Differently-Branded Lenses with Your Mirrorless Camera

Mirrorless cameras are proving more and more popular. As they've developed in the last few years, they’ve become really useful in certain circumstances.

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What Is Google Play Services, and Why Is It Draining My Battery?

If you’ve ever taken a look into your Android device’s battery settings screen, you’ve probably seen “Google Play Services” listed here. But what exactly is it, and why is it using so much battery?

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The Best Way to Cast Movies from Android or iPhone to Your TV

Smartphones have become a sort of catch-all for our digital media collections, and it’s not uncommon to have a couple of movies tucked way for those times when you have nothing better to do. If you have a Chromecast, though, you’ll probably need an extra app to get those movies onto the big screen.

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The Best Third-Party Alexa Skills on the Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo can do a lot of neat stuff, but its built-in features are just the tip of the iceberg. With third-party “Alexa Skills”, you can add further capabilities to the Echo, like adding events to your Google Calendar and even ordering pizza.

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What Is “parentalcontrolsd”, and Why Is It Running on My Mac?

Something called parentalcontrolsd is running on your Mac—at least, that’s what you found when you checked Activity Monitor. Maybe it’s using up CPU cycles, or maybe it’s just there and you want to know why. To begin: this is part of macOS, so don’t worry about it being malware.

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How to Dock and Undock Toolbars In LibreOffice

Modern office software suites can be unnervingly complicated. Like most of its alternatives, the free and open-source LibreOffice sticks its often-used controls above the content area in various menus. But most of the available tools are actually hidden by default—you’ll have to manually add the ones that aren’t visible out of the box. Here’s how.

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How to Spot (and Avoid) Fake Android Apps in the Play Store

Fake Android apps in the Play Store are a problem. People create listings designed to look exactly like popular apps, often using the same icon and name, to trick you into downloading it—then bombarding you with ads (or worse, malware).

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What Are Altcoins, and Why Do They Exist?

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency out there, and it's still the biggest—for now, at least. But, as we've explained before, Bitcoin has a lot of problems as a currency. The term "altcoin" refers to any other cryptocurrency that's not Bitcoin—in other words, they’re alternatives to Bitcoin.

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