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In the context of online advertising, a House Ad (a.k.a. In-House Ad) is a self-promotional ad that a company/organization runs on its own website. House Ads typically focus on new products, new features for existing products, and other forms of in-house revenue generation. | | This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. - The House That Spied on Me
In-depth feature explaining all the data your Smart Home is sending back home. [Gizmodo] - John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018
The founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has died, but he's left behind a better internet for all of us. [Electronic Frontier Foundation] - Twitter Reports First Quarterly Profit, Despite User Stagnation
Twitter had a profitable quarter! It sounds like a joke but this has literally never happened. [The New York Times] - Amazon expands Prime Now delivery to Whole Foods, but only in four markets
We all saw this coming, but stock prices for other grocery stores are tanking at the news. [ArsTechnica] - Scientists have proven the existence of superionic ice, a strange state of matter
Water can be a gas, a liquid, and a solid, but it can also be superionic ice, a totally new state of matter. [Quartz] | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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). | |
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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