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The Google TV home screen is focused on recommendations and making it easy for you to pick up where you left off. Sometimes, though, the “Continue Watching” row isn’t super helpful. Thankfully, you can remove titles from the row. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3xg2IFh

Documentaries are a great way to learn more about the world, but that doesn’t mean you have to pay a premium to watch them. There are many YouTubers out there producing high-quality documentaries that only cost your time and maybe watching an ad or two. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3yk5t9K

To learn a skill, we gather knowledge, practice carefully, and monitor our performance. Eventually, we become better at that activity. Machine learning is a technique that allows computers to do just that. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3j77XSB

Russia’s “Nauka” Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) successfully connected with the International Space Station on Thursday, July 29. Not long after, however, the flight control team noticed the module’s thrusters were unexpectedly firing, temporarily pushing the station out of orientation. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3BYrWeJ

Stop. Look at your hand. No, the other hand—the one with the mouse in it. Are you still using the same old wired mouse you’ve been using for years? That cord gets annoying, doesn’t it? There are more quality wireless mice now than ever before, so let’s finally ditch that cable with a mouse perfect for you. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3j86wmL

Panic’s unique and experimental gaming console, Playdate, is finally available to pre-order. The crank-based console made its first appearance over two years ago and has left fans wondering whether or not the console would ever make it to production. And now, we have our answer! Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3fc36P1

Here at Review Geek, we believe you can never have too many board games. We also know that they can be expensive, which is why we’re sharing 10 more amazing games under $25 beyond our original list. This way you can add some new titles to your collection or try a new game without breaking the bank. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3A3rZV9

Windows 10’s Taskbar provides quick access to your most-used apps and folders, but aside from a few default apps, you’ll need to pin the shortcuts to the Taskbar yourself. Here are five ways to get that done. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2WtQa09

Fans of Master & Dynamic’s stellar MW08 earbuds will be pleased to hear that the company just released an upgraded version of its luxury true wireless earbuds—the MW08 Sport—for just $50 more. They share some features with the original pair but boast some much-needed newer features as well. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3BTj2zi

One of the quirky things about Google TV—which is different than Android TV—is the Play Store. It’s still present, but Google has integrated it deeply into the home screen. We’ll show you how to open it like normal. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3BUcPmu

A leggy robot named Cassie is the first bipedal machine to complete a 5K on a single charge with minimal help from humans. It’s a serious milestone for machine learning and robotics, but it’s also a bit creepy. For those who are terrified of AI overlords, there is but one concession here—Cassie’s more of a speedwalker than a runner. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3l7hWtW

In perhaps what has been the worst kept secret in the history of Arcade1Up, today the company announced its latest arcade cabinet. Sing it with me! Thhhhheee Siiiiiiiimpsoooooons! You can pre-order The Simpsons on August 16th, and it will even come with a second game. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Vhu0h0

Gmail is something most of us use every day, most of the time without any problems. Unfortunately, some users run into the error of not receiving emails. There are multiple things you can try to start receiving your emails again. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3x8pRtc

Whether you’re planning out your next trip or just want to travel the globe from the comfort of home these books can help. Visit beautiful, exciting far-flung places all over the world with the fascinating characters in these classic titles. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/3BM32im

Professional photographers prize full-frame cameras for their excellent low-light performance and large field of view, though such cameras usually cost $2,000 or more. Now, a new leak suggests that Canon is developing an $800 full-frame RF mount camera. It would be the most affordable full-frame camera ever to hit store shelves and a wonderful product for amateur photographers. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kXxHU4

With Alexa Routines, you can schedule your lights to turn on and off, change brightness, and change colors. You can even create schedules for your lights to run on specific days and times. Today, we’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3i4XE28

Netflix fans are about to have a very good week—they’re not only getting the usual end-of-the-month flood but a pile of fun new Netflix original content, too. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/3kWtEaq

Have you ever run a race? If so, you already know that a photo finish is sometimes required to pick the winner! But what if two people arrived at the same time at the finish line? Welcome to race conditions. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3kYrqYm

Why not? Japanese company Neurowear is crowdfunding a new version of the Necomimi, a pair of motorized cat ears that move based on your brain waves. While you probably won’t catch your boss wearing the Necomimi headset during a Zoom call (although that would be cool), they could become a popular item among livestreamers, cosplayers, and of course, weeaboos. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kVxsZu

Google continues to add collaboration tools to its Chat app that make it more appealing to companies and teams. One such feature is the ability to create and assign tasks. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3kVaeTi

You might have seen the acronym “YSK” online before, often followed by facts and information. Not sure what it’s supposed to mean? Here’s what it stands for and why you should know about it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3BFOL6Q

Cigarette butts are one of the most littered items in the world, and they’re especially hard to clean up on a hot, sandy beach. To help mitigate the problem, Dutch company TechTics designed BeachBot (or BB), a robot that exists solely to clean the beach of cigarette butts. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2VahJuM

Collaborating on a document in Google Chat saves you time and a couple of steps. With a simple click, you can create a Docs, Sheets, or Slides document and work on it together right in a Google Chat room. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3kTxl0O

Microsoft is hard at work on PowerToys for Windows 10. This open-source project adds many powerful features to Windows, from a bulk file renamer to an Alt+Tab alternative that lets you search for windows from your keyboard. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2ULHwtB

Tesla has announced the Virtual Power Plant, a program that allows Powerwall owners to send energy back into the California electric grid during emergencies—of which there may be many this summer. Those who sign up will not be compensated by Tesla, though they will be compensated by the electric company if they’re on a net metering plan. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kQh2BY

Although technology can often be expensive, there are a lot of great tech items under $25. Upgrading your daily life with a few pieces of useful tech doesn’t have to put you out hundreds of dollars. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3Bs0YvQ

OnePlus has officially announced its upcoming Buds Pro, a $150 competitor to the similarly-named AirPods Pro and Galaxy Buds Pro. With their unique design, Dolby Atmos support, wireless charging, a big battery, and an ANC mode that adapts to your surroundings, the Buds Pro looks like OnePlus’ first attempt to really stand out in the audio market. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kRqbtM

This week Volkswagen announced that the popular Passat sedan would end production in 2022 as the company shifts to making EVs in the United States. That said, the final 2022 VW Passat will come in a Limited Edition model that pays homage to the plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the car was manufactured. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3i3REXD

On Windows, every new account you create is a user account by default. As a result, it gets limited privileges and is restrictive. But, you can grant full access by turning the user account into an administrator. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3rsO1gC

Amazon is now offering a masculine-sounding voice option to its virtual assistant, Alexa, which has now started rolling out to users. The company is also introducing a new wake word, Ziggy, to trigger the assistant. You can hear the new assistant’s voice here. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3izOn0X

Last week, a Bloomberg report revealed that Netflix hired Mike Verdu, a former EA and Oculus executive, to lead a new games department. We speculated that Netflix may focus on the “addictive” mobile games market, a hypothesis that Netflix has now confirmed in a letter to its shareholders. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2TpjaVK

The perennial question for anyone in need of mobile computing: Should you buy a full laptop, or should you buy a tablet and try to use it like a laptop? The second option is very feasible with the latest iPad models. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3kGBYel

If you’ve sent a link to your WordPress article, and it didn’t expand to show the image, title, and description, that’s because you haven’t set up your Open Graph Meta Tags in WordPress. We’ll show you how to configure them to improve your social media presence. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2Toc1F8

The Tokyo Olympics are right around the corner, and Roku users have the best seat in town for the show! NBCUniversal and Roku have partnered up to bring the platform thousands of hours of Olympic game coverage along with additional exclusive content. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Un2bUJ

Reading through the cartoonishly long list of existing Linux distros, the sundry flavors and the off-shoots of off-shoots all start to blur together. To remedy that, we’ve gathered a few distros that truly stand out from the crowd. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3BoQHQX

Searching for Wear OS apps is a genuine pain in the neck. It’s a process that Google (thankfully) wants to revamp ahead of the “new WearOS” launch later this year. Over the next few weeks, Google will push a Play Store and Wear OS update to streamline the app searching and installation process. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/36OMvfy

If your meeting attendees regularly have back-to-back meetings, you can ease their transitions by automatically shortening meeting durations in Google Calendar. With the Speedy Meetings feature, your events can end 10 or 15 minutes early. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3rl7b86

In Windows 11, Task Manager is no longer just a right-click away on the taskbar. Whether you’re troubleshooting or just keeping an eye on your system resources, here are six different ways to launch it instead. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3xUKdr1

Many cloud providers charge for data transfer, often for each GB every month. These costs can be so high that it may be prohibitively expensive to run some data-heavy services. If you still want to move to the cloud, what can you do to mitigate your bandwidth bill? Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3xPtENj

Along with most major events, the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tokyo 2020 games (2021 Olympics?) will now be held between July 23 and August 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, and broadcast in the U.S. via NBC. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3zcPw5u

If you take advantage of Microsoft Excel’s charts for helpful visual displays of your data, check out the People Graph option to create a simple depiction of the number of people or items you have logged in your spreadsheet. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3BaGDv3

Why is everyone saying “sus” lately, and what does it mean? Here’s a look into the rise of this unique piece of internet slang. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3hKUSPh

When you have a Google Sheets spreadsheet full of data, it can be difficult to see certain cells at a glance. If you have empty cells where you expect data or errors generated from formulas, you can automatically highlight them. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3hNyu82

Windows has never actually had a “system tray.” For 25 years, we’ve all been getting it wrong. Microsoft insists those icons are in a “notification area.” So where did the term “system tray” come from? And why does Windows 10 call it the “system tray”—but only once? Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3hbtAiD

Valve unveiled its new handheld gaming console—the Steam Deck—this week. Interest in it is so high that when it went up for pre-order earlier today, Valve’s servers were instantly overloaded. Users were served up a frustrating slew of errors throughout the checkout process. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kxxZAL

Automatically highlighting data in your spreadsheets makes reviewing your most useful data points a cinch. So if you want to view your top- or bottom-ranked values, conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel can make that data pop. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ktmOsS

Docker images use registries for version control, such as the Docker Hub that hosts public images for anyone to download and run. However, before uploading an image to the Hub or any registry, you must give it the proper tags. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3z5h7FI

Amazon is currently rolling out Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support for 2020 Toshiba and Insignia 4K UHD Fire TVs. Support for the AirPlay and HomeKit protocols will eventually find its way to other Fire TV products, though Amazon’s press release does not mention Fire TV sticks or set-top boxes. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3kpNSJx

On July 14th, Nothing announced that it would auction the first 100 units of its Ear 1 earbuds a week ahead of their official July 27th reveal. But StockX, the company hosting Nothing’s auction, has accidentally leaked the Ear 1 design. If this leak is accurate, then it’s our first real look at the mysterious Ear 1 buds. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3wD4boM

XML is complicated, and parsing it natively is fairly hard, even with scripting languages. Luckily, there’s a utility that can convert XML to JSON, which is easier to work with, both in scripts and on the command line. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2VQ7w7r