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The biggest sporting event in the world is the FIFA World Cup in Russia, and if you want to watch the games without cable, you’ve got options—depending on where you live. Here’s how to watch the World Cup online. We’ll cover the specific situation for the USA, the UK, Australia, and Canada, and where to look for information in other countries. Having Issues Bypassing Geographic Restrictions? Use a VPN Whether you’re traveling from your home country or just live in a place that has ridiculous restrictions on what’s available, the solution to bypassing restrictions is always to use a VPN, which will make it appear as if you are coming from a different location....

You’ve got a great digital camera. You’ve got all your social media apps on your phone. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could snap a beautiful shot with your DSLR and shuttle it right over to your phone to throw up on Facebook or Instagram? With an inexpensive upgrade, any camera can become a Wi-Fi enabled one. RELATED: How to Wirelessly Transfer Photos from Your Camera to Your Computer...

Blu-ray Players Are Going Away In 2019, Samsung discontinued production of its Blu-ray players, and it’s becoming harder to find a new player as time passes. Few prebuilt desktop PCs or laptops come with optical drives anymore, either. So if you have a collection of Blu-ray discs to play, you don’t have many options for playing them. That is unless you buy a current or previous-generation Xbox or PlayStation console. Since Blu-ray discs are the standard format for console video games, discs will remain in production for at least as long as these consoles are relevant....

Be sure to use the function keys at the top of your keyboard, too. These keys replace the F1-F12 keys with useful browser action and hardware control buttons. You can even press a key to see all open windows at once. Chromebook-Specific Shortcuts Search+L: Lock your Chromebook’s screen. Ctrl+Shift+Q: Log out of your Chromebook. Press the key combination twice to quit. Alt+E: Open the Chrome browser’s menu. This only works if a Chrome browser window is open and focused....

Some stories are simply too good not to be true. It’s an old adage in the media, something reporters knowingly say to each other when something is too fun, too good of a story, and too likely to go viral for anyone to fact check. You don’t want to be that guy, killing everyone’s buzz. This week gave us an illustrative example of this (albeit one that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of anything)....

Android updates are a still a point of contention among die-hard fans, because most manufacturers don’t keep updated with the latest offerings from Google. But just because your phone isn’t getting full OS updates doesn’t mean it’s totally out of date. While some major features still require full version updates, Google has a system in place that keeps many handsets at least somewhat relevant with Google Play Services. The company can squash certain bugs and even introduce new features just by updating Play Services....

Unless you’re constantly playing with one of those fidget cubes, your gaming PC is probably the loudest piece of equipment in your home office that doesn’t actually have a speaker. You could completely rebuild your PC into a efficient, low-power, water-cooled statement of subtlety…or you could buy these in-line adapters for a quick and cheap alternative. RELATED: How to Auto-Control Your PC’s Fans for Cool, Quiet Operation Then, just install them between your standard case fan and the electrical connection on your motherboard or power supply rail, and a built-in resistor cuts the power to the fan by about half, resulting in lower revolutions per minute and measurably lower noise levels....

The most important thing about the new deal with Best Buy is the same-day repairs. Being without your phone is never a good thing, so having the option to bring it to your local store and so you can walk out with a fixed device quickly is fantastic. Unfortunately, foldable devices won’t be eligible for same-day repairs. Samsung said Galaxy Flip and Fold devices are excluded, presumably because they’re more complicated to fix than traditional smartphone screens....

In this article you’ll learn the differences between stateful and stateless applications, as well as when each can be used. You’ll also see how the two models influence the requirements of DevOps implementations. What Is State? A service’s “state” is the persistent information which gets recorded during one transaction or event and then recalled during another. One of the simplest examples of state is a database server: it manages stored data that needs to be reliably persisted....

If you’re a frequent YouTube viewer, you may have heard the term “Memberships” tossed around. It sounds similar to subscriptions, but Memberships are very much different. We’ll explain what this is and help you decide if you should join one. What Is a YouTube Membership? Introduced in 2018, YouTube Memberships allow channels to charge a monthly fee for additional “perks.” If you’re familiar with services like Patreon, Memberships are a similar concept....

These days, it seems like every Windows user has heard about CCleaner. It’s widely recommended, online and offline—but this week, it acted as a piggyback for malware. The real question we should be asking is: do you really need CCleaner in the first place? CCleaner Is Disk Cleanup On Steroids CCleaner has two main uses. One, it scans for and deletes useless files, freeing up space. Two, it erases private data like your browsing history and list of most recently opened files in various programs....

You notice a process named “backupd” while using Activity Monitor. What is this process, and why is it running on your Mac? RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My Mac? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, mdsworker, installd, WindowServer, blued, launchd, and many others. Don’t know what those services are? Better start reading!...

If you spend any time in Task Manager, you may have noticed something called “Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation”, and wondered why it sometimes goes a bit nuts with system resource usage. Here’s what it does and what you can do if that happens. RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like Runtime Broker, svchost....

In the Android world, one app store is king—the Google Play Store. This is the “official” place to download apps and games. However, there are a few alternatives. F-Droid is one of the most interesting options out there. Just like getting Windows applications, you can get Android apps from a variety of sources. In fact, you don’t really even need an app store at all. The Play Store just makes it a lot easier and safer to install apps....

Why Signal Is Special Signal is available for Android, iPhone, and iPad. There’s also a Signal desktop client for Windows, Mac, and Linux. To join, all you need is a phone number. It’s free. The user experience of Signal is just like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and other popular chat apps. It’s a messaging app with features like one-to-one messages, groups, stickers, photos, file transfers, voice calls, and even video calls. You can have group chats with up to 1000 people and group calls with up to eight people....

Generally speaking, most of us think of Bluetooth as a simple, device-to-device to connection used to do things like play music or other audio (speakers/headsets), offer quick notification access (smartwatches), or perform other tasks. But there’s a new Bluetooth standard on the rise, and it allows your web browser to control nearby Bluetooth devices. It’s going to be cool. This standard, simply called Web Bluetooth, is already a part of the Chrome browser....

Firefox transforms today. It’s now a multi-process browser with a new design, gaining speed but leaving traditional Firefox extensions behind. If you’ve switched to Google Chrome, you might want to give Firefox another chance. But, if you’re already using Firefox, you’re in for some big changes. Firefox Quantum is another name for Firefox 57, which Mozilla released on November 14, 2017. Firefox Is Now Much Faster Let’s start with the good stuff that everyone will love: Firefox is just faster now....

Despite their names, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Private, and others are not the same thing as Bitcoin. They’re based on Bitcoin, and are piggybacking on its name, but they’re different things. Here’s how to know which Bitcoin variant is which. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency based on open source code. Anyone can take the code, modify it, and release their own version. That’s exactly how these other coins were created....

What Is Strobing? Strobing or jerkiness occurs when the frames of a movie don’t quite blend together well enough, creating an effect that’s a bit like looking at a moving object under a very fast strobe light. This can occur because each frame doesn’t have enough motion blur (which we’ll explain later on) to blend each frame to the next, or if there aren’t enough frames to make smooth motion to begin with....

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And Kodi boxes sound way too good to be true, offering unlimited free TV and movies for life after purchasing a single piece of hardware. If you bought one and it’s not working right now, and I’ve got some bad news for you. To start: You’ve been pirating movies and TV shows this entire time. I’m sincerely sorry if you didn’t realize that....