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Quick Links With the frigid cold months here, you’re probably wondering whether or not you should warm up your gas car in the winter before driving. It’s a decades-old myth and something you’ve probably heard repeatedly. I understand the appeal of getting into a warm car with the heater running and windows defrosted when it’s freezing outside, but you’re not actually doing your engine any good. You’ve probably heard the saying that it’s good for your vehicle to warm it up, but that’s a myth....

Quick Links Apple is kicking off the new year with a gift for everyone: a free weekend of Apple TV+. The entire catalog of original shows and movies will be available to stream without a subscription from Saturday, January 4th to Sunday, January 5th. Here’s what you should watch. Since the free periodonly lasts for 48 hours, I chose a handful of shows that can easily be finished on a weekend....

Quick Links One way to speed up your PowerPoint workflow is to navigate the program’s many areas, tabs, groups, menus, and commands using only your keyboard. What’s more, keeping your hands on your keyboard helps you maintain a central posture, minimizing your chances of suffering from mouse shoulder pain. The keyboard shortcuts in this guide apply to Windows computers. Mac keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint can follow the same principle, though the Alt key on a Windows keyboard is often replaced by the Options key on a Mac, and the Windows Ctrl key can be substituted for a Mac’s Cmd key....

Summary I love reading both paper and E Ink books, but unlike reading on a screen with a backlight, you have to bring your own photons to the party. Picking the wrong light can make your reading experience less than ideal, and I’ve experimented with a ton of solutions until I’ve found the right light for every occasion. Paper Looks Different Depending on the Light Since paper is reflective and not emissive of light, it means that the type of light you shine on it will alter how that paper looks....

If you’ve everinstalled a CPU(or watched it done) you’ve almost certainly seen a small square object slot into a flat socket on a motherboard. For a brief time in PC history, though, desktop processors looked like NES cartridges, sometimes with fans strapped to them! The Rise of the Slot CPU: Pentium II’s Debut In May of 1997 Intel launched the Pentium II. Rather than launching these processors in a package where a grid of pins were inserted into a grid of holes in a motherboard socket, the “Slot 1” design used an edge connector....

Quick Links Your home screen says a lot about you—it’s like the front door to your digital life. While most people might expect to see the usual social media apps, the apps I’m highlighting here serve a specific utility—they’re tools I rely on to stay productive, entertained, and organized. 11.1.1.1 by Cloudflare This app is my go-to for a free and reliableVPN service. While I don’t use a VPN daily, there are moments when it’s essential....

You might be asking yourself, “How old of a graphics card should I buy?” The answer is actually pretty clear, and NVIDIA helps us out a lot by telling us when driver support will end for various graphics cards. NVIDIA Still Supports GPUs Going Back to the 900-Series While it might be a bit hard to believe in the age ofplanned obsolescence, NVIDIA is actually still supporting graphics cards going back to the 900-series (and even a few of the 700-series)....

Not every greatEVgets its moment in the spotlight. Some slip under the radar—not because they lack quality, but because the buzz never found them. We’re not talking aboutTeslasorRivianshere. We’re talking about the kind ofused EVthat quietly delivers luxury, performance, and value without the hype. One model in particular stands out—an underappreciated gem that deserves a second look, especially if you think you’ve already seen the best. In order to give you the most up-to-date and accurate information possible, the data used to compile this article was sourced from the Polestar website and other authoritative sources, including theEPA,Kelley Blue Book, andTopSpeed....

It would be nice to one day stand under a cloud on Mars with a loved one and romantically ask what it looks like to them, only to see their eyes bulging out like Schwarzenegger in Total Recall because they forget their helmet. But astronomers have been doing that very thing (from far away, obviously), and they noticed what the clouds actually look like: Earth clouds. Not a dinosaur or anything....

Quick Links Summary When you gaze at the night sky, you’re likely to catch a glimpse of a planet orbiting the Sun. However, when several of these celestial neighbors decide to join in, the result is something called a planetary alignment. Let’s delve into this phenomenon and how you can watch when it happens next. Why Do Planets Parade in a Line? A planetary alignment or “planet parade” is an astronomical phenomenon in which multiple planets from our solar system appear together in the night sky at the same time....

Quick Links Summary The character limit for ChatGPT text prompts is 4096 characters, and there’s also a limit of 4096 tokens per conversation. If you aren’t sure how many tokens your prompt uses, you can calculate that with OpenAI’sTokenizer tool. Are you getting a character limit error onChatGPT, or are you just curious to find out if this AI tool imposes any restrictions on the number of characters you may use in your queries or conversations?...

Quick Links Summary For dual-channel, the most common memory configuration, a pair of RAM modules should be inserted into the first and third, or second and fourth slots. If you’re only inserting one module, it can go in any slot. One of the easiestmistakes you can make when buildingor upgrading a computer is placing the memory modules in the wrong RAM slots, resulting in suboptimal performance. So which RAM slots should you use, and why does it make any difference where the memory modules go?...

There’s a lot we can agree on that goes into making an attractive phone. When a phone comes along that does something different, many of us are put off—but the more I think about it, the more I start to feel that these phones, for better or worse, are the best-looking ones. Nothing Phone 3 The Nothing Phone (3) sports the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip, 12/16GB RAM, 256GB/512GB storage, a sharp 1....