Windows 10 thus far has been a huge success, with Microsoft’s newest OS having recently passed over 110 million installs. All in all, that’s a pretty impressive start given that the highly anticipated Windows update was released just about 11 weeks ago.

But Microsoft doesn’t want to stop stop at desktop OS dominance and call it a day. On the contrary It wants to take back some of the valuable browser marketshare it lost rather quickly to Google Chrome. That being the case, leaked screenshots from an upcoming build of Windows 10 show how Microsoft plans to dissuade users from changing the default web browser on their system from Microsoft Edge to something else.

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Want better battery life on your laptop? You might want to consider using a browser besides Chrome. Digital Citizen has tested popular Internet browsers across multiple Windows 10 laptops and has found one major common denominator: Chrome is by far the biggest battery hog.

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If you live in the Northeast, you got a harsh reminder this past weekend that Winter 2015-2016 is going to be a freezing one, just like meteorologists have been predicting. You could wait another month to do your winter shopping and pay a premium, or you can take advantage of the huge sale Amazon is having right now on sweaters, coats and everything else you’ll need to stay warm this winter.

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If you’ve ever had a neighbor who’s flown a drone over your yard, you’ve probably been tempted to shoot it down and teach him a lesson. Because of this, we can’t help but cheer every time we see a video of an animal taking down a drone that’s invading their territory and being a general nuisance. We’ve rounded up some of the best videos of animals attacking drones from around the web for your viewing pleasure — check them out below.

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New York City already has a fantastic park dead in the center of Manhattan. But if for some reason Central Park isn’t enough for you, then you should know there’s a futuristic underground park in the making, and the first photos showing it off are already out.

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The next installment in the Star Wars Saga is easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The Force Awakens will hit cinemas in less than two months, and Disney already released the final trailer for the film, including special teasers for it, and the final poster, which is chock full of details. However, Star Wars fans have put their Photoshop skills to good use to create hilarious Star Wars poster memes.

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Say goodbye to wires and enjoy quality sound while saving plenty of money with your purchase of the Wireless Bluetooth Speaker BLKBOX POP360. This speaker is on sale for $24.99 with free shipping from Amazon.

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The best thing about Android is also the worst thing about Android. That is, the power that Android gives users to customize the platform and make it better also gives OEMs and carriers the power to make it worse. However, some new developments with Android 6.0 Marshmallow indicate that Google is taking more control over what manufacturers can and can’t do with Android — and that’s very good news for users.

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Some Edward Snowden leaks have revealed that the NSA and other intelligence agencies can break encryption barriers for mass surveillance purposes. It has been theorized that a flaw in encryption used by many Internet services lets the spy agency decrypt HTTPS, SSH, and VPN traffic, and a new paper seems to prove that.

Indeed, a massive effort comparable to the attempts of breaking the German Enigma coding machine during the World War II seems to have given the NSA the tools required to break trillions of secure connections.

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If you’ve ever read recent dystopian sci-fi books such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake or Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, you’d know that one of their common predictions is that in the future genetically mutated super animals will run amok and make day-to-day life very dangerous for the world’s remaining humans. Now Technology Review brings us word that scientists in China claim to have used DNA manipulation to create a stronger, faster breed of dogs that will ominously be used for various police and military operations.

Gulp.

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