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I enjoy planning trips, but turning my rough notes into a proper itinerary is a different story. For my upcoming trip to Finland, I’ve scribbled down places to visit, train times, hotel check-ins, and activities on paper. Earlier, I could ask Gemini to create a PDF, but if I wanted to fix something or change a section, I’d have to download the file and edit it elsewhere. I wanted a way to make those changes without leaving Gemini.

As someone who has been trying to get into camping and hiking a lot more recently, I have very quickly learned how important it is to be prepared. When you're exploring places where there is no mobile service, let alone a Wi-Fi connection, you need to make sure that you have all the information that you need ready and on hand.

I plugged my NAS into the first open port on the back, watched the lights blink, and assumed the job was done. The shares mounted, nothing threw an error, and I moved on. However, I later found out the connection was crawling at a fraction of what the hardware could do, and nothing ever warned me. That's what makes this mistake so annoying. Any server or storage can look perfectly healthy while running slowly.

DVDs are a phenomenal piece of technology. I remember the very first DVDs I ever bought: Oingo Boingo: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre and Ghostbusters. One of those is pretty rare now. The other has been re-released so many times I lost count. But they were truly astonishing tech at the time.

I use OneNote for everything from saving article ideas to keeping track of things I need to do later. The problem? My brain treats half of these things like temporary files. I save a useful webpage, forget where I put it, and then waste time searching for it again. Brilliant system, right?

Ever used hidden developer options on your Android phone to unleash its true potential? You can do the same on your Google TV. These hidden settings unlock additional options that can significantly improve your smart TV experience. Since many smart TVs come with relatively limited RAM and internal storage, their interfaces can become sluggish over time.

Against my better judgment, I have spent a lot of time with Google's "ambitious" new computing platform, even outside my Lenovo Googlebook 15 review. Before I stepped away completely, a conversation with my colleague revealed that you can already find returned Googlebooks for hundreds of dollars off, and the poor critical and consumer reception indicates further discounts are inevitable. Each first-generation Googlebook actually boasts excellent hardware, making these laptops potentially unbeatable deals—if only they didn't run the buggy and incomplete Googlebook OS.

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There are a number of really interesting fixtures taking place in La Liga this weekend, but Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona is the standout. It's a battle between first and second place, with only two points separating them before they kick off. It's going to be a tense clash where anything could happen.

If you're interested in watching Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona?

Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga kicks off at 3 p.m. ET on Nov. 8. This fixture takes place at the Metropolitano Stadium.

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Everyone loves the look and feel of autumn, and what kid doesn't love jumping into a pile of leaves? But what about the poor person who had to rake all that leaf litter up in the first place? Outdoor maintenance in the fall is expensive, and often in ways that aren't immediately apparent.

Did you know that you can run a desktop-sized graphics card on a mini PC with a USB port? Well, you can. It’s actually easier than you might think with an eGPU. I took my RTX 3080 out of my desktop and plugged it into my mini PC and the performance improvement was pretty crazy. Here’s what it takes to plug a desktop graphics card into a USB port, and why you might want to do it.

Once you finally pick something to watch on Netflix after sifting through its extensive catalog, the last thing you want is to stream in low quality.

"Let’s go!" Druski yelled as he walked onto the Studio 8H stage late Nov. 7. The comedian, who's spent years making people laugh on their phones, was the first digital content creator to host Saturday Night Live, with The Strokes as musical guest (which Druski does a spot-on impression of, by the way).

How much of the comedy that got him there could he actually do on live TV? That was one of his first jokes.

Druski, whose real name is Drew Desbordes, opened his monologue by assuring the audience that SNL wouldn't water down his comedy, though he said he'd been asked to skip the swearing and not dress in whiteface (surprise, it didn't last very long). By his count, there went about half his material.

Anyone who's watched him play the boss of Coulda Been Records, a fictional label that holds chaotic auditions for aspiring artists, could see why he'd have a little trouble making that promise. Between those auditions and his dating show Coulda Been Love, Druski had amassed more than 6 million subscribers and nearly 2 billion views on YouTube.

Credit: Screenshot: SNL on YouTube

The comedian also joked that there might be some truth to the rumors that he was taking Ozempic, then took a moment to shout out his family in the audience — where one family member shouted for "more money!"

After reflecting on how much had happened over the past year, he asked the crowd how he could repay them. His answer was, apparently, to bring out Emma Stone. The Academy Award-winning actor (who has hosted SNL 5 times) is Druski's co-star in the upcoming baseball rom-com The Catch. He told the audience he actually plays her love interest, which was news to Stone — though she joked that it explained the way he'd been looking at her on set. Druski is reportedly playing Stone's security guard.

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Druski has had a busy week, besides studying up for Saturday night's appearance. On Nov. 2, Netflix announced a multiyear deal with the comedian and his production company. The first series, Collect & Praise, premieres Dec. 1 and gives his megachurch pastor character, already familiar to fans of his online sketches, a show of his own.

The Catch hits theaters May 21, 2027, which gives Druski a few more months to convince Emma Stone he's the man for her.

Every weekday morning I wake up to a daily brief prepared for me by Claude with what that day will hold. Tasks, calendar appointments, upcoming todos, even what emails need my attention, all waiting at my desk before I ever step into the office. This has changed how I work and improved my productivity, and here's exactly how you can steal it.

After a week of surprise election results, one question remained heading into Saturday night: How would Saturday Night Live open its first show since the midterms?

The Nov. 7 cold open started at a Democratic victory party, where Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman) and Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) happily took credit for the party’s wins. They were also excited about the younger Democrats headed to Congress...as long as nobody expected them to give up their jobs.

Before the party could go much further, James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump cut in, interrupting the duo to discuss the election results — a recurring bit in the SNL universe.

Credit: Screenshot: SNL on YouTube

Trump was impressed with himself for accepting the results and even put on a hard hat to talk about the White House ballroom, which was still what he cared about most, of course. But he was considerably less excited about working with millennials. He rattled off a few things he associated with the generation, including mason jar weddings and the sitcom New Girl, then got sidetracked explaining why he thought the show improved once Winston adopted a cat. In his view, giving Winston a pet finally gave the writers something to do with him. OK then?

Trump eventually circled back to the millennials he'd have to work with. When he got to Texas senator-elect James Talarico, he called him "Talafreako," a real nickname the real Trump had used on the campaign trail. That was Talarico's cue to walk out to cheers and offer a small correction: "That's Senator Talafreako," he said.

Days earlier, James Talarico had beaten Republican Ken Paxton to become the first Texas Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate since 1988. On Saturday, he used the moment to introduce himself to the audience, aside from being "the guy who's been texting you every day asking for $5."

Talarico also told Trump he thought they could work together and that people were ready for something different. It sounded like the start of a speech about reaching across the aisle, right up until he asked, "How many of these Trump sketches are they going to do?"

"Infinity," Trump said. The two managed to agree on one thing before handing the show over to host Druski and musical guest The Strokes, announcing together: "Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!"

I started 3D printing around a decade ago through my job at the time, working in a technology research division of a local university. Back then, there was no way I could afford a printer of my own, but I was happy to learn the ropes of 3D printing on my employer's dime.

Samsung's Galaxy Watches are among the most feature-loaded smartwatches out there, so much so that it could be difficult for users to explore every option. Hence, we've compiled a list of five hidden features every Galaxy Watch owner must know about.

You probably know that Android phones have a hidden Developer options menu that contains a bunch of settings allowing you to do all kinds of stuff. If you own a Samsung Galaxy device, the secret goodies don't end there.

Raspberry Pis are becoming more expensive than mini PCs if you want real compute power. But, Raspberry Pis still do something better than any mini PC can—GPIO (general purpose input/output). With GPIO headers, a Raspberry Pi can interact with real-world objects like garage door openers, sensors, and more, and it doesn’t need 16GB of RAM to do it.

Countless Windows habits have come and gone over the years. One of the most common ones, oddly enough, was reinstalling the entire operating system just to restore a PC's original performance.

Let this sink into your chest: The oxygen in every breath you take formed inside stars.

But new research from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows small galaxies hurl away most of the oxygen their stars produce. Astronomers studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies, which hold anywhere from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of stars. On average, those galaxies kept just 11 percent of the oxygen their stars made over time. The most efficient ones held onto about a quarter; the worst among them retained just 4 percent. Much larger galaxies tend to have three to four times as much, earlier studies have shown.

Exploding stars likely drove the rest away. When massive stars die in blasts called supernovas, they unleash winds strong enough to push gas clear out of a galaxy. Dwarf galaxies have weak gravity, so they struggle to hold onto that material.

Astronomers want to know where the oxygen that stars forge ends up, and how much of it a galaxy can store. A project called Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds, or GLOW, tracks that oxygen inside stars, through the gas between them, and out into the space between galaxies. Because oxygen outnumbers every element except hydrogen and helium, it makes a good tracer for how galaxies recycle matter broadly. Astronomers can measure it easily, and they know how stars make it.

"So, it's really for practical reasons that we've chosen oxygen," said Kristen Wingfield McQuinn, GLOW principal investigator at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, in a statement.

SEE ALSO: Oh, snap. Martian volcanoes might actually still be alive.

To tally the oxygen, the team used Hubble images sharp enough to pick out individual stars. Few dwarf galaxies sit close enough for that kind of detail.

Those images revealed each galaxy's history of star birth and, from that, how much oxygen it should have produced. The study appears in The Astrophysical Journal.

The research team then measured what remained. Nearly all of the oxygen was in each galaxy's gas, not in its stars. Data from radio and infrared telescopes filled in the rest of the picture.

Location also seems to matter. Galaxies in crowded areas and within about 3 million light-years of a large galaxy tended to keep more oxygen. Those farther from a big neighbor all kept less than 15 percent. Surrounding gas may push lost oxygen back into a galaxy, according to the paper, or the galaxy may scoop up oxygen its neighbors blasted away. The researchers caution that the pattern relies on only a handful of galaxies.

But oxygen's final destination remains unknown. Earlier studies found only a sliver of the oxygen these galaxies made — one to 7 percent — in the thin halo of hot gas that surrounds a galaxy. Even counting cooler gas, those halos likely hold at most about one-third of the oxygen the galaxies' stars made. Much of the rest probably escaped into intergalactic space, but scientists can't say for sure.

McQuinn, who also leads science operations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, plans to use the new observatory to find even smaller, fainter galaxies. She then plans to study their stars with Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope. Grace Telford, a University of Utah astronomer on the team, is using Hubble to zoom in on the massive stars that make oxygen and blast it out.

If most of that missing oxygen did escape, the universe's smallest galaxies may be its biggest oxygen spreaders, seeding space with the same element that fills your lungs.

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