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For better or worse, Google Messages has become the de facto text messaging app for Android. I happen to think it's pretty good, but there are a couple of big missing features. Thankfully, there's a third-party app that can fix one of them.

I miss the Windows of the '90s. Microsoft seemed to have a utility for everything, whether you needed to tweak Windows, troubleshoot a problem, automate a task, or simply do something Windows itself didn't make particularly easy. Plenty of those little tools have disappeared over the years, but some survived—and I'm still surprised by how useful they are.

I still believe in pilot episodes. Though the streaming model has changed the importance of pilot episodes, the first episode is still one of the biggest factors in determining whether a viewer will continue watching the show or abandon it. A common theme with the greatest shows of all time is that they have signature pilot episodes.

What do you want for Christmas? If your answer sounded anything like, "to get spooked by a new Robert Eggers film," you're in luck! The director's new film Werwulf hits theaters this December, and based on the latest trailer, it's going to be an unnerving ride.

Co-written by Eggers (Nosferatu) and his The Northman collaborator Sjón, Werwulf transports viewers to a village in 13th-century England that's been weathering mysterious attacks from a great beast.

Little do the villagers know that the beast may lurk among them, disguised in human form. That beast is none other than a local farmer (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who's been cursed with a horrifying case of lycanthropy. In the trailer above, a disembodied voice commands the farmer to "feed upon the flesh of mankind, and I will give thee back thy soul," suggesting that the werewolf's attacks are a twist form of self-preservation.

The farmer's time may soon be up, as a skilled hunter (Willem Dafoe) soon turns up in the village to exterminate the wolf. While the farmer's wife (Lily-Rose Depp) insists that her husband is a good man, will that be enough to save him?

Check out the full trailer above to get a frightening preview of what's to come, and feast your eyes on Eggers' trademark attention to period details. Just don't expect any footage of Taylor-Johnson in his wolf form. Some things might just have to wait until release.

Werwulf hits theaters Dec. 25.

September's Full Moon is almost here, and it's a special one. Known as the Harvest Moon, it's the Full Moon closest to the September equinox, which marks the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, the equinox fell on September 22, with the Harvest Moon following just a few days later.

Want to know more about September's Full Moon? Keep reading to find out when to see it and why it has this name.

The Full Moon will occur on Saturday, Sept. 26 Time and Date estimates it will peak at 12:49 p.m. ET.

Every Full Moon has a name, and sometimes it has more than one. September's Full Moon is known as the Harvest Moon, a name that's tied to the timing of the Full Moon rather than a particular plant or animal.

The Harvest Moon is the Full Moon closest to the September equinox, which falls around the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, September's Full Moon comes just a few days after the equinox. September's Full Moon is also known as the Corn Moon, a name linked to the time of year when crops are gathered, according to Royal Museums Greenwich.

The next Full Moon will take place on Oct. 25 or 26, depending on where you are in the world.

The Moon's appearance changes throughout its orbit around Earth as different amounts of its sunlit side become visible to us. This repeating cycle takes about 29.5 days and is divided into eight distinct phases. Although the same side of the Moon always faces Earth, its illuminated portion appears to grow and shrink as the Moon moves around our planet. The eight phases are:

• New Moon — The moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (so, we don't see anything).

• Waxing Crescent — A small sliver of light appears on the right side

• First Quarter — Half of the moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-moon.

• Waxing Gibbous — More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.

• Full Moon — The whole face of the moon is illuminated and fully visible.

• Waning Gibbous — The moon starts losing light on the right side

• Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) — Another half-moon, but now the left side is lit.

• Waning Crescent — A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.

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A 3D printer can open so many doors, especially if you’re a fan of spending your weekend flashing microcontrollers and soldering wires to contacts. While many projects benefit from a 3D printer, these absolutely require one.

While an impact wrench may never get as much love as some of your other handy power tools, like a trusty drill driver, having one on hand can be a game-changer when it comes to tough situations, like stuck-on bolts as you're trying to change your vehicle's flat tire.

This week, Marvel re-released Avengers: Endgame in theaters as Avengers: Endgame Encore, complete with four new scenes to get audiences ready for Avengers: Doomsday.

If you don't have the time to catch Avengers: Endgame Encore but want to make sure you're all caught up before Marvel's next massive crossover event, we've got you covered. From Loki's (Tom Hiddleston) return to more teases of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, here's what you need to know about Avengers: Endgame Encore's extra scenes.

Avengers: Endgame Encore is basically the same as the original Avengers: Endgame, with all the new scenes tacked on at the end. That starts with Endgame's original, well, endgame, which saw Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) sharing a sweet dance in the past.

In Avengers: Endgame Encore, the scene continues with a knock on the door. The unexpected guest turns out to be none other than Loki, spiffy as always in his Time Variance Authority (TVA) uniform. He offers Steve and Peggy his help, although the movie cuts to the credits before we can find out what that help entails — or why the pair even needs help in the first place. (Perhaps it has something to do with their child, revealed in an early Doomsday teaser.)

By the end of Loki Season 2, the trickster god wound up sitting on the multiversal throne, holding the entire multiverse together. Avengers: Endgame Encore is unclear about whether his visit to Steve and Peggy is him leaving his throne or an earlier mission from Loki's first two seasons.

From there, Avengers: Endgame Encore rolls into a series of new scenes that play during the credits. It wouldn't be a Marvel movie without them, right?

First up is a sequence involving Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), last seen in this summer's Spider-Man: Brand New Day. In that film, Jean Grey's (Sadie Sink) mind control prompted Bruce to Hulk out in a major way. Since then, he's been isolated in a facility two miles underground. According to a video diary he records, he's working on a new suppression serum. However, the video diary begins glitching when Doctor Doom breaks in. Runes begin popping up onscreen, the same ones that can be spotted on Doctor Doom's armor in other trailers.

Doctor Doom tells Bruce he's "here to collect you," and the last thing we hear from Bruce is the roar of the Hulk. Between that and some ominous green runes on the floor, it's not looking good for Bruce. Ruffalo was not on the main cast list for Doomsday, so this scene might explain his absence, or hint at him being under Doctor Doom's control down the line.

The next end-credits scene zips over to TVA headquarters, where characters like Mobius (Owen Wilson), Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan), and Casey (Eugene Cordero) monitor some frightening incursions. What at first appears to be the collision of two alternate Earths soon devolves into the collision of thousands of universes.

"The multiverse is collapsing," Ouroboros says.

Isn't it always? Yet this sequence could explain why the Fantastic Four's universe, Fox's X-Men's universe, and the MCU's main universe all collide in Doomsday.

At the very, very end of Avengers: Endgame Encore's credits, you'll find one last teaser for Doomsday. This one starts in a familiar way: with the sound of a hammer striking metal. It's the same sound that closed out Avengers: Endgame's original release, a nod to Tony Stark (Downey Jr) forging his first suit of armor. In Avengers: Endgame Encore, the sound gets a whole new context. In quick flashes, we see Doctor Doom forge his mask and put it on.

The scene is a clever nod to Downey Jr.'s dual casting, suggesting that Victor Von Doom may have had a trajectory parallel to Tony Stark's. Did he, like Tony, make that mask in a cave? With a box of scraps? We'll have to wait until December to find out, but until then, these scenes have given us quite a bit to puzzle over.

Avengers: Endgame Encore is now in theaters. Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters Dec. 18.

Tasker has been around for more than a decade, and the project is still going strong with an active developer and an ever-growing community. No other app matches its flexibility or power. And ten years later, it remains the gold standard for automation on Android.

An old, slow laptop might seem essentially useless. I know I have a drawer that's essentially a laptop graveyard: old laptops that I no longer use or which have been gifted to me ages ago. But some of my old laptops have come in handy over the years.

In my home, Roku is the main streaming platform. I have several Roku televisions and a couple of streaming sticks. Needless to say, I spend a lot of time in the Roku interface. One of the reasons I chose Roku was because it seemed easy to use. The remote is the same on every TV, and even the least tech-savvy people in my home have no problem using it. However, recent changes have started to make my Roku Home screen feel too busy.

Internet Explorer's last foothold on modern Windows now has an expiration date.

Microsoft is reminding IT administrators that Internet Explorer mode in its Edge browser, the only remaining way to run IE's rendering engine on current versions of Windows, will be supported through at least the end of 2029, according to gHacks Tech News. The notice, posted in the Microsoft 365 admin center under message ID MC1473151, tells organizations that still depend on IE-only applications to start planning their migrations now.

According to gHacks, the company has committed to announcing an end-of-support date at least a year before it takes effect. The early warning is to give admins time to rebuild or replace internal software, which can take years.

For context, IE mode is a compatibility feature inside Edge. Edge is built on Google's open-source Chromium engine, but IE mode lets it load pages with Trident, the older engine that powered Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft first flagged the mode's eventual retirement in 2021, according to gHacks.

Organizations with no IE dependencies don't need to take any action. For companies that still depend on it, Microsoft's guidance is to identify what depends on IE mode and update or replace it.

The notice is the latest step in a long wind-down. Microsoft officially retired the standalone Internet Explorer 11 browser in June 2022, 26 years after the browser shipped with early versions of Windows. At that point, Microsoft began steering anyone who tried to open IE toward Edge. Most users had already left. By the time of its retirement, IE held less than 1 percent of the browser market, according to StatCounter data at the time.

Do you envy the Apple ecosystem and wish you had something similar between your Windows PC and Android phone? Or maybe you’ve wanted your phone to show up as a window on your desktop, so you can poke at it with your mouse and type on it with your keyboard instead of picking it up every two minutes? If so, boy, do I have the perfect app for you — and yes, it’s completely free and open source.

Many ESP32 boards come with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a microphone, and Thread or Zigbee support and are very affordable. That makes them great candidates for an experimental DIY smart home device—at worst, you have a board and a failed project that can be used later.

Linux might not be for everyone, but it could be exactly what you’re looking for. If your computing habits align with Linux’s unique strengths, it might be the perfect operating system for you—without you even realizing it. Here are the signs!

Smartphones obviously have tons of sensors underneath the shiny surface. Most of them are extremely common, but one particular sensor is very rare. It's super useful for people who do 3D printing, but it can't be found in modern Android phones anymore.

MacBooks are renowned for their slimline designs and unrivaled power and efficiency. They're among the best laptops you can get, but they have one flaw that can make them frustrating to use. Their slim and lightweight design comes at the cost of connectivity ports. For example, a MacBook Air has a pair of USB-C ports that might be fine for everyday tasks, but they aren't ideal for power users who want to connect memory cards or HDMI monitors.

Bambu Lab represents both ends of the 3D printing spectrum. On the one hand, it’s an incredibly successful company that took the world by storm by making 3D printing easy, accessible, and relatively cheap. On the other hand, it’s a brand that’s taken pages from the Apple and Nintendo corporate playbooks, locking down its ecosystem and throwing its legal weight around.

An average Ubuntu or Fedora installation can easily reach 15GB before you even start doing anything. Alpine Linux, which is famously tiny, usually weighs in at a few hundred megabytes.

Offers like 20TB of cloud storage for a few hundred dollars keep circulating on Reddit, paid once and kept for life. They aren't scams, strictly speaking, but "for life" means the company's life, not yours. Here's why the deals exist and what to do instead.