Microsoft’s Windows 10 is already installed on tens of millions of computers, but the free upgrade isn’t hassle-free. There are various issues and bugs that Microsoft has either fixed or needs to address in following updates, and then there are privacy worries that come with the free operating system upgrade. One particular problem for existing Windows 10 users appears to be the System process that can eat a lot of RAM. Luckily, this isn’t a bug, but a new feature of Windows 10 that should improve your overall experience. However, there are ways of fixing this issue if you’re worried about it.

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A few days ago, Jorg Sprave — who runs a popular YouTube channel you may have heard of — showed off a contraption that you might want to do your best to steer clear of. Sprave, who lives in Germany, somehow decided that it’d be a grand idea to to attach four scalpels to a Frisbee, effectively creating a terrifying flying device in the process. Fittingly, he calls it the Scalpel Blade Frisbee.

Though it should go without saying, do not try this at home! Actually, now that I think about it, you probably don’t want to try this anywhere. But Sprave is a unique fellow — as you’ll see in the video below — and, well, he decided to proceed full steam ahead.

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We were going to share our secrets for becoming an actual ninja, but then we thought, mastering Excel and using it to boost your career would be pretty cool too, right? Right. To that end, we’re offering a three-course Microsoft Excel Immersion package that’ll take you from Excel novice to ninja for just $29 at the BGR Store.

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One obvious reason that Windows 8 was such a disaster for Microsoft was that a lot of longtime Windows users absolutely hated it. To express their frustrations with Windows 8, many of these users either switched back to Windows 7 or changed computing platforms all together by switching to Macs. One such person was Vivek Wadhwa, the director of research at Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke, who fled Windows 8 in terror for Apple before giving Microsoft another shot with Windows 10.

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In late July, a commercial Boeing 777 made an insane landing in a 75mph windstorm, and the intense experience was recorded on video. A few days later, an Airbus A340 made a similar death-defying landing in Argentina and the whole thing was once again caught on video.

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Google’s 2015 Nexus devices are far from being best-kept secrets. Many sources have so far suggested that Google will have two new Nexus phones in its lineup this year. The smartphones are entirely new handsets, featuring brand-new hardware features that the company unveiled with Android Marshmallow earlier this year, including fingerprint sensors and USB Type-C ports. Leaked images have already offered us a sneak preview of what Google’s next Nexuses will look like, and now a series of videos is offering us renders of the device that are based on its allegedly leaked schematics.

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There are a few easy upgrades that can be made to any laptop that will give it an instant performance boost. Replacing old RAM chips with newer, faster RAM is one example, and it’s always a good idea if you’re looking to speed up an older laptop. Another example is replacing an old spinning hard drive with a new SSD drive, and sometimes it can have an even bigger impact than new RAM.

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Fans of The Walking Dead are going to have to wait a couple more months for the sixth season of the gruesome drama, but this weekend marks the beginning of a new show set inside the same universe. Fear the Walking Dead is a spinoff of the original show, set in Los Angeles before events of The Walking Dead.

The first episode premieres on Sunday, but you can watch the opening scene right now.

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Would you vote for Deez Nuts? That’s the question polling firm Public Policy Polling recently asked voters in North Carolina and it found that 9% of them would choose Deez Nuts over Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But who is Deez Nuts?

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Have you ever received that dreaded text message from your wireless provider that you’ve reached 90% of your data cap before the end of the month? It’s a weird feeling, being scolded by your smartphone, but it’s certainly better than the alternative of the providers just collecting their overage fees at the end of the month.

Still, wouldn’t it be nice to have more control over the data you use when you’re away from a Wi-Fi connection?

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