| The practice of placing perfume counters close to the front of department stores started with department store pioneer Harry Selfridge; he placed the counter at the front to better entice customers into buying perfume and it had the added benefit of masking the smell of manure and exhaust coming in from the street.  | |
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Today's Tech Term
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| Sniping (short for Auction Sniping) is the practice of entering a higher bid at the last possible moment in timed online auctions. This is done in order to prevent other bidders from having an opportunity to place counter-bids and win the auction. | |
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| The big push for consumer 3D TVs is mostly over, and most manufacturers are pushing other technologies like 4K, quantum dot, and even questionable curved displays. But 3D TV could yet make a comeback — maybe. | |
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| Well, it’s noon and your phone’s battery is already at 37 percent. There are ways to avert this disaster, adding more battery capacity to your favorite smartphone. | |
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| We were setting up a new Minecraft server at HTG headquarters to play the awesome Captive Minecraft survival mode game (which uses vanilla Minecraft, no mods required), when we realized we didn’t have an article about how to find your saved games folder. | |
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