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Dipole Antennas are one-half the length of the maximum wavelengths they will generate. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers There's an automation storm brewing. [The Guardian] How wearable tech is giving people a sixth sense Are health trackers imparting a permanent psycho-awareness of our bodies? [The Outline] What's Stopping Airlines From Making Your Seat More Miserable The industry has been squeezing you for years. But competition and the courts may soon provide relief. [Bloomberg] Is Now a Good Time to Buy a New NVIDIA or AMD Graphics Card? A few years ago, people were predicting the death of PC gaming as we know it. Those people are feasting on an abundance of humble pie, as PC games remain a cornerstone of the industry: digital delivery gives us more variety than ever before, and even the relatively niche market of performance gaming hardware has never been more healthy. But even the most humble of PC gamers needs a graphics card (well, sort of), and it’s one of the most frequent upgrades gamers make. But is now a good time to buy one? Read This Article → Quick Tip: You Can Swipe Cards Away in Android Auto to Dismiss Them Android Auto is a highly useful tool in the car. It provides music, navigation, traffic notifications, and quick access to calls and messages. The trouble is, some of these things generate cards on Auto’s home screen, and that can get annoying after a while. Read This Article → How to Allow (or Disallow) Direct Messaging from Everyone on Twitter By default, only people you follow can send you direct messages on Twitter. This is just one of the ways Twitter tries to keep harassment to a minimum. If you want your DMs to be open to anyone, however, you've got to enable a setting. Read This Article → What Is “Enhance Pointer Precision” in Windows? The “Enhance Pointer Precision” setting in Windows can actually make you less precise with your mouse in many situations. This poorly understood feature is enabled by default in Windows, and is a form of mouse acceleration. Read This Article → How to Manually and Automatically Update Your Synology NAS Packages Keeping the operating system of your Synology NAS up to date is only half of the smooth home server experience: the other half is keeping all your application packages up to date, too. Let’s look at how to manually update your packages as well as how to automate the process. Read This Article → How to Give Digital “eKeys” for Your Kwikset Kevo to Other Users The Kwikset Kevo allows you to lock and unlock your door without the need for actual keys. However, what if you want others to have access to your house, especially family members? Here’s how to give “eKeys” to other household members, as well as guests. Read This Article → Quit and Hide macOS Apps from the Command+Tab Interface Command+Tab is the main keyboard shortcut for switching applications in macOS. Hold Command then press Tab—you’ll see icons representing every application open on your Mac, as shown above. Press Tab again until you switch to the application you want. Read This Article → How to Delete Items From Your Amazon Browsing History Amazon uses your shopping and browsing history to give you recommendations and show you products that you might like. Unfortunately, that also means your recommendations get screwed up when you clicked on that link for a dumb product on Amazon you thought was funny. Here’s how to selectively remove items from your Amazon browsing history. Read This Article → How to Load DRM-Free eBooks Onto Your Kindle The Kindle is a fantastic reading device, but it’s almost entirely reliant upon Amazon’s closed retail system for buying books. That’s by design, of course—it’s an Amazon gadget, they want you to spend money on their store. But if you have a collection of eBooks obtained somewhere else, designed for cross-platform reading in another format without the typical DRM, it’s possible to get them loaded onto your Kindle fairly easily. Read This Article → What Is EA Access for Xbox One, and Is It Worth It? EA Access for Xbox One gives you access to more than 50 games, discounts, and trials of new EA games before they’re released. But is the monthly (or yearly) subscription fee really worth it? Read This Article → What Is Dynamic Range in Photography? In photography, the “dynamic range” is the difference between the darkest and lightest tones in an image, generally pure black and pure white. It's more often used to talk about the maximum dynamic range a camera is capable of. Read This Article → How to Use Pushbullet to Sync All Sorts of Stuff Between Your PC and Android Phone If you spend a lot of time at your computer, there’s a good chance you grab your phone somewhere between seven and 7,000 times per day to check notifications, reply to texts, and a lot more. Wouldn’t it be easier to do all this directly from your computer? Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Successful Time Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($12 Value) FREE For a Limited Time If you always feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything accomplished, this is the resource that can help change your workday and your life. Click here to download