What Is a "Precision Touchpad" on Windows PCs?

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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. Emotions drive stronger memories of later, unemotional events fMRI study shows clear link between emotions, remembering events soon after. [ArsTechnica] A theory that challenges Newton's and Einstein's gravity and nixes dark matter passed its first test Margot Brouwer of Leiden University is brave—and you need to be, if you're challenging Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton in one fell swoop. [Quartz] We Need to Teach Kids How to Be Skeptical of the Internet A Stanford study of thousands of middle school, high school, and college aged students reveals that most of them can't tell the difference between real journalism and fake news sites--and that's awful for all of us. [Motherboard] George Lucas Can't Give His $1.5 Billion Museum Away What does the creator of Star Wars have to do to get a little gratitude? [Bloomberg] How to Display a Message During Windows Startup If you use a company-owned PC, you may have seen a legal notice displayed before you sign in to Windows. Here’s how you can do the same thing on your own PC and display a message with any text you want. Read This Article → Is Snapchat Really Deleting My Snaps? Snapchat is a chat app and social network that's super popular with millennials and teens. It's main feature is that every "Snap" (aka photo or video) is automatically deleted after a certain amount of time. Read This Article → What Is a “Precision Touchpad” on Windows PCs? Windows PCs have historically had worse touchpads than Macs. Microsoft is trying to fix this problem with “precision touchpads”, but not every PC manufacturer is on board. Some PCs ship with precision touchpads, but others include older, traditional technology instead. Read This Article → Is It Better to Purchase Single Keys or Replace an Entire Keyboard? While we do what we can to protect our laptops, there are times when the keyboards get damaged no matter what precautions we take. Is it better to only replace the keys you need or the entire keyboard? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice regarding a reader’s keyboard woes. Read This Article → How to Configure Your Pen and Its Buttons on Windows 10 Windows 10 gained a new pen settings panel with the Anniversary Update. If your device has a pen or another type of stylus, you can customize exactly how it works and what its buttons do from the Settings window. Read This Article → How to Add Your Own Custom “Start” Menu to the macOS Dock If Windows 8 taught us (and Microsoft) anything, it’s that users really love the Start menu. If you’re switching to the Mac, you might wonder why macOS doesn’t offer one, or really anything quite like one. Read This Article → How to Turn Your Computer Screen Into an Animated GIF If you’ve ever wondered how to record your computer screen and then turn it into an animated GIF, then wonder no more. Here’s everything you need to know about creating GIF screencasts on Windows and Mac. Read This Article → How to Use the Built-in Calculator in LibreOffice Writer If you're working in a LibreOffice Writer document, and need to do some simple calculations, instead of opening the Windows Calculator, you can perform the calculations directly in Writer. Read This Article → How to Create a Plain Text List of All Windows User Accounts and Their Settings You can always look up user accounts on a Windows system using the settings interface, but if you want to save a nice, printer-friendly file with that info, it’s easiest to turn to the Command Prompt. Read This Article → How to Take Good Pictures of Your Pets With that said, let's look at how you can suffer through and take good pictures of your pets (or at least, try to). Read This Article → The Downsides of Open Source Software CyanogenMod is dead, killed by parent company Cyanogen. The community is attempting to pick up the pieces and create a new project, LineageOS, based on the code. But it’s a reminder that open source software isn’t all sunshine, rainbows, and stability: in fact, it can often be very messy. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Microsoft Office 2016 -- Free Reference Card Kit This Microsoft Office 2016 reference kits includes 5 individual reference cards providing shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the most popular office productivity suite in the world. Click here to download