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How to Get Alexa to Read Your Emails, and Tell You If 'That' Message Has Arrived Amazon rolled out a new email-reading feature to its virtual assistant Monday that allows it to read a summary of your new and important messages from the last 24 hours. When it does, you can then opt to read, reply to, delete, or archive those messages, all without powering on your actual computer.

How to Stop Hating the Holiday Season We are deep in what may be the most stressful time of the year—and that’s for people who like the holidays. The travel, the expense, the family dynamics: end of the year celebrations can make a Grinch out of anyone. Here’s how you can get into the holiday spirit without being taught a lesson by various ghosts.

Get a Dozen Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for $1 on Wednesday Krispy Kreme is making it a little easier to spread the holiday cheer around your office tomorrow, by offering a dozen of its original glazed doughnuts for just a buck.

The Best Videos of 2018 Videos! They’re like articles that come alive. Everyone loves ‘em, and we made a whole bunch this year. These are our best videos from 2018.

How Experts Spot Forged Paintings Insane prices in the art market make art forgery a potentially high-profit business. So how do art buyers tell real undiscovered artworks from fakes? To analyze and identify forgeries, experts must apply their knowledge of art history, plus the science behind the materials and techniques of artists. In the video above, forensic scientist Thiago Piwowarczyk and art historian Jeffrey Taylor show Wired how they identified a forgery of Jackson Pollack’s drip paintings (which are actually famously hard to forge).

Secure Windows 10 by Disabling Its Password Recovery Questions Password-recovery questions have been a part of Windows 10 for more than a year now, but you’ll never know they exist if you sign into your operating system using a Microsoft account. Use a local account when you’re first installing Windows, however, and you’ll be prompted to create three security questions that you can use to reset your password and log into your account—should you ever forget your credentials.

How to Survive Nuclear Fallout It happened. Bright, white light flashed before your eyes, the power of the sun licked your skin, and you felt a shock wave of dust and debris plow through the city you call home. You’re one of the lucky ones, for now, but your struggle isn’t over yet—not even close.

How to Find Love, With Matchmaker Dr. Frankie Bashan How do we even begin to find true love in a messy world of online dating, ghosting, and benching? Matchmaker Dr. Frankie Bashan tells us why people are using real-live intermediaries like herself to get dates. Etiquette expert Daniel Post Senning takes on the intricacies of Tinder etiquette. And Lifehacker’s food editor Claire Lower mixes up a sexy three-ingredient cocktail.

How to Get Your Workaholic Spouse Back There are many demands on our time, especially after we’re partnered, with kids, or other family obligations. In a perfect world, it would be easy to prioritize our relationships. For many, getting away from work to be with family is not just difficult; work is an addiction.

The Way You Hold Your Steering Wheel Could Seriously Injure You in a Crash Last year I learned to drive again after a 10-year break. I was surprised how dramatically cars had evolved in that period; I learned to be way lighter on the gas and brake, and whenever I used a rear-view camera to park, I felt like I was cheating. I didn’t learn this: it’s no longer ideal to hold your steering wheel at “10 and 2.” According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in a crash you could seriously injure your hands by driving in this position.

It's Time to Check Which Apps Are Tracking Your Location Guess what? A bunch of apps like knowing where you are, so that their developers can then take that data, package it up for various advertising companies, and make a quick buck off of your precise whereabouts—including where you go and how long you spend there.

How to See This Year's 'Christmas Comet' and Geminid Meteor Shower If you can brave the cold long enough to find a clear patch of night sky, you can watch two bright astronomical phenomena this December: the 46P/Wirtanen “Christmas comet” and the Geminid meteor shower.

Tell Us Your Best Beijing Travel Tips Hack Your City is back! One thing I love about doing this column is learning just how slippery it is to define a “city.” The political borders never match up exactly with the popular definition. Dallas and Fort Worth, for instance, are two distinct cities treated as one megalopolis; Staten Island may be a full legal borough of New York City, but geographically and culturally, it’s a New Jersey suburb. Megacities particularly tend to form complicated borders as they subsume other towns and cities in sometimes hostile takeovers. China’s capital Beijing is one of those megacities, with over 20 million residents (and another four million depending on how you’re counting), spread over six thousand square miles. There’s more to do in Beijing than could ever be done. But what’s the very best?

What's Coming and Going From Netflix the Week of December 10, 2018 Every single goddamn day for the past year I have entered the lottery to win the privilege of paying $75 for one ticket to see Springsteen on Broadway, and every single day for the past year I have lost that effing lottery. The only other way to score seats has been to pony up $2,000 per ticket from those loathsome scalpers known as StubHub. Well screw them, and screw the lottery, and the Walter Kerr Theater, and all the people whose lives were forever changed for having seen the show, because Springsteen on Broadway is coming to Netflix directly following the final performance on Sunday night. Springsteen on the Couch and not at all bitter about it.

How to Work From Home Without Falling Into a Pit of Despair Much to my surprise and my roommates’ consternation, I have somehow managed to work from home for an entire year. There are a lot of upsides to leading a laissez-faire life of couch-writing. I never have to commute, which is a true blessing, considering how often all the New York City subways experience systemwide meltdowns during rush hour. I rarely put on real pants. I can make doctor’s appointments in the middle of the day, or at least I could if I had health insurance that covered a doctor’s appointment.

How to Turn on Skype's New Real-Time Captioning Feature If you’re deaf or hard of hearing, then placing or being part of a Skype call can be a complicated affair. This week, Microsoft rolled out a feature to make things a little easier: captions and subtitles.

Make Sure You Didn't Download One of These Malicious Apps From Google Play If you recently downloaded a racing game from Google Play, you might want to check and make sure it isn’t actually malware.

Should You Switch to Google Fi on the iPhone?Earlier this week, Google announced that its cellular service provider division “Project Fi” has graduated from beta “project” to full-fledged product Google Fi. The name change is fine, but what’s really interesting and exciting about the whole thing is that, as part of the shift, Google Fi now officially supports the iPhone.

How to See What Twitter Thinks Your Interests Are Today I learned that Twitter thinks I’m interested in literature, beer, hip-hop, and I really like my friends Ina and Harry (I’m double interested in both of them for some reason). When it comes to me, Twitter thinks I’m known for being a technology journalist, as well as “other.” I’ve never been so proud!

How to Change Alexa's Wake Word to Something Other Than 'Alexa'If you have an Amazon Echo device, then you’ve likely gotten pretty used to saying “Alexa” whenever you want it to do something.