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If you happened to notice a bunch of your Android apps crashing yesterday, you’re not alone. An issue with Android’s System Webview component caused a bit of grief, but it’s nothing to be too worried about. In fact, Google has already prepped a fix, and you’ll want to take advantage of it right away, lest you…Read more...

This past year, racial injustices committed against Black Americans and Asian Americans have reached new heights. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen 149% since the pandemic began. At the same time, worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police further highlighted the long history of…Read more...

When we want to convey a difficult or abstract concept to our kids, whether it be empathy, racism, anxiety, or bullying, we often turn to children’s books for help. These books can help us introduce topics and ideas we otherwise struggle to put into our own words, and that is especially true when we have to help our…Read more...

I have gotten more discerning about most things as I age, but the longer I am alive, the less picky I am about peels. Unlike my seven-year-old self, who wouldn’t eat an apple unless it was peeled, cored, and cut into segments, I’m now a big fan of nature’s edible wrapping paper. (The exception, oddly enough, is bell…Read more...

Google recently added Live Captions to the desktop version of Chrome. With Live Captions enabled, Chrome auto-transcribes any audio playing in the browser, even if the sound is muted.

Spring is here! The birds are singing, flowers blooming, and uh, it rains more. What a season! Sadly, covid-19 hasn’t gone anywhere. So depending on where you live you might still be stuck inside. Well, at least you’ll have games like Monster Hunter Rise, Outriders, and Mass Effect Legendary Edition to play while you…Read more...

When I was 21, fresh out of college and navigating California’s broken job market in the pits of the Great Recession, I got a public radio internship and was overjoyed.

When you buy food in the grocery store, you do so with the confidence that it has been inspected, and is therefore probably safe for you to eat. Of course, food production and distribution involves many different steps—each with their own potential for error—so there’s always the chance that something will slip…Read more...

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If your lender has allowed you to defer payment on your credit card, car loan, or mortgage payments during the pandemic, you’ll want to check your credit reports for errors more frequently, perhaps once a month. Lenders are increasingly mislabelling accounts as late or delinquent, and it can cause a lot of damage to…Read more...

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys the agony of rogue-like progression and city-building (of sorts), you owe it to yourself to give Loop Hero a shot. Heck, you can even still get your hands on the Loop Hero demo—long since removed from Steam, but re-downloadable from this handy website.Read more...

There are lots of inspiring TED Talks out there for adults—but if we’re not sharing some of them with our kids, they’re missing out on all the entertainment, context, knowledge, and motivation so many of them can provide. Some TED Talks are given by kids or specifically for kids, and that’s great. However, that isn’t…Read more...

My father has many chickens, all of them named after his favorite church ladies, and those hens have been laying. This means I have been on the receiving end of steady stream of beautiful fresh eggs with the most intensely colored, golden yolks, and they have ruined me for grocery store eggs.Read more...

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If you’ve ever made gravy, or any sauce or similar food to which a thickening agent is added, you know that it acts quite differently once you take it out of a hot, simmering pot and get it on a plate. Gravy, jams, and many sauces all thicken as they cool, and it can be hard to tell when they’re “done” while they’re…Read more...

Microdosing—the act of taking small amounts of usually psychedelic drugs—has been popular with a certain type of person looking for more productivity than what standard life hacks like caffeine and time management can provide. Whether it works is still unknown, but a new study suggests that the vaunted benefits may…Read more...

If you applied to a dream school, but landed on the waiting list, it can feel like all hope is lost. In a sense, it might feel worse than being rejected; you technically haven’t been rejected, and the university appears to be somewhat interested in you, at least. But your place on the waiting list remains a glaring…Read more...

In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a hand-drawn movie has claimed the award only once—Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away. From Shrek to Wall-e to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, every other winner save…Read more...

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Microsoft is adding Auto HDR to Windows 10. The new setting, borrowed from the Xbox Series X/S, adds HDR (High-Dynamic Range) color and brightness levels to DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games that otherwise only have SDR (standard dynamic range). Microsoft notes its Auto HDR tech won’t match native HDR visuals, but using…Read more...

The man who killed eight people, six of them Asian-American women, at spas in Atlanta told police he had a “sexual addiction.” Other men have said the same after committing rapes or other crimes, but sex addiction is not recognized as a real disorder by most professionals and it certainly does not excuse a person from…Read more...

As a pet owner, you’ve likely come home or woken up to find some evidence of late-night shenanigans around your living space. Fortunately, though, if you’d like to set up some quick surveillance for a particular area (maybe you have nosy roommates, or you’re going out of town and are feeling paranoid), you can check…Read more...

The Department of Education announced that they will forgive approximately $1 billion in student loan debt for borrowers who have been misled or scammed. The move loosens Trump-era loan restrictions for this type of claim, and includes full forgiveness for previously approved claims that received less than a full loan…Read more...

At this point, it can be easy to ignore headlines on the latest studies claiming that a particular food is “bad” for you—or, conversely, has been canonized as a “superfood.” Most articles on research demonizing a certain kind of food typically follow a pattern: identifying a particular condition everyone’s afraid of,…Read more...

Last night I was bouncing around through various social media apps when I saw a post from my friend Danielle that advised, “don’t sleep on air fried chickpeas.” I made a note of it, then went to sleep, which was the exact opposite of what Danielle had instructed me to do.Read more...

A staff writer for The Atlantic took to Twitter over the weekend to ask, “When a little child asks you what you’re drinking and it’s definitely wine, what do you say?” The response was quick and fairly universal: “I say it’s ‘wine,’” loads of people replied, with some adding that wine belongs in the category of…Read more...

Do you ever find yourself in an anxiety spiral, ruminating over things that stress you out? Have you ever replayed that embarrassing interaction or fight with your partner over and over?Read more...

Even those who had a relatively healthy relationship with technology prior to the pandemic may now find themselves in a different position—one where they’re interacting with some type of screen during nearly all of their waking hours. Between the Zoom meetings, virtual visits, your actual job, and using TV as a way…Read more...

Cal Newport is tired of the technological inundation that comes with the modern working world. To him, a deluge of Slack notifications, emails, meeting alerts, text messages—all of the things that comprise the basis of contemporary office communication are also, ironically, an impediment to working better and more…Read more...

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iOS 14.5 should be right around the corner, judging by the four developer betas we’re at right now. At this point, I wouldn’t begrudge anyone who wanted to give the updated operating system a try on their primary phone (so long as you’re going for the likely-more-stable public beta.) But there’s one little change to…Read more...

In case “not getting a deadly virus” isn’t enough of a reason to offer up your arm for a couple of doses of the vaccine, Krispy Kreme wants to give you a little extra encouragement—in the form of free doughnuts all year.Read more...

If your pet is a healthy weight, busting out the kitchen scale to measure their meals might seem unnecessary or even obsessive, especially when a simple scoop measure works fine. But scales work better. They make it easy to give your pet the right amount of food every single time, which is as good for you as it is for…Read more...

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A sale on outdoor power tools and on a 40-pack of KN95 Masks lead Sunday’s best deals.

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Have you ever watched a movie and found yourself drawn to the aesthetic of a certain set or scene—even if you didn’t really care for the film itself? If so, you’re not alone. Kalki Janardhanan, a film enthusiast, runs an Instagram account called Color Palette Cinema, in which he takes a particular movie scene and…Read more...

Gardening and various forms of mindfulness have been getting more attention over the past year, thanks to (wait for it) the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, for many people, gardening itself is a form of mindfulness, giving them a chance to press pause on everything else, and focus on the here-and-now of what’s happening…Read more...

Whether or not you have any interest in college basketball, you may be interested in following at least some of the results of this year’s tournament. That’s because every time a March Madness game goes into overtime, Buffalo Wild Wings is giving away free wings. Here’s what to know about this sporty promotion and how…Read more...

DIY projects involving woodworking can be challenging (depending on your skill level), but also pretty rewarding—resulting in an actual physical thing you made yourself. But all that cutting, screwing, sawing, sanding and drilling can also make something else: a giant mess.Read more...

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Given all the quarancleaning that has been going on over the past year while we were stuck at home without much else to do, your 2021 spring cleaning may be a light lift. On the other hand, you also may have gone a little overboard with online shopping this year—both out of necessity and as a stress reliever—and…Read more...

We did it: we made it through the long COVID winter. And now that COVID spring is here, we’re starting to see some changes. It’s getting a little warmer outside, spring flowers are starting to bloom, and fire ant season is upon us. Along with the fall, spring is the time when those tiny, pain-inducing pests are the…Read more...

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If you live in Indiana, western Ohio, eastern Pennsylvania, or roughly anywhere around the D.C. area, get ready for a rare and bizarre phenomenon this spring: the emergence of Brood X cicadas, which have been biding their time underground for the past 17 years.

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A lot of people aren’t comfortable haggling, but there’s really no need to be intimidated—the best case scenario is that you’ll save money, and the worst-case scenario is that you’ll be told “no,” which merely confirms the seller’s stated price. To help you land a bargain, here are some common tips to keep in mind…Read more...

The US government maintains a database called VAERS, to which anybody can file a report if they think something bad happened to them after receiving a vaccine. It’s an important tool in keeping tabs on vaccine safety, but it’s also being mined by anti-vaccine activists to make vaccines seem scarier than they are.Read more...

I’m starting to side with the Lifehacker commenters on this one: Drinking an arbitrary amount of water each day (one gallon, in this case) feels like scientific mumbo-jumbo, a benchmark that looks good on paper but one whose necessity varies wildly with each person—and, of course, with your diet, since you get water…Read more...

This morning I woke up in a sleeplike fog. Scratching my head as to why, I looked toward the window and realized I’d left it open overnight. As anyone with allergies knows, in the spring, this is a dire mistake. Fortunately, I’d been amassing air purifiers in our apartment for months. I have five in total, two of…Read more...