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Eight Sleep’s Pro Pro Cover and Sabrent SSDs lead Wednesday’s best deals.

One day, a few years ago, I mentioned to my mother-in-law that she always seemed annoyed in text messages. “What? Why?” she asked, clearly surprised.Read more...

If you love staring at the bright, white backgrounds in your various devices’ operating systems, this article is not for you. I can’t stand it, personally. I stare at enough screens during the day that switching over to dark mode is an almost indescribable relief on my eyes. Plus, it’s super goth. Here’s how to set up…Read more...

As a Climate Person, I strongly believe we urgently need to electrify everything and ditch natural gas completely. The problem is, I love my gas stove. I find the heat from an electric stove’s coils basically impossible to control—last time I used one, I burned a beautiful pan sauce to a brown crisp.Read more...

The pandemic makes it challenging to plan anything ahead of time, including voting. Maybe you previously thought you would be out of town on November 3, but now your trip is cancelled and you want to vote in person. Or perhaps you got caught up in all the excitement surrounding requesting a mail-in ballot a few months…Read more...

Some of us love traveling or spending time with family, friends, and co-workers during the holidays. Some us do not. For those of us in the latter category, I have great news: you have the perfect built-in excuse to opt out of any and all holiday plans you do not wish to attend. (In case you don’t know which excuse I…Read more...

A technical preview of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will roll out to free and premium users in the next Windows, Mac, and Android app updates, with iOS and iPad soon to follow. Enabling Zoom’s E2EE makes video calls much more secure, but there’s a catch: Zoom’s E2EE disables several other features, including…Read more...

For many young couples with kids and bills to pay, a common response to estate planning is “what estate?” Yet an important aspect of having a will—one that couples tend to overlook—is choosing a guardian. Failing to choose a guardian could mean chaos after your death, with the potential scenario of your child being…Read more...

YouTube’s app on Android and iOS is getting some big updates to its video controls, including new gestures and rearranged overlay menus with shortcuts for toggling full-screen mode on and off, as well as other features. Once they’re available for you, here’s how you to find and take full advantage of them.Read more...

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If you’ve ever tried to hit the gym after a heavy meal, you probably know that it doesn’t feel great and you probably wish you’d just skipped the pre-workout snack. But that doesn’t mean you should workout on a totally empty stomach. Here’s why you’re probably better off fueling up before you go for a run or crank out…Read more...

This month—the month of Halloween—has been chock full of hand wringing and fretting, some of it centered around trick-or-treating and the children. People are (rightly) concerned about handing candy to kids in the safest way possible, but they’re also worried about the lasting trauma that a lack of trick-or-treating…Read more...

We’ve all have to make judgment calls about what activities we can participate in these days, and which ones we should decline. But a new app makes those decisions more straightforward: Whether it’s shopping in a store, partying with friends, or working out, MyCovidRisk helps you figure out just how likely you’ll be…Read more...

I generally don’t think much of smartphone payment plans. Unless you score a sweet deal from the carrier, they might not save you any money. And if you’re stuck in a contract without an early payout option, you’ll be saddled with the device until it’s paid off, whether or not you still want it. You won’t even be able…Read more...

Working moms have heard it all before: “Be flexible. Are you reaching out to your support network? Do you make and freeze healthy meals in advance? Have you tried using a spreadsheet to stay organized?” We’re made to feel that every time we fall short in achieving the mythical work-life balance, it’s because of…Read more...

With record numbers opting to vote by mail in the upcoming election, the process of counting the ballots is going to look a little different this year. And even before that, there’s also the chance that some ballots could be rejected for having errors or omissions.

It’s hard to keep track of all the things kids are missing out on right now by learning from home all (or most) of the time, from the social to the educational. One thing you might not have thought of, though, particularly for little kids: They’re not practicing all those regular fire drills.Read more...

Depending on how much you pay for your plan, your Netflix account can only be used by so many people at once. Exes, old roommates, or thoughtless siblings—anyone you’ve unwisely trusted with your password—might be mooching off the account you pay good money for, but it’s not too difficult to find out if they are.

There’s an outbreak of listeriosis linked to deli meat, the CDC says. The exact source has not been tracked down, but they say if you are pregnant, over 65, or have a weakened immune system, to not eat deli meat or take extra precautions.Read more...

PlayStation 4 owners know the pain. You unbox your new console, you plug it into your TV, you go to turn it on, and, wait, where’s the power button? The PlayStation 5’s power button isn’t quite as obscure, but it’s not much better. See above for a closer look.

There are two types of people in this world: people who don’t remember their college grade point average, and nerds. I mean, I guess there is a third category of former nerds who are bitter about their GPA and have thus banished it from their consciousness (me). But my point is that a lot of people don’t know theirs,…Read more...

For the most part, our society has a very narrow definition and shallow understanding of grief. We know that when someone close to us dies, we’re supposed to feel sad, spend a few days wearing black and eating casseroles while in mourning, and then resume our normal lives as if nothing happened.

We’re all accustomed to taking screenshots on our Android phones, Apple devices, and computers, but you can also take screenshots on your smart TV or streaming device. It’s just more complicated, and it depends what you’re taking a screenshot of in the first place.Read more...

Can you transfer your home loan to another person? Doing so certainly could be convenient: if you’re selling your home, the buyer could just take on your mortgage as part of the deal, avoiding the hassle of a new loan application, not to mention the extra closing costs. As nice as that sounds, mortgage transfers are…Read more...

Apple’s AirPods Pro and Animal Crossing for Switch with a bonus Bell Bag lead Tuesday’s best deals.

Introducing the “Hack-O’-Lantern,” the easiest gourd-based decoration you can create, this or any Halloween.Read more...

I don’t usually like to take the easy parenting road by, say, tricking children or lying to them. Also, I don’t think you teach your kids not to do the thing you don’t want them to do by doing that thing yourself. Like, I don’t think yelling at a kid teaches them that yelling isn’t cool. (I’m not saying I never yell;…Read more...

Creating multiple Facebook accounts was easy back in the day. You might have needed a secondary email from a legitimate educational institution, but that’s typically not difficult to come by—especially if you get a new “alumni” email address tied to a university’s domain upon graduating.Read more...

The iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max’s LiDAR senor enables all sorts of cool camera features, like finding the dimensions of a room or turning real-world objects into 3D models. It’s also incredibly useful for measuring someone’s height from a distance.

We all have certain skills we’re particularly good at and may have been perfecting since childhood—things like art, cooking or fixing electronic gadgets. But as we age, we become painfully aware of our shortcomings and might decide we want to take up a new hobby and learn new things.

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Nothing upsets the flow of an otherwise good day like walking up to your car and seeing the angry orange hue of a parking ticket envelope stuck under one of your wiper blades. There are certainly worse things that can happen than getting a ticket—and hopefully that $25, $40, or, ugh, $65 (the amount I was recently…Read more...

Among the many points of uncertainty in the 2020 election, none has created a great sense of unease than our current president’s insistence that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud. Never mind that Trump has made these assertions without citing any evidence, or that extensive investigations, like this one by Frontline,…Read more...

This week we’re learning how to crank out that book you’ve been meaning to write in a mere 30 days, with author Grant Faulkner. Grant is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) and author of the book, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. Listen to…Read more...

I don’t know about you, but it’s been a challenge for me to keep my emotions in check about this upcoming election—even around my child, who is apt to pick up on any strong sentiment I may have and share it with friends, neighbors, and classmates. Our kids might very well be looking around at us right now, thinking,…Read more...

SAD stands for “Seasonal Affective Disorder,” and while there is some debate over whether or not it’s actually a standalone psychological disorder, studies do show that people can experience depression when seasons change. About 10 to 20 percent of the United States population experiences SAD, with women making up…Read more...

After a summer of ongoing protests over police violence—including the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—greater numbers of Americans are starting to understand this facet of systemic racism. Of course, it’s not only an issue in the United States, and over the past two weeks protests in Nigeria over police…Read more...

In order to get people to buy products like deodorant and mouthwash, advertisers first had to convince us that we all smell bad. It worked, and well: most people started using these toiletries, as well as many others, to keep those “bad” smells at bay. But sometimes they don’t work, or maybe you think you don’t need…Read more...

Many Americans are planning to travel for the first time this upcoming holiday season but still have concerns about safety during a pandemic. Here’s a look at the cleaning and social distancing policies of each major airline, including which ones offer blocked middle seats on flights.Read more...

As Jalopnik’s resident car-buying expert and a professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve picked a few of your questions and will try to help out. This week we are discussing whether or not an older couple should buy or lease what will likely be their last car and the best way to off-load a fairly…Read more...

Election Day is a week from tomorrow, which means we’re in the final stretch of the campaigns for national, statewide, and local offices. No matter how promising the polls look, we learned our lesson about those in 2016 to the point where seeing your preferred candidate ahead in the polls could increase your anxiety.…Read more...

An iPhone 12 case sale and Eufy’s RoboVac 11S lead Monday’s best deals.

In one of the more bizarre tech gambits in some time, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken the fight against digital piracy to an unexpected level: targeting an open-source program one might use to do something they shouldn’t online, regardless of whether the program can also be used for legal…Read more...

Every chat service should provide, at minimum, three things: a way to mute conversations so your chatty friends never bother you again, a way to leave conversations without notifying the group that you have, and a way to keep active conversations from popping up at the top of your messages list if you don’t want them…Read more...

Ahhhh, finally. Evil Week 2020 is now upon us at Lifehacker; a week in which all the morally questionable hacks we’ve wanted to write about all year are, for one week, fair game. We need this. We deserve this.Read more...

Here’s some good news for those of you dreading online shopping as the holidays approach: Google is making it easier to compare prices on Google Shopping.Read more...

A sale on Ativafit exercise equipment and I Dew Care facial mask sets lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more...

Halloween is going to look a little different this year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have kids, you’ve probably already put a decent amount of thought into how to be able to give them some type of Halloween experience, whether that’s through creative use of face masks, candy chutes or DIY decorations.

Judging by the amount of pet photos on social media, you’d assume taking a good one would be pretty straightforward. But if you’ve ever attempted to take a picture of a cat, dog, rabbit, hamster or other creature, you know that it’s actually kind of tricky. In motion, your pet probably looks cute most, if not all, of…Read more...

If you’re fortunate enough to live somewhere where the stars are visible, those of us who live in cities hope that you’re taking advantage of it. Sure, we can see the moon when it’s out—maybe an occasion planet if it’s bright enough—but not much beyond that. Then there are the moments when it looks like we can see a…Read more...