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For months, movie theaters across the country have been closed as part of the ongoing effort to save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19. In response, studios have opted to delay their big releases or pivot to a VOD rollout instead. But Russell Crowe won’t be held back by some coronavirus. He has a new action film…Read more...

If you’re a Mac developer, or you like to try out new apps by building Xcode projects, there’s a serious strain of malware you need to be aware of: XCSSET.

Pull up Facebook, assuming you still use it, and type “COVID-19 sensor” into the search bar. This should show you a list of public posts where people—a not-so-small number of people, mind you—swear up and down that their phones were recently updated with a “COVID-19 tracker” that can tell them when they’ve been near…Read more...

A good vinaigrette should punch your tongue with a potent combination of salty, sweet, and acidic flavors. Err too much in one direction or another, and your salad will suffer. Making a great tasting vinaigrette isn’t hard, however, and using the template above (and below) can help you nail it every time.Read more...

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As college students return to school, some have noticed a new line item on their bill: a coronavirus fee. With new costs for screening, testing, and safety configurations, the New York Times reports some colleges and universities are passing part of the expense along to students.

If you’re ever curious how a movie script translates to what you’re watching on screen—including just how much of an actor’s dialogue was improvised or prewritten—do I have a browser extension for you. I just stumbled across it the other day, and it’s just what I needed to add a little extra spice to my…Read more...

I have been experiencing some mood issues recently, which isn’t really that unique or surprising. Lots of people are feeling shitty right now, because things are shitty. Both anxiety and depression can affect one’s relationship with food, and my job as a food writer does not exempt me from this.Read more...

It’s very likely that you (and almost everyone around you) are suffering some degree of burnout right about now. Between work, various debts, the pandemic, the financial crisis and the precarious nature of our future, it’s hard to feel like you can stop and take a breather. Fortunately, this week we’re talking with…Read more...

Dark Sky was the go-to weather app for many Android users. That is, until it was removed from the Google Store after Apple scooped it up and made it a first-party product. Several Android apps offer similar, super-localized weather reporting, but some of us just aren’t over the loss of Dark Sky. Luckily, an anonymous…Read more...

Meditation has known benefits, both research-backed and anecdotal. But few things in this life work for everybody, and there’s reason to believe that meditation may make some people’s mental health worse. If that’s you, I hereby give you permission to quit. Guilt-free.Read more...

If you are concerned about the apparent efforts to starve the United States Postal Service of the funds it needs to handle the upcoming influx of mail-in ballots, a text message can help. On Twitter, @Resistbot is offering to send letters to representatives on your behalf through a quick text or direct message…Read more...

COVID-19 didn’t wind up disappearing over the summer like we’d hoped—far from it. But even though the coronavirus doesn’t seem to be seasonal, plenty of other communicable diseases are. Colds and influenza make the rounds every winter, and this winter they’re going to be circulating alongside COVID. So how can we…Read more...

There is a lot of fruit in season at the moment, but you will not find it in my sangria. Peak-season produce can be a little pricey, but mostly it just feels disrespectful to obscure the flavor of a perfectly ripe, sun-kissed and (possibly) freshly picked blackberry or peach with a “bold” red wine. That is a job for…Read more...

When I was 20, my boyfriend broke up with me because I lied about quitting smoking, and he did not move across the country as he said he would. It was my senior year of college. To live in that apartment, which I could not afford alone, my dad took out a loan to help with the rent. For a year, I lived there with 12…Read more...

The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble: essential mail services that many Americans rely on are being reduced amidst an ongoing political battle. One of those essential services is mail-in voting, which is expected to be exponentially larger this year due to the pandemic.Read more...

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Like many millennial children, Caleb LoSchiavo grew up loving the Harry Potter series. “As a kid, I always felt like I didn’t fit in, like I didn’t belong, like there was that thing about me that was missing, but I didn’t have the language to describe,” LoSchiavo says. “Harry Potter was an outside place I could escape…Read more...

As the pandemic consumes the nation, millions of housebound Americans have immersed themselves in a new hobby: trading stocks. Lured by the ability to make commission-free trades, online brokerages—like Charles Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Ameritrade—have seen an uptick in users this year.

When it comes to animation, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have earned an incredible amount of my goodwill. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs expanded a brief children’s book to feature length by getting super weird. In The Lego Movie, they managed to turn an idea that wasn’t really an idea (Lego... are... movie?)…Read more...

Thought the data from that embarrassing Instagram post was lost after you deleted it, like tears in digital rain? Think again.Read more...

The Chrome Web Store is a mess, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use legitimate extensions to improve your browser experience—whether that’s on Google Chrome or the resource-friendlier alternative, Microsoft’s Edge Chromium.Read more...

A big inflatable pool for $91, $50 Nintendo Switch games, a day-long Kindle eBook sale on sci-fi and fantasy novels, refurbished Fitbit Ones, and more are some of Sunday’s deals of the day.

It has been 15 years since NASA launched their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and it continues to provide us with spectacular images of the Red Planet. To celebrate this anniversary, NASA has released a new batch of images from the MRO, including some of the most detailed shots we’ve seen so far. Here’s what we…Read more...

Uncertainty, for many, is unsettling. Of course, we don’t want every part of our lives to be formulaic and boring, but not being sure whether you can pay your bills each month, for example, can be anxiety-inducing. Most people have some type of everyday uncertainty—whether it’s financial, professional, personal or…Read more...

There was a long period in our history when women wrote books using male pen names in order to have a shot at getting published. Things have improved since then (though apparently we still need fake male assistants for our requests to be taken seriously), and to celebrate these authors, and giving them credit under…Read more...

Professional sports are a thing that some people enjoy a lot. And given that most have been cancelled over the past several months thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, the fans are getting (understandably) restless. The good news is that some professional sports—like baseball, basketball and hockey—have started up…Read more...

Along with never-ending anxiety, feeling overwhelmed seems to be the norm the days. You’d think that spending so much more time at home would help us get (and stay) on top of things, but that’s definitely not the case for a lot of people. (If you’re someone who quarancleaned early on and now have Pinterest-worthy…Read more...

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Back in April, we reported on the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) recommendation that contact lens wearers switch back to glasses for the time being, for pandemic reasons. In addition to avoiding anything that involves sticking your fingers in your eyes right now, the AAO also pointed out that contact lens…Read more...

Maybe you’re a parent who, like a lot of parents nowadays, is working from home as the covid-19 pandemic still rages on. If you have tween-aged, gaming inclined children, they probably play Fortnite. Yesterday, that tween-aged gamer came to you wondering what’s going on with Fortnite. And you, dear parent, have no…Read more...

The 2020 general election is coming up fast, and while November 3 is a pretty easy date to remember, Election Day might actually be weeks earlier if you’re planning on voting early or voting by mail. Since voting rules and deadlines are a little bit different in every state, now is the time to make a plan.

Chinese authorities recently found traces of the coronavirus on frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil. But experts don’t think food (frozen or otherwise) is a coronavirus threat worth worrying about.Read more...

With changing times come new realizations. For instance, now that we’ve been quarantined for over five months, I’ve learned that my dog is no longer cool with me leaving his side. Or maybe you’ve discovered a new hobby, like making sourdough bread or learning to doodle. For many of us, though, it’s become abundantly…Read more...

Earlier this month, the Department of Education released new details about its upcoming student loan servicer overhaul. The department first announced these sweeping changes in a June press release—including its contracts with five new student loan servicers.

The Negroni is perhaps the most riffed on cocktail in existence. Heck, there is an entire week dedicated to riffing on it. One such riff is the “White Negroni,” which is usually made with the grassier, gentian-forward Suze or Avèze. It’s good, but I don’t know why they call it “white”—it’s bright yellow.Read more...

You’ll typically know when bad weather is headed your way, whether you’ve looked out the sky to see that ominous gray/green tint of a summer thunderstorm, you have a fancy Dark Sky-like app that alerts you when meteorological disaster is approaching, or you’ve been reading the news—the Google News, that is.Read more...

Google and Apple yanked Fortnite off their app stores yesterday after Epic made changes to the in-game payment methods. Epic’s suing both companies in response, but Fortnite’s removal means you can’t download the game from either app store anymore.

It has come to this, the week of the sandbag fitness challenge in which I try out the infamous toss and chase. Outdoors. In the heat. If I survived it, you can too.Read more...

In one of 2020's more bizarre plot twists, the US Postal Service is possibly being sabotaged for political gain. The full story is complex, confusing and almost certainly incomplete, but USA Today offers a pretty good rundown here.Read more...

Bugs found in Alexa’s web services could have let hackers access voice recordings and personal data stored on Amazon’s servers. Some of the vulnerabilities could even let hackers remotely install Alexa Skills on someone else’s device without them knowing. Despite the severity of these flaws, you’re safe in this…Read more...

What a day. Epic Games is suing Apple and Google over their alleged monopolistic practices on their various app stores, and both companies have banned Epic’s most popular game, Fortnite, from their respective app stores for trying to skirt around the cut each company takes from in-app purchases.Read more...

There is a lot going on right now, which means it may seem especially difficult to manage your time properly. Feeling overwhelmed can lead to stress, and in these uncertain times (understatement), it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in uncompleted tasks.Read more...

Crab-stuffed vegetables are certainly delicious, but I always feel a little guilty mixing expensive, high-quality crab meat with cheese and crumbs and shoving it into a mushroom. You can cut costs by buying whole crabs and breaking them down yourself, but I am prone to eating crab meat the moment it comes out of the…Read more...

Around mid-March, 2020 travel plans went from “Maybe we’ll be able to go somewhere for Memorial Day weekend!” to “Maybe we’ll be able to see the remaining members of our families for the holidays in 2022!” (Too dark?) OK, so it’s not quite that extreme—some people have had the opportunity to go from…Read more...

As the pandemic cancels fall plans like in-person classes and college football, you may not be expecting to travel through 2020—and beyond. With all the travel restrictions, you may be thinking about your rewards credit card, the hefty annual fee, and whether it still makes sense to keep it.Read more...

This is going to be quite the year for unique childcare solutions as our kids spend most (or all) of their time learning outside of the classroom, even as parents continue to try to work and we all attempt to stay isolated to protect each other. Parents need help, but sometimes getting help doesn’t feel safe.Read more...

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Our timeline transitioned into an episode of Black Mirror so gradually, we didn’t even notice (well, maybe some of us noticed). But the new reality will start getting harder to deny when companies just start straight up ripping off episodes of that darkly satirical, five-minutes-into-the-future Netflix series. Case…Read more...