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Microsoft is preventing certain PCs running older versions of AVG and Avast antivirus software and outdated Qualcomm WiFi drivers from installing Windows 10 versions 1809, 1903, and 1909. Here’s why: Microsoft no longer allows Windows 10 to automatically update on any and all systems due to potential bugs and…Read more...

If you drive a car, you should probably know how to jump-start it in case the battery dies. But it’s one of those things where everyone has a different way of doing it, so how do you know which way is right? You’re dealing with batteries and engines, after all—you want to make sure you’re everything everything…Read more...

“I can’t fucking stand people who don’t know the difference between a ‘reason’ and an ‘excuse,’” says redditor raspberrykoolaid, talking about those repugnant people who can’t sympathize with any problem they haven’t faced themselves, and think that everyone else is just offering excuses. You don’t want to be one of…Read more...

It’s not enough that we have to do all the holiday shopping, go to all the school concerts and pick up Starbucks gift cards for all the overworked teachers in our lives—we have to turn the house into a red and green winter wonderland, too?Read more...

This Thanksgiving, give yourself one more thing to be grateful for: a day without smartphones.

It is both easy and apparently cool to hate green bean casserole. Admittedly, “canned green beans mixed with canned condensed cream of mushroom soup topped with canned fried onions” doesn’t sound great, but hating on something because it comes from a can reveals more about the hater than the dish itself.Read more...

T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach has affected a subset of its customers, with additional reporting from TechCrunch putting that figure at an estimated 1M+ accounts (or so). In other words, this is a big breach, but you shouldn’t freak out. Don’t ignore it, but don’t get nervous.

We all miss one or two life lessons. Some people, like Lifehacker reader izzysanime, never learned how to blow up a balloon. It’s actually kind of tricky until you learn it! So we’ll teach you.Read more...

Thanksgiving is coming up, which means it’s our once-a-year opportunity to stuff ourselves to a ridiculous degree, all while saying how much we’re going to regret this later as we simultaneously insist that little Billy tries some of Grandma’s green bean casserole.Read more...

It’s that time of year again: Open enrollment season for your employer benefits, which, if you’re lucky, includes the Flexible Spending Account (FSA). If you’ve always told yourself around this time “I should really take advantage of my FSA” but never do, now’s the time to correct that financial mistake. Having an FSA…Read more...

Let’s think all the way back to the end of the last decade. 2009: well before streaming services dominated entertainment, when you had to either a) purchase these items from an online store (like iTunes), b) purchase them from a physical store (remember those?) or c) mine your roommate’s music library hoping they had K…Read more...

It’s inevitable after every holiday meal: Once the dishes are cleared, the plates are stacked, and the dishwasher is loaded, out come the Ziploc bags, the Tupperware, and the plastic wrap for the solemn division of the leftovers. Everyone must take part in this postprandial rite, even if it’s just a symbolic scoop of…Read more...

The YouTube Haiku subreddit collects good videos up to 30 seconds long. The best are sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes bewildering. I’ve been a connoisseur of the genre for seven years. I’ve collected my favorites below. They’re absolute snack food—you think you can have just one or two ten-second hits,…Read more...

You turkeys probably think Netflix has you covered with a bunch of fun new content to hoover up while you’re squirreled away in your room, avoiding your cousin’s incoherent impeachment rant. And you wouldn’t be totally wrong to assume as much! Assume away, make an ass out of u and me, your cousin is doing just fine on…Read more...

Book clubs are one of the things that are notoriously hard to manage.

The American Music Awards are tonight. The action officially kicks off at 8pm ET and will be broadcast on ABC.

Remember all those romaine lettuce recalls from last year? It’s happening again. The Centers for Disease Control is advising consumers to not eat any romaine lettuce again, specifically lettuce grown in Salinas, California.

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If you’d like to watch the Seahawks vs. Eagles game tomorrow and don’t have a TV, you can tune in no matter where you are using the Yahoo Sports app for free.

One of the things I wish I had learned as a child, or even a high schooler, was basic money management. I’m doing great now, but when I turned 18 and was finally old enough to apply for credit cards I set myself up for years of failure because I simply didn’t fully understand how they, or things like an actual budget,…Read more...

Buying a plane ticket is a bit of science. If you buy a plane ticket too far in advance, you can often end up paying a lot more than if you waited closer to your travel date to buy your ticket. On the other hand, if you wait until right before your travel date then you might end up with a pricey ticket as well.

For most parents, sharing a nighttime story with their child is a precious and important time, but sometimes the tucking-in duties fall to baby sitters and other family members. The latest Google Home update adds a new “My Storytime” feature that lets parents record stories and other messages for their children on…Read more...

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, which, for those of us who avoid family during the holidays, means it’s a day dedicated to staring at your television or laptop’s screen for hours at a time. If you aren’t in the holiday spirit, perhaps because you’re spending it alone, we get it. Still, you don’t want to forget about…Read more...

I have made many cocktails in my time, but I am absolute garbage at remembering ratios. For that reason, I really appreciate recipes that call for equal parts of ingredients—even I, with my very scattered brain, can remember something like that.Read more...

Eating a mango is like taking a mini vacation in your mouth—all of a sudden, you’re transported somewhere sunny and warm, even if you’re not. But as tasty as they are, they can be a little tricky to cut up. Luckily, this instructional video demonstrates how to cut off big, clean slices from a mango around its flat,…Read more...

For reasons I will never fully understand, the only part of pie-making that anyone tries to hack is by far the easiest. Mixing pastry dough could not be simpler; all you’re doing is barely binding cold fat and flour together with a little water. It is not a process that needs hacking.

Using two-factor authentication (2FA) is a smart, simple tactic to add a little extra data security in your life. For those unaware, 2FA is when you use a secondary authentication method—like code generator apps or Bluetooth keys—to validate your identity when logging into a website or app. There’s a similar version…Read more...

Kindergarteners have a lot on their plate. They’re getting adept at recognizing letters and numbers, they’re counting in sequence, they’re learning how to sound out words and then they’re learning that many words in English can’t actually be “sounded out.” Words like “their,” “know,” “who” and “does” are among…Read more...

Feeling a little guilty about how much you’ve saved (or haven’t saved) for retirement? Maybe you’ve actually withdrawn money from your retirement accounts well before your golden years. Well, you’re far from the only one who’s made this move.Read more...

Credit card rewards can be redeemed for all kinds of things: statement credits, flights, hotels, gift cards, charitable donations, merchandise, and more.Read more...

I just lost at chess to Bobby Fischer, three times in a row. Then for a change of pace, I lost to Magnus Carlsen, world champion since 2013. Then I lost to the lowest-ranked player I could choose, 15-year-old Abhishek K. Over 29,000 people can play chess better than Abhishek. I cannot.Read more...

If there’s one thing that grinds our gears here at Lifehacker, it’s when personal finance gurus declare that the easiest way to spend less, save more, and rack up riches is by giving up coffee. “Why are you spending $5 a day on a latte when you could be investing that money?” they demand to know, instantly shaming…Read more...

As I begin to type this, I am haunted by an old comment—a comment from my xoJane days. I don’t remember what article the comment was on, but I remember the message: “Jesus Christ Claire, have some freaking self-respect.” It was a good comment, a comment that is as relevant today as it was then, for I have eaten the Tac…Read more...

I thought the office was haunted. The piercing whine of a cat, or a baby, coming through the vents. A machine from the construction outside the window? Oh god, probably a dying mouse in the ceiling. I brought in our deputy editor Alice to listen with me. “I heard that!” she said. She went back to her office; I crept…Read more...

So far in our weird lifts challenge, I’ve asked you to do a one-handed deadlift and a one-handed dumbbell snatch. Now here’s a relief: for this week’s lift, I’ll let you put both hands on the barbell. We’re doing Jefferson deadlifts.Read more...

Sure, it’s great to make a to-do list, but how do you prioritize the tasks—especially when everything seems like a priority? Instead of getting overwhelmed, you need to learn how to prioritize your priorities. Yes, that’s entirely possible, and we’re going to tell you how to do it.Read more...

My son has learned a lot from his martial arts teacher—so many wonderful lessons about respect, discipline, determination and confidence. But my favorite take-away from the past two years of his training: Kids don’t mind doing a bunch of push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks if you let them roll giant dice across the…Read more...

“What song is 10/10, yet hardly anyone has heard of it?” redditor depressinqq asked. AskReddit users replied with 435 songs. Redditor BubblyBullinidae put them in a Spotify playlist.

Last year, we wrote about the troubling problem of Airbnb rentals with hidden cameras, spying on guests. (Back in April, a family even found a hidden camera live-streaming their stay at an Airbnb in Ireland.) But in our latest edition of Hack or Wack, we ask another important, related question: Would you willingly…Read more...

Though the initial mania surrounding the Instant Pot has died down, the fans remain loyal, and the recipes keep coming (though at a slightly slower rate). Most Instant Pot praise focuses on how fast you can cook things, but its speed isn’t what makes it a Thanksgiving hero. The real benefit to cooking things in the…Read more...

Breaking bad news to our kids is awful. A divorce, a serious illness, the death of a pet, the death of a family member ... there are all kinds of difficult things they will experience in their lives that we can’t fully shield them from. We have to tell them because if we don’t, someone else will; and it’s always…Read more...

Android users can now have Google Assistant buy movie tickets and reserve seats for them, thanks to a new Google Duplex feature that makes it possible for the AI to access and navigate Chrome webpages on its own—much like how the Duplex AI allows Google Assistant to call restaurants or hotels for reservations on your…Read more...

Apple products have been seeing tons of early holiday season discounts. We’ve covered as many of these as we can catch, but even if we miss a few, it seems like new ones are rolling in every day. One of the more recent deals is a modest—but still decent—discount on the Apple Watch Series 5 though Amazon, as well as a…Read more...

It’s kind of a random pairing—I get it—but two new websites have joined ‘have i been pwned’s’ illustrious list of breached sites. One is a cryptocurrency wallet and the other is a RuneScape bot. These sound like small potatoes, but the two breaches have potentially affected up to 2.2 million users, and you’d be wise…Read more...

Summits is a mountain-by-mountain guide to climbing. Each mountain in the Summits database has its own page with detailed climbing directions both quantitative and qualitative, making it a great way to prepare to visit a particular mountain, or even choose which mountain to climb.Read more...

Capping off a long day of impeachment hearing testimonies, last night’s Democratic debate featured 10 presidential hopefuls debating over issues of sufficient paid family leave, women’s reproductive rights and Roe v. Wade, and the U.S.’ role in ongoing protests and violence in Hong Kong.

If you’re not doubting the accuracy of every medical bill you receive, it’s probably time to start being more skeptical.

Vlad just landed an adult job, so he is looking to spend adult money on a car. But he’s a young guy and he doesn’t want to be too mature about it. He is looking for something nice but flashy, with enough power to lay down some rubber in a straight line. What car should he buy?Read more...

Most of us already know that if we don’t get enough time to rest and recuperate between stressful tasks, we risk burning ourselves out. But how much rest do we actually need?Read more...