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Thanksgiving leftovers are a recipe genre in their own right and, though I love a sandwich, it does not hurt to have some other, slightly more innovative leftover strategies at the ready. This is particularly true if you want to eat your leftovers for breakfast.Read more...

I think it’s fair to say that kids have a lot more options these days to stay entertained in the car on a road trip. What did we have? Books. Pen and paper. A Walkman, if we were lucky. And eventually, a boredom that ran deep enough to make the alphabet license plate game sound like a good idea.Read more...

Epilepsy is more common than you might guess—1 in 26 people will be diagnosed during their lifetime—and seizures can occur for other reasons too. In total, 1 in 10 people will have a seizure at some point in their life. Here’s what to do if you’re there when it happens, according to the Epilepsy Foundation.Read more...

Folding laundry is a huge pain, but fitted sheets are in a category of their own. Those round elastic “corners” never match up, and even if you manage to get one side of the sheets semi-flat, the other side will inevitably bunch up. Fortunately, there’s a technique that actually works.Read more...

I know, I know; it sounds a bit sacreligious if you just plunked down $2,000+ for a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, but we live in a day and age where kittens and puppies can be friends. And if you want to run macOS and Windows 10 on the same system, you should feel you can do that without upsetting the Apple gods (or…Read more...

Like WeWork, Uber, Amazon, YouTube, DoorDash, and every tech platform you rely on to live in the 21st century, the transcription service Rev recently screwed over the people who do the actual work. They dropped the minimum rate for their contracted transcriptionists by 33%, to effectively less than $5 an hour.…Read more...

According to an investigation by Checkmarx security researchers, some Android devices may have an unpatched security flaw that an app could use to record you without your knowledge using your device’s camera and mic.

A flexible spending account (FSA) can be a great way to cover your out-of-pocket medical expenses with pre-tax money—meaning you can save money just by putting funds aside for your medical costs that insurance doesn’t cover. But if you’ve never had one before, you might be confused about how much money to contribute.

Nutritional yeast—known as “nooch” around my studio apartment—is best known for the savory, cheese-adjacent flavor it brings to vegetarian and vegan dishes, as well as popcorn. But the yellow flakes have applications outside of their hippyish beginnings, particularly when dealing with sauces and gravies.Read more...

One of the trickiest parts of parenting is teaching our kids how to safely do things that have a great potential for harming them. It starts with teaching them to use scissors safely when they’re preschoolers, then sharp knives to cut their own food and, before we know it, how to drive a car. We don’t like it but we…Read more...

A cold being a viral infection, there’s not much you can do to make it go away. That means most of the remedies people swear by—think vitamin C, essential oils, elderberry syrup—are only making you feel better, not literally fighting your cold. But since feeling better is kind of the point, here’s how you can get the…Read more...

Firefox is one of the best browsers for blocking ads and crappy web trackers, and you can make it even better using “nuke-’em-all” browser extensions like uBlock Origin. Now, Ghacks and GitHub users point out that uBlock Origins is even capable of blocking new types of ads, trackers, and website content that browsers…Read more...

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Should you buy a 5G smartphone? You probably don’t need one right now unless the price is right and—if you’re a Verizon user, at least—your living or working space falls within its 5G territory, which you can now check thanks to the company’s just-released 5G coverage maps. If either (or both) do, the decision gets a…Read more...

Usually, when drawing up the guest list for a dinner party, one tries to minimize the kooks and troublemakers, but one does not have this luxury with Thanksgiving, as most of the guest list is made up of family members. You may have to invite your nut of an uncle, but you can also invite a different kind of nut—the…Read more...

Here’s the good news: If you haven’t updated your Realtek Bluetooth drivers in some time, or don’t even know that’s a thing, you can finally update to Windows 10 version 1909—the latest and greatest iteration of the operating system as of when we published this article.Read more...

Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t eat corn on the cob. In fact, it’s a great way to add a little summery flair to your next meal and make it feel more like a picnic. You can even enjoy fresh corn on the cob at work by covering the corn with wet paper towels and cooking in your microwave.Read more...

A specter is haunting Thanksgiving—the specter of dry turkey. One of the easiest ways to prevent this horror is to cook the big-ass bird sous-vide but, thanks to a large hole where its insides used to be, keeping a whole turkey submerged is usually quite the challenge. To overcome the buoyancy, you could chop the…Read more...

This is one of those months where Netflix loses a lot of great older movies, and replaces them with some great originals.

Most of us have used a coupon at some point, whether you ripped it out of a newspaper insert or accessed it via an app. But advanced couponers know that using one coupon is just the gateway; the real path to savings is by stacking them. By combining manufacturer and store coupons and other offers (such as rebates),…Read more...

Throwing up is pretty awful, so when it happens to us, we typically want to try to pinpoint what exactly is going on in our body to make sure it doesn’t happen again. If a stomach bug isn’t going around, you may suspect food poisoning, and blame the restaurant you ate at a few hours earlier. But that place is probably…Read more...

When my son was a preschooler, I was forever looking for new artsy activities to do with him. I especially loved activities where the set-up was part of the activity itself—you get more mileage out of those. We’d make homemade play dough together or mix together corn starch, water and food coloring to make sidewalk…Read more...

Once again, it’s time for another Democratic presidential debate in the 2020 race. This round, we’ll witness just 10 candidates take the stage in Atlanta, Georgia, representing a slowly dwindling pool of qualifying presidential hopefuls (though it remains to be seen how both Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg will…Read more...

Demi Adejuyigbe has written for The Good Place and James Corden, co-hosted the podcasts Punch Up the Jam and Gilmore Guys, and turned the 21st of September into an internet holiday. He’s written fake credits songs for Space Jam, Black Panther, Get Out, Infinity War, Ready Player One, Aladdin, a Lando movie, and Success…Read more...

WhatsApp users should hit up the Google Play Store or the App Store and make sure they’re running the latest version of the app, as a new update fixes a major security bug that could let hackers slip malicious code onto devices through seemingly innocent .MP4 video files.

According to numerous reports, a number of hacked Disney+ accounts have been popping up over the web lately. And those breaking into your account aren’t taking advantage of some crazy vulnerability in the streaming service. They’re either phishing your account data or, worse, logging in as you by using credentials…Read more...

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In theory, when money is exchanged for goods or services, there’s supposed to be some relationship between the amount of money and the value of the thing bought. But because health insurance is such a weird system, in practice that doesn’t end up happening.Read more...

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When you’re pregnant, everyday activities take on an extra layer of difficulty. You can’t sleep in a comfortable position or go from sitting to standing with anything resembling grace. Working—whether you’re on your feet all day or trapped at a desk for eight straight hours—can be trying. And commuting to and from…Read more...

Have a tricky friendship situation? Wondering if you’ve outgrown a friendship and it’s time to say goodbye? Is your best friend ghosting you? Are you ghosting someone else?Read more...

Twitter’s List feature makes it easy to navigate through the platform’s noise, but it comes with one major annoyance—lists are packed with potential for abuse, especially when you find yourself a card-carrying member of others’ “People who suck on Twitter” lists.Read more...

With the recent news of former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s entry into the 2020 presidential race—and the very real possibility of Michael Bloomberg’s run—keeping up with all 18 of the candidates’ proposed policies is becoming more difficult by the day. (We’ve tried. Here are a few of our guides on where…Read more...

Artificial intelligence systems can write pretty convincingly readable text these days. A new browser extension, GPTrue or False, can test whether a given text is likely to have been generated by an AI.Read more...

Are you reading this as a way to put off doing something else? When you’re done with this article, are you going to get back to work—or are you going to look for something else to distract you, just for a moment?Read more...

A hearty stock is the foundation of every great Thanksgiving menu. And if you’re vegan, you can’t do better than the rich, golden broth from a pot of chickpeas.Read more...

Hop on over to eBay and you’ll be able to score a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ for a mere $800, which is the lowest we’ve seen it in some time (and surely better than most Black Friday deals you’ll see for the phone, if any exist).

Freshly ironed clothing looks pretty great: clean, crisp and tidy. In theory, ironing is great and once you get started it’s not even that bad, but it’s also cumbersome and something that a lot of people tend to put off. Plus, you may be a little scared of ruining your favorite shirt or dress.Read more...

Candidates for president often announce radical plans for what they’ll do once they get to the White House—but it’s a long road to sweeping change. A new president doesn’t move in and immediately enact their new policies. Nor does Congress instantly convene and say “Yeah, that all sounds good, let’s do that,” before…Read more...

For many parents, deciding if, when or how to grow your family can be difficult. And when other factors—such as infertility or the heightened needs of your other children—come into play, the decision-making can be that much harder. Here’s this week’s Parental Advisory question:Read more...

Just as you’re about to fall asleep and slip into a blissful state of unconsciousness, it hits you—that moment when you said or did the absolute wrong thing back in high school (or during a job interview or any other social setting). For whatever reason, the memory haunts you, unwilling to recede into the depths of…Read more...

Maybe you already kicked off your holiday shopping. You snagged a Singles Day deal or one of the many pre-holiday sales dangled by retailers in early November. But it’s all a run-up to the big day: Black Friday.Read more...

Online shopping has made holiday gift buying almost stupidly easy, but as convenient as it is, it’s also a lot easier for hackers and scammers to phish your financial data if you aren’t being careful.

I spent a decent chunk of the weekend putting a dent into my Disney+ queue—thanks, 4K Dolby Atmos Star Wars movies—but my enjoyment of Disney’s cheap streaming service is slightly dampened by the various films that are still bound to Netflix. However, you can start getting your queue ready for titles like Black Panther…Read more...

Apple is back with another fresh update to iOS 13. We’re assuming you’ve already made the plunge, but if not, now is as good a time as any to upgrade to the latest operating system for your iPhone and iPad. And if you’re already there, great! It’s time to install another update to deal with some annoying, lingering…Read more...

I have no patience for centerpieces I cannot eat. Flowers are pretty—I’ve always thought that—but putting a vase of inedible greenery in the middle of the table just creates a future problem for oneself; that problem being “where do I put this thing to make room for the food?”Read more...

The adults who spend their time discussing the pros and cons of hobbits vs. elves and the ones who ponder if they’d succeed better as a part of House Lannister or House Martell are the ones who likely started their lives gobbling up some geeky chapter books. The more dragons, magic and time travel, the better.Read more...

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Mobile browsers are better than ever, but they’re still cumbersome to use when compared to the desktop versions. Managing open tabs on Chrome, for example, is mindlessly easy on desktop but fiddly on mobile. Google has been making changes to the way tabs work on mobile over the past year, but the most recent update…Read more...

I believe in charts. A good chart can stick an important fact into your mind and keep it there. And some of the best come from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd. Now you can turn any chart into an xkcd chart, if you have the data and know a little code.