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Need some last-minute Halloween candy, because you were either too cheap to buy any or you ate it all yourself? Here’s a hack: you actually don’t.Read more...

I’m not sure I condone this hack, but since it’s Halloween and we’ve all got costumes on the brain, let’s take a look at this DIY strategy to get out of paying extra airline bag fees.Read more...

This particular Halloween has gone on for about 10 days, which means you have probably amassed a large pile of candy, even if you don’t have any children. This candy can be eaten as is, hoarded in the freezer, or chopped up and sprinkled into pancakes. (You can also take all three courses of action, depending on the…Read more...

I am weak. I splurged on a brand-new pair of AirPods Pro and I’ve been fiddling around with them all day. Setting up these third-generation wireless earbuds isn’t that difficult, but there are a few settings you’re definitely going to want to play with if you preordered a pair yourself (or plan to pick some up later).

If your little one wants to celebrate Halloween with a seasonal video game, it’s your parental responsibility to choose something appropriate—scary enough to thrill, but not so scary it scars your child’s psyche. Most horror video games are violent and explicit (just how fans like them), and kids are soft and tender,…Read more...

Chalk helps your grip so much. Powerlifters know this, gymnasts know this, Olympic lifters know this. But if you lift at a commercial gym, you may have never gotten to know this wonderful substance; it’s pretty much never available, and often banned. Well, here’s how to bend the rules.Read more...

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Tonight you can get free candy from strangers. But you can also get some free sweets from Krispy Kreme and other chains. And it’s a big night for free kids meals—mostly regardless of whether the kids are in costume.

Here’s a fun one: There’s new Android malware making the rounds that is not only irritating—thanks, pop-up ads—but it’s also incredibly difficult to remove from your Android device once you’re infected.Read more...

The Apple Music student subscription, which grants users access to Apple’s premium music streaming service at a fraction of normal monthly price, is about to get even better.

There are many reasons to go on a rampage, ridding your home of all the plastic toy nonsense. You’re tired of stepping on hard, pointy things. You know your kids only actually play with 20% of the toys they own. You have finally run out of every inch of space.

The Pixel 4 and 4 XL’s have some of the best camera hardware available on any smartphone, but “best” doesn’t necessarily mean “perfect.” As Android Police, Reddit posters, and Google support users have reported, the Pixel 4's white balance algorithm seems to cause a strange color-correction error. A similar issue…Read more...

On Tuesday, Amazon officially eliminated all delivery fees associated with its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery program for Prime Members, a service that traditionally costs $14.99 a month; this news comes just months after Amazon’s shift to one-day shipping for its Prime customers. According to Vox, delivery fees will…Read more...

Need to get away from whatever spooky-slash-cheesy festivities are happening in your town? Get away from it all—literally, get on a plane and get out of there—with JetBlue’s “Monster Sale.” Every flight to and from destinations in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Halloween is $31.

If you churn credit cards the right way, you can maximize your credit card rewards—but make one mistake, and those rewards could get clawed back.Read more...

I am not the hugest fan of food-based practical jokes. Feeding people things without their consent is not cute or funny, but pulling the ol’ bait and switch can be amusing (to you) as long as it occurs before anyone has ingested anything against their will.Read more...

The day has arrived, Taco Bell fans. It’s time for this baseball postseason’s celebration of Steal a Base, Steal a Taco. Taco Bell’s annual tradition stipulates that if a player steals a base at any point during the World Series, America gets tacos. Well, just one taco. Form an orderly line, please.Read more...

Everybody has a plan for working from home right up until the moment your kid wakes up with a runny nose and a slight fever. At that point, many parents will tell you it’s just about getting through the day. But sometimes, with the right mindset and tactics, you can have it all.Read more...

Microsoft has dropped a brand-new open-source Windows 10 PowerToy, and it’s just as fun and useful as the other two. This new addition, “PowerRename,” gives you a simple method for batch-renaming files within File Explorer. It’s free, easy, and worth the 10 seconds it takes to install on your system.Read more...

Emerson College, founded in 1880 as the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art, is one of the country’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges. We talked to its twelfth president, Lee Pelton, about his academic background, his personal work habits, and his excellent reading recommendations.Read more...

In case you’ve missed it, it’s Evil Week over at Lifehacker HQ—a week dedicated to doing morally questionable things the right way. Yesterday, we shared strategies on how to get out of virtually anything just by using your kids as an excuse. On the phone with someone who won’t shut up? Tell them there’s an emergency…Read more...

“Racist boss harassed Puerto Rican employees and broke labor laws. Ended up getting deported.” “I got him thrown in jail and ruined his relationship of 5 years.” “Revenge of the Little Spoon.” “Apparently toothpaste-filled Oreos taste like real Oreos.” “Spam king gets spammed back and sent to prison.” “The Mad…Read more...

Goodbye, paycheck. Amazon and Target are currently running limited-time buy-2-get-1 offers on select PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch games this week, including the recently released The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and even Nintendo releases like Super Mario Maker 2.Read more...

When someone pisses you off on Facebook, the logical, natural response is to lob over the nuke—block them, and you’ll never have to deal with anything they say on the social network ever again. It’s a refreshing feeling, but it’s also a wee extreme for minor infractions.Read more...

Offshore banking is a thing you hear don’t hear about in normal, everyday, real life. It’s for news stories about tax-evaders who got caught. It’s for this season’s plot of of How to Get Away With Murder.

Apple released iOS 13.2 the other day, which adds some neat features for your HomePod—including the ability to detect and differentiate between multiple voices and pass audio from an iPhone to the Homepod by bringing the phone near the speaker. The bad news is that this update seems to be bricking some HomePods…Read more...

With Halloween just two days away and all the last-minute costume-making panic that is sure to ensue, it seems like a good time for a friendly reminder: Blackface is still racist and should not be a part of anyone’s costume, child or adult. You can be LeBron James, Barack Obama or Beyoncé without darkening your…Read more...

Apple TV Plus launches on Friday, November 1, and though the $5 monthly price tag and slowly-expanding device support make it an easy sell for the passionate Apple fans out there, those who haven’t already bought into the wider Apple ecosystem may need some convincing before they pony up the cash for yet another …Read more...

As of Tuesday morning, the Kincade fire in Sonoma County, California has spread over 74,000 acres, forcing an estimated 174,000 people to evacuate their homes. (49 homes have been destroyed or damaged in its path so far.) According to tweets by Susie Cagle, a reporter for the Guardian, some evacuation centers have…Read more...

If you haven’t heard of Blinkist, a company that took $34 million in VC funding to sell people summaries of books, don’t worry! Blinkist honors authors and publishers by making summaries of their work, mostly without permission, and selling them for $100 a year. I’m all for pretending to read books. So I’ve decided to…Read more...

Gaining control of the jukebox can go to one’s head, particularly if that head is a little drunk. You can use this power for good, and play a song everyone will enjoy (like “Operator” by Jim Croce or “Dan Bilzerian” by T-Pain) or you could play “Monster Mash” 13 times in a row. You don’t even have to be in the bar.Read more...

If you want to earn extra points on your credit card or ditch the card’s annual fee, it might be worth calling the credit card company and threatening to cancel.Read more...

Show up in public with a pregnant-looking belly and suddenly everyone is all “When are you due?” and “Do you know what you’re having?”, as if the contents of your uterus are somehow their business. You will probably feel pressured to answer politely, but here is another option: lie.Read more...

Sure, you could sneak around, hiding your favorite treats in the box of the blandest cereal in your pantry, devouring them in secret once the kids are safely in bed for the night. But why do that when you can brazenly enjoy it right in front of them because they believe that piece of chocolatey goodness is actually…Read more...

Bluetooth is a handy feature that allows you to easily connect up your various devices, whether you’re trying to get your new wireless headphones to talk to your Android phone or connecting your Apple Watch to your iPhone. Bluetooth could also get you caught in the crossfire of teenagers sharing selfies with…Read more...

Even though you might not be able to update an ancient smartphone to the latest version of its operating system, you shouldn’t assume your device won’t have any critical updates for the rest of its life. This couldn’t be any more true for iPhone 5 owners right now.Read more...

Over the weekend, devastating fires in Northern California forced an estimated 200,000 people to evacuate—the single largest evacuation in Sonoma County in its history, the Washington Post writes. Meanwhile, just a few hundred miles south, the Getty Fire has already engulfed at least 500 acres in the Los Angeles area…Read more...

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Well, that was unexpected. With absolutely no fanfare whatsoever—not even a tease at last month’s big press event—Apple officially announced its brand-new AirPods Pro in a press release today. What you lack in Tim Cook stuffing tiny speakers in his ears, you gain in features. Specifically, noise-cancelling…Read more...

Apple dropped iOS 13.2 today (as well as iPadOS 13.2 and tvOS 13.2), and like most iOS updates of its kind, there are plenty of changes and additions to play with. This includes the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro cameras finally receiving the Deep Fusion photography feature—for awesome low-light shots—and a bunch of new Siri…Read more...

How fast can vampires take over the entire human population? Omni Calculator gives you not one answer, but six, based on vampire mythologies from Dracula, Salem’s Lot, Interview with the Vampire, Twilight, and True Blood, plus some custom scenarios. You can see the whole world converted, or how humanity fights back…Read more...

We have received a great deal of feedback from you, our readers, about the sound-on autoplay videos that have been inundating our sites. We want you to know that we hear you, that we take those complaints seriously, and that we, the writers, editors, and video producers of Lifehacker, are as upset with the current…Read more...

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Our kids bring us so much joy and a deeper love than we ever thought possible. It’s an incredible, humbling thing to watch your children grow and mature right before your very eyes. And also, your kid can get you out of shit you don’t wanna do.Read more...

You’re about to leave for the airport, assured you’ve followed your packing list to a tee, when you reach into your carry-on and panic sets in—somehow, your driver’s license is nowhere to be found. You rummage through your suitcase and retrace your every step, but no luck.

It’s been a while since Google announced plans to push RCS adoption so that Android users could finally move on from the outdated SMS technology, but most users are stuck waiting for their mobile carriers to flip the switch at some point in 2020—that is, unless you decide to take matters into your own hands and flip…Read more...

What can we do to live longer, healthier lives? Bulletproof Coffee founder Dave Asprey joins us on The Upgrade to talk about the practices he’s adopted that he believes will help us all lengthen our lifespans. Hear him talk about the surprising ways we can fend off aging that he includes in his latest book, Super…Read more...

Your home network—and everything connected to it—is like a vault. Behind your login lies tons of valuable information, from unencrypted files containing personal data to devices that can be hijacked and used for any purpose. In this post, we’ll show you how to map out your network, take a peek under the covers to see…Read more...

You don’t need to be in the office to get work done—but sometimes it’s a good idea to make it look like you’re there.Read more...