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Now that a lot of us are spending more time at home, a number of streaming services have started to offer longer free trials or access to some of their original content for free.

Now that we’re spending a lot more time at home, everyone from online streaming services to digital schools are offering longer-than-normal free trials to give people something to do while they’re at home.

A sale on the Garmin Vivoactive 4S, spend $100 to get $50 at Western Rise, The Last Jedi Steelbook, $18 Crocs sandals, and more top Easter Sunday’s best deals.

Social and physical distancing has a lot of us spending more time in front of screens and communicating with friends in different ways than we normally would, often through social media.

A dash cam, a sale of Avengers comics, Lenovo ThinkPad sales, Borderlands 3 for $20, and more lead the way for Saturday’s best deals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has many of us spending a lot more time at home, and many companies offering options for things to do while you’re there.

Willie Nelson is hosting a digital version of his popular Farm Aid festival tonight. Called “At Home With Farm Aid,” the show will include performances by members of the Farm Aid board including Dave Matthews, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp.

You might have heard there’s currently a global pandemic going on. As a result you might be using things like alcohol and disinfect wipes to clean off your stuff, including your Switch. Nintendo says don’t, at least if your priority is not damaging the system’s finish. For many, it probably isn’t.

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Staying active is important for your health and mental wellbeing. We all know it, and yet in the mad scramble to juggle working from home and child care—not to mention all of the existential worries of living through a pandemic—fitness is one of those habits that is all too easy easy to let slide. This is doubly true…Read more...

Facebook is rolling out a new “Quiet Mode” feature for its iOS and Android apps, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. A lot of us are glued to our phones even more than usual right now—thanks, quarantine!—and while apps like Facebook help us stay in touch, there is such a thing as being too connected.

Among the many contemplative moments brought on by weeks of pandemic-induced isolation, you might be asking yourself whether you should get life insurance—or whether your existing policy covers death due to the coronavirus.Read more...

You’re staying at home, we hope. But when you spend so much time looking at your own four walls, it’s hard to internalize the fact that the very things you’re not doing—dropping off the kids at day care, seeing your gym buddies for a workout—are what’s truly making a difference. This little demonstration from Laval…Read more...

Know before you tweet: Twitter now sells more information about your activity on its platform to third-party advertisers regardless of which privacy options you turn on or off. Users signing onto the service were recently greeted with a push notification informing them that the company changed its privacy policy and…Read more...

If socially distancing has taught me anything, it’s that I love bars more than I love alcohol. I miss sitting in a space that I don’t pay rent on while sipping on a cold martini that I did not mix and listening to music that I did not choose. I miss surrendering control, I think.Read more...

Hi hello would you like something else to worry about on top of [broadly gestures]? Hmm yes, well your reusable grocery bag is trying to kill you, how about that for a new thing to worry about?

Earlier this month, the federal government launched the Paycheck Protection Program, which gives small-business owners the opportunity to apply for a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan designed to help businesses make payroll during the coronavirus pandemic. If the loan money is spent on certain designated…Read more...

The emails are arriving fast and furious in my inbox: Public relations folks offering up this commentary from a homeschooling expert or that homeschool curriculum to parents who now find themselves doubling as full-time teachers, navigating the new online learning world we’re living in.Read more...

There’s no such thing as a great free VPN. Or, rather, there’s only one free VPN you should trust, and that’s the one you’ve set up yourself. Otherwise, any app that promises you a free and secure VPN service is either tracking what you’re doing, sending off information about your activity to advertisers or investing…Read more...

Remember when you signed up for a new rewards credit card and got pumped to earn your signup bonus? Your plans to book a bunch of flights, pay for the gas for your daily commute, or stock up during your weekly grocery run to earn points have probably flown so far out the window you can’t even see them. Now you’ve got…Read more...

If you’ve been pondering the purchase of a Mac mini but hesitating because of the price, Apple is currently making it that much harder to resist the temptation to click the buy button: The company has finally dropped the 2018 Mac mini into its refurbished store, which means you can pick up the machine of your dreams…Read more...

This month’s theme is doing workouts that make us smile, so this week I asked you all to join me with a Richard Simmons video. If you didn’t have a chance to do it yet, just click here and give it 10 minutes. Or just do the first half.Read more...

Onions are an assertive ingredient, usually used to bring either aggressive astringency or deep, developed umami to a dish. A baked onion, however, does neither, and it still manages to be one of my favorite onions. Butter-baked onions are soft and sweet, with a brothy savoriness that reads almost like French onion…Read more...

If you’ve found your daily routine upended by physical distancing, you may be tempted to treat every moment as a staycation. It would be so easy to sleep 14 hours, eat junk food, and let your beard grow out.Read more...

In the past week, we’ve all had to mentally shift from the “you don’t need a mask, save them for the professionals” mindset to the CDC’s newest recommendation that we should, indeed, be wearing “cloth face coverings” whenever we leave the house. When a family friend sewed and sent us two masks this week (one for me…Read more...

Living in the pandemic means not knowing what the next day will bring, and not knowing how or when it will all end, and whether or not our loved ones will make it through safely. Getting through the pandemic requires cultivating resilience, which is the ability to mentally and emotionally cope with a crisis.Read more...

Whether you’re upgrading or buying a brand-new desktop or laptop, you will one day have to say goodbye to a computer you’ve used for many years. Most of you will try to extract the data from your retired system before you part with it for good. If you’re hasty—because you’re as excited to set up something newer,…Read more...

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Social distancing is crucial to reducing COVID-19's infection curve and keeping us safe, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Sure, we have things like social media, video chats, and a bevy of entertainment options available to us at any time, but it’s harder for people who lack the technological skills to figure all this…Read more...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to develop, you might be concerned about the long-term impact any changes to your finances could have on your credit. Relief checks and delayed payment timelines are helpful, but can they ultimately hurt your credit score or history?Read more...

Easter is this very Sunday and, like most days, you’ll probably want to eat that day. You might even want that meal to feel a little special, and that’s valid. In these chaotic yet surprisingly dull times, a little specialness is required, and that specialness might as well take the form of a ham- or lamb-centric meal.

Here’s the thing about a pandemic: It’s everywhere. Everybody wants to read something reassuring. Everybody wants to say something useful. Everybody thinks their perspective matters. And most of us should just shut up so we can hear the actual experts speak.

When times get tough, adventuring with your friends and rolling natural 20s amid perilous encounters is a thrilling and nerdy way to escape the real world. At least, that’s how my new group of Dungeons & Dragons adventurers feels about our freshman romp through...wherever the heck we are. (I should have been taking…Read more...

If you’re having trouble making ends meet due to job loss, furloughs or other coronavirus-related financial uncertainty, you might be asking yourself which bills you can afford to skip this month. Should you make the credit card payment and put off the water bill, or is it better to do it the other way around?Read more...

If you’re used to running off your stress, running for fun, and maybe running to train for a goal race, the current pandemic has probably put a wrench in all of those plans. Here’s what you can do to keep training despite it all.Read more...

AirPods are easy to misplace, we know. If you recently had to acquire a single replacement AirPod earbud, you might assume that all is now well—your lonely AirPod now has a friend again. However, a number of Apple fans are reporting that their replacement AirPod won’t pair up with their older AirPod, which defeats the…Read more...

If you’re isolating yourself at home with your kids—along with one or more animals—you may have decided that now’s as good a time as any to change your pet’s name. Maybe you never really loved the name to begin with, and now that you’re all in close quarters all day, everyday, for-what-seems-like-ever, you simply…Read more...

Believing in a better future—while still acknowledging the darkness of our present reality—seems almost impossible right now. Doing so may make all the difference.

If you’re grasping at ways to help your kids improve their behavior while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic—or hoping that older children might start to understand the link between behavior and family harmony—it might be time to sit everyone in the family down and ask each of them to write a letter.Read more...

As an avid appreciator of fancy jams and preserves, I am loath to waste even a little of that sweet stuff. If you find yourself in that awkward spot where you don’t have quite enough for toast, you can still eat it for breakfast—just scoop some plain yogurt on top.Read more...

Disney heard—and answered—the prayers of parents everywhere in March when they released Frozen 2 three months early to Disney+. It was a one-hour and 43-minute bright spot at what we now know was just the beginning of a very long, very isolating pandemic. But Disney’s animators and actors are all home right now like…Read more...

At the end of March, egg prices for grocers peaked at $3.01 a dozen, up from 94 cents at the beginning of the month, spurred by the combination of Easter, Passover, and shoppers stockpiling for quarantine. That last one is unsurprising: Adding an egg to a mess compiled of leftovers and beans makes the meal feel…Read more...

The default iOS keyboard in iOS 13 is full of useful features that you might have missed. In the video above, I share three features I use all the time.Read more...

Popular data-breach tracker Have I Been Pwned is closing in on 10 billion compromised accounts. Just think about that for a minute: ten. billion. accounts. To put that figure in perspective, the Earth has around 7.7 billion people on it. It would be as if every single person on the planet had a compromised Facebook…Read more...

Recent world events may have led you to believe that this would be a bad time to not have health insurance right now. And while we can’t judge your individual need for insurance, we can probably say that in general, you should think about getting coverage.Read more...

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Waiting patiently for your coronavirus relief payment from the government? Even if you know payments will be sent out soon, you might still have questions about how you’ll get your money—especially if you don’t typically file taxes, and most especially if you don’t usually file taxes, but you do have kids at home. If…Read more...

As the coronavirus pandemic grips the country, travel restrictions are increasingly going into effect. And while flights and international travel are grabbing the headlines thanks to increased security measures and border closings, it’s also important that we focus on changes to interstate travel within the U.S.Read more...

There’s a virus going around. In general, when your immune system is strong, you’re in a better position to resist infection. So who wouldn’t want to boost their immune system with vitamins, exercise, or whatever foods or supplements might help? But the whole concept is kind of broken.

Not to get all “change your entire life with one weird trick,” but I really do think cleaning the gunky, crusty, drippy lids and sides of your various condiments is a tiny hack that can enhance your mood and improve your overall sense of wellbeing.Read more...