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Tomorrow is President’s Day. It’s a federal holiday, which means a lot of people are off work, it also means a lot of places that are typically open on Mondays are closed.Read more...

When you’re buying new glasses, shopping online can be an easy and often cheaper alternative to visiting a traditional eyeglass store. As it turns out, depending on your prescription, it can also mean that those glasses you buy might not be quite as useful.

An electric razor, a portable air compressor, Sealy mattresses, and a 40% off Nordstrom Sale are some of Sunday’s most enticing deals on the web.

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If you’re looking for something to watch this holiday weekend, now you have one more place to look. Redbox, the company behind those DVD rental boxes at gas stations and grocery stores, launched its own free television service this week.

Train travel can be a relaxing, low-stress way to get around the country while also catching some of it out your window during your journey.

If you’re paying for your YouTube TV subscription through Apple’s App Store, now’s the time to switch your payment method.

Here we go again: The latest Windows 10 patch, KB4532693, might stick you with an annoying bug. Some Windows users who have installed it have reported that their Windows user profile—and all the data and apps therein—weren’t loading when they logged in.

Fitness classes can be motivating in a way that exercising by yourself is not. Somebody’s pushing you to go the distance, to do that next rep, and with luck they’ll drown out the part of your brain that’s tempting you to go home and have dinner already.Read more...

Ninety percent of the drinks I order at cocktail bars are Negronis. The holy trinity of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth possess a near cosmic, peanut butter and jelly-esque affinity for each other that renders their combination almost error proof. Too much gin? Still pretty good. Super shitty ice? Whatever. Totally…Read more...

Making friends doesn’t come naturally to all of us—or to our kids. Or sometimes, the making part isn’t as challenging as the keeping part. But it’s heartbreaking to think our kids might be lonely or excluded from their peers, particularly at school. But how much—if anything—can parents do to help without being…Read more...

Another day, another batch of crappy Chrome extensions that you shouldn’t be using. Once again, Google has identified a number of bad actors its Chrome Web Store and given them the boot—but that doesn’t automatically remove these malware extensions from your browser, so you might want to do a quick cross-reference of…Read more...

A $4 Nite Ize DoohicKey Key Keychain Multi-Tool, a Jachs Outerwear Clearance Sale, and a discounted Mpow 29-Inch Sound Bar are some of Friday’s top bargains across the whole dang internet.Read more...

Every budget traveler knows a particular flavor of regret: that moment when you’re standing in the security line at 5 a.m., cursing yourself for picking the cheapest flight on the schedule.

Last Valentine’s Day, I bought myself a box of chocolate truffles—not the cheapo stuff you can grab at any grocery store, but the locally made, high-quality confectionary where you pick out exactly which truffles you want and they wrap a gold ribbon around the box for you.

Today is Valentine’s Day, and some of you are probably scrambling to purchase a heart-shaped box of chocolate. Don’t do it. Wait another 24 hours, and you’ll be able to get the same twee candy for a deeply discounted rate.Read more...

Hello, Upgrade listeners! We’re speaking next week with behavior change expert BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, for an upcoming episode. So we want to know: what are some habits that you are trying to make or break? What advice can our expert give you on how to reach your…Read more...

We’ve worked our crush grip with grippers and our support grip with hangs and deadlift holds. Now it’s time for another type of grip strength: the pinch grip.Read more...

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Valentine’s Day is sort of a confusing holiday. It’s a modern “Hallmark Holiday” that is probably rooted in an ancient bloody Pagan goat- and dog-sacrificing festival of sorts. But do we need to get into all of that with our kids? I vote no. That is one thing they can figure out on their own, in due time. For now, we…Read more...

It’s happened to most (if not all) of us, and it’s supremely embarrassing. You’re sitting there late at night, and scrolling through an old friend/hook-up/partner’s Instagram feed. Everything is fine until your finger twitches slightly and you accidentally “like” one of their posts from 47 weeks ago.

The Internet was spell-bound last week when photos emerged of Tennessee state representative Kent Calfee drinking what appeared to be straight-up Hershey’s syrup.Read more...

Mozilla is about to remove the Nightly beta of its new Firefox Android browser from the Google Play Store, leaving only Firefox Preview for users to try. It’s worth swapping over from the Nightly build to this browser right now, or giving it a peek for the first time, but there’s one small catch: Only one extension is…Read more...

There’s nothing like a YouTube video when you want to do a workout but just want everybody to leave you the heck alone. No classmates, no passers-by on the sidewalk, and you can even ignore the people you live with if you find a room to yourself and close the door. Ahh, peace. Now queue up one of these:Read more...

Alaska Airlines announced a new “West Coast International Alliance” today with American Airlines, an alliance that will bring with it a few solid advantages for customers.

Whether you’re migrating from a work email address to a personal one or simply don’t like the username you chose out of the blocks and want to switch to one that sounds more professional, you are not alone in looking for a way to move all of your Gmail data from one place to another.Read more...

You can now watch the Oscar-winning animated short film Hair Love on YouTube—and you should. With your kids. Because ignorance and/or racism about the hair and hairstyles of people of color still abounds and this sweet film is the perspective we need.Read more...

When I moved out of the home I had been sharing with my ex-husband just over four years ago, I was completely wrecked. I had been in a committed relationship with him since I was 19, and had moved directly from my mother’s home into his just before my 21st birthday. We lived apart during the two years I was wrapping…Read more...

A condom that can actually kill sperm sounds like a pretty good deal when it comes to birth control, right? But it turns out they aren’t any more effective than regular condoms, and they can actually increase your risk of STDs.Read more...

I’ve done three solo Disney trips in the past three years. Two visits to Disneyland, and one to Walt Disney World. Each time, I had an absolutely incredible vacation all by myself—and I’d recommend solo Disney travel to anyone who’s ever wanted the pleasure of experiencing a Disney park at their own pace.Read more...

Few things eat through data caps as quickly as a new season of your favorite Netflix show, but Android users can now reduce the app’s impact on their monthly data limits without reducing video quality. That’s all thanks to the the open-source AV1 video codec, which Netflix now supports for Android streaming.Read more...

People love to brag about how little they pay for their cell phone plan. But ask them how they got a rate so low, and they’re bound to tell you one of two things: Either they’re on a family plan, or they’ve been on the same plan for 14 years and have been grandfathered into some sort of amazing unlimited service.Read more...

If you’re interested in financial independence, whether you want to see if you can accumulate enough capital to retire early or just want the kind of financial stability that lets you live your life as you choose, there’s a two-step path to getting there.Read more...

If you’ve given up valuable counter space for an air fryer, getting the most out your loud, boxy appliance becomes a priority the moment you unpack it. Luckily, it has many uses, from restoring leftovers to their former glory, to making delicious, yet nutritious, veggie-heavy snacks.

If it seems like our kids are more scheduled, more anxious and more pressured than ever before, it’s because they probably are. It can be challenging for them (and us!) to find ways to unplug and relax. But for kids as young as preschool age, a few minutes of meditation every day can teach them how to stop, focus and…Read more...

President Trump’s budget for fiscal 2021 dropped this week, and it’s a doozy. Among the hundreds of pages of planned changes, you’ll find that Trump wants to cut $5.6 billion from Department of Education funding—that’s a 7.8% decrease.Read more...

Twitter can be a cesspool full of bots, trolls, and Reply Guys. Luckily, there are some built-in privacy and security tools you can use to minimize the amount of garbage in your feed. In the video above, I show you how.Read more...

Sometimes, you want to be alone, but your coworkers, pets, or kids won’t go away. Goodbye, productivity. Thankfully, there are plenty of techniques you can use to carve out a little bubble of comfort for yourself when you’re trying to burn through all the items on your to-do list.

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Nearly four years after we first told you about it, nutrition labels are finally changing. Calories are more prominent, “added sugars” is in while “calories from fat” is out, and the serving size is, in many cases, the whole package. Welcome to the future.Read more...

Samsung’s February 11 “Samsung Unpacked” event featured several new devices, including its next attempt at a foldable smartphone: The Galaxy Z Flip. Unlike the Galaxy Fold’s vertically folding screen, the Z Flip folds horizontally like old-school flip phones—not to mention Motorola’s recently released Razr smartphone.

If you’re thinking of going on a trip over the next few months, Southwest is having a fare sale right now that might be worth a look. The airline is offering one-way flights between a number of different destinations in the United States for $69 each way, making it so you can potentially go on that adventure for $138…Read more...

The social aspect of exercise can be fun and all, but not all of us are up for chitchat when it’s time to get a workout in. Here’s how you can exude the right keep-away vibes to work out in a public gym with minimal interruptions.Read more...

A clip of former NBA star Dwyane Wade talking to Ellen DeGeneres is making the social media rounds this week as a heartwarming example of how every parent should react if their child tells them they identify as LGBTQ+.Read more...

I enjoy sharing food with other people in an extreme way, but I’m also an enthusiastic and unapologetic solo diner. If the many articles written about the subject are to be believed, the main challenge facing the solo diner is social anxiety, embarrassment, and shame. As someone who has never felt that last emotion, I…Read more...

I didn’t set out to be the parent of an only child; it just sort of worked out that way. And because my husband, son and I were a foster family for a couple of years, my son’s only-child status might seem a little more pronounced to me than it would to most parents. For my son, it’s not a matter of not knowing what…Read more...

After much anticipation, Pokémon Home came out Tuesday—but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from checking your phone. For whatever reason, the catchall Pokémon storage center does not appear if you search for it on a mobile device’s app store.Read more...

Wondering how to increase your credit score? The first step to making an improvement might be simple awareness.

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Last year was the first year we implemented the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into our tax prep, and a lot of people were surprised to learn that their tax refund would be smaller than usual. However, that doesn’t mean that the new tax legislation is bad for your bottom line.Read more...