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Crises of any kind tend to shift people into a utilitarian, no-frills mindset. This is fine when applied to hand sanitizer and other, less glamorous necessities, but I will not accept it in regards to food. We may all be eating beans for the next few weeks, but there’s no reason those beans should be bland.Read more...

The barrage of COVID-19 information is overwhelming and we all want to stay updated, but you should avoid downloading coronavirus tracker dashboards. According to an investigation by Reason Security, some of these coronavirus maps contain serious malware known as AZORult. Using AZORult, a hacker can steal your browser…Read more...

I’ve been working from home for a number of years now, and there are few things more satisfying than being able to do your laundry and get work done instead of having to waste your precious evening hours on chores. It’s the one silver lining of the coronavirus—the hope that maybe, just maybe, some companies will relax…Read more...

In college, I used to measure out small amounts of caffeine powder on a milligram scale, put it in a gel cap, pop and repeat throughout the day. A two-inch tall mountain of the dusty substance sat Scarface-style on a piece of paper atop my then-boyfriend’s desk next to the scale and alongside a baggie of caps. I was…Read more...

Now that we’re in a bear market—that’s the one where stocks have dropped by 20 percent—you might be asking yourself whether it’s still worth it to put money in your kids’ (or grandkids’) 529 plans.Read more...

With the coronavirus making its way into our communities, we’ve stocked up on disinfectant and hand sanitizer (if we could find it), we’ve finally learned how to properly wash our hands after a lifetime of inadequate lathering, and now we’ve got to get our kids to stop coughing all over the place.Read more...

The Pixel 4a is all-but-confirmed to be Google’s next smartphone, but we’re still waiting on the company to formally announce the heavily leaked device. Until then, if you’re eager for a taste of what the Pixel 4a user experience might be like, you can try out user-made versions of the phone’s wallpapers on your own…Read more...

If you had plans to travel to Europe this summer, and especially over the next month, then Trump’s latest travel ban has likely caught your attention.

Many health insurance companies have voluntarily elected to waive copays, deductibles, coinsurance and other charges on COVID-19 testing. Now, House Democrats are working to pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which will make coronavirus testing free for anyone on a health care plan, including Medicare…Read more...

Whenever I can’t quite figure out what a dish needs, the answer is usually acid. It simultaneously intensifies and balances flavors like nothing else—even when you can’t immediately tell it’s there. To me, a squeeze of lemon or a splash of vinegar is just as transformative as a sprinkle of MSG.Read more...

I like to think that I know a fair bit about investing, but every time I hear someone say “bear market” or “bull market,” I have to double-check what they actually mean. (Is the bear the one where stocks are dropping, or is that the bull?)Read more...

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So you’ve decided it’s time to calmly purchase a few extra containers of cleaning wipes or hand sanitizer the next time you’re at the store. But when you get there, you find that the prices for these ordinary products seem to be unusually high. What gives?

Parents of girls likely know that, with all the pressure from society and peers (and sometimes even family), they need to be on the lookout for signs of eating disorders. But what experts have really only fairly recently started to figure out is that our boys might be at risk for disordered eating, as well—and their…Read more...

Back when I worked at Maximum PC, we were big into Folding. We had a huge team of editors, readers, and computers contributing to Stanford University’s project, which takes your system’s unused resources and dedicates them to protein folding. Your system joins a distributed computing network that processes…Read more...

A recent Buzzfeed investigation discovered that several popular VPN and adblocking apps for Android and iOS secretly collected user data and sent it to Sensor Tower, a cross-platform data analytics service for app developers. The snooping apps include:

Depending on where you live, you may or may not be eating a good bit of food out of cans in the near future. If your budget allows it, I urge you to get the fancy cans—at least a few—to make whatever degree of isolation you find yourself in a little bit enjoyable, or at least bearable. Fancy tinned fish is the move.Read more...

You may have been asked to “work from home” for now, or to prepare to “self quarantine” if you may have been exposed to COVID-19. But there’s some confusion over what this involves. Can you work from a cafe? Walk the dog?Read more...

Your credit history can be one of the more confusing parts of a credit score. Even if you practice good credit habits, your age can seem to work against you. But beyond waiting patiently to graduate to expert level, is there anything you can do to boost your score?

Whether you have multiple personalities or you don’t like dropping your personal phone number into every email you reply to, editing your signature on a per-email basis can get annoying. While plenty of third-party apps allow you to pick from multiple signatures when composing or replying to an email, Google is…Read more...

I gave as many rides as I could in the short time I babysat a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ. “I’d love to rent something like this one day,” one passenger confided. “But I’d be afraid to crash it.” A valid concern I’m happy to try and allay for non-pros who might find themselves behind the wheel of a supercar.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is one of 2020’s prettiest platformers, but don’t let its looks fool you. This game will destroy you. Whether it’s hyper-precise platforming or unrelenting combat, Ori has lots of chances to die. Here are some tips that should make the game a bit less of a gauntlet.

Google is rolling out a dark theme toggle for the Play Store this week, and most devices running Android 9 and 10 should be able to use it. This new setting will force the Play Store to always use the dark theme, regardless of whatever theme you’ve set Android to use by default. There are also options to force the…Read more...

If you’ve ever worked from home with little kids underfoot, even for a day, you know it’s no joke. Kids are demanding, work requires concentration—the two don’t exactly mix.Read more...

Until just now, the World Health Organization did not want to call COVID-19 a pandemic. Today they decided to start using that word.Read more...

There are a lot of people trying to make money off coronavirus anxiety right now, whether by charging $79 for a bottle of Purell, selling counterfeit face masks on Etsy, or claiming that you can cure COVID-19 with essential oils.

You know to wash your hands, stay home if you’re not feeling well, and resist the urge to hoard hand sanitizer. But there’s another task you can complete if you’re feeling fine and proceeding with a mostly normal daily life: Tip generously.Read more...

The cinnamon roll is an honest pastry. Immediately, upon hearing its name, you know exactly what you are getting into. There is going to be cinnamon, and it is going to be rolled. Making cinnamon rolls requires a not-small number of steps, and one of those steps is cutting the one large roll of cinnamon roll into…Read more...

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Kids these days love two things: TikTok and school supplies.Read more...

So you want to wear a nice hat, do ya? Fine. Then you need to learn how to wear it like a proper lady or gentleman.

People share passwords for their various streaming services all the time. Whether you personally take part in this practice or not is your own ethical gray area to manage, but it’s a common practice in the digital world: You trade me a spot in your Netflix family and I’ll give you my Hulu access.Read more...

Some kids are going to be satisfied with your claims that broccoli florets are “little trees” that they, a monster, must devour. And other kids are going to be like, “Broccoli is gross and so is eating trees, and I’m not falling for that shit.”Read more...

Last Wednesday I traveled from San Francisco to the Maldives with a connection in Switzerland, a journey I returned home from this morning with a connection last night through Singapore. It was a trip I wasn’t entirely sure was going to happen. A few days before my flight my original departure was canceled because it…Read more...

Following Nest’s and Ring’s leads, the smart-home security camera companies Arlo and Blink announced they are making two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users by the end of 2020.

Is a higher credit score on your financial wishlist? Make sure you’re not paying a scammer to get one.Read more...

Elderberry syrup? Vitamin C? If you’re looking for extra protection from the coronavirus, please put those back on the pharmacy shelf and go home and wash your hands. Yes, even if Doctor Oz just told you to buy them.Read more...

Since you might just be working from home right now—if you’re lucky, and your company is sane—why not give yourself a much-needed productivity break with a little Netflix? Or Hulu? Or some HBO? Heck, why not watch all three? Not at once, of course; you don’t have the attention for that, nor are you paying that many…Read more...

Snack boards, whether they be cheese or charcuterie based, are never just cheese and/or charcuterie. For a truly balanced board, you need pickles, a jam or honey, and other salty, crunchy, and piquant bits and pieces to highlight and complement the main attraction. You also need a scallion.Read more...

If your child uses Singulair (or a generic version) to manage their asthma or allergies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants you to know they could be at a higher risk for mental health side effects, including agitation, depression, sleeping problems, and suicidal thoughts and actions. The FDA, out of concern…Read more...

An unlucky batch of third-generation iPad Airs has a defect that causes the display to go permanently blank, and there’s no way to fix it without getting it repaired.Read more...

Once you buy insurance for your car and your house, you might think you’re done. You’re covered if something goes wrong, right?Read more...

A few weeks ago, in an attempt to breathe new life into some leftovers, I added a dollop of crème fraîche to a bowl of pork ragu. It melted, forming a creamy, tomato-y sauce that was very rich and very delicious. “I bet this would slap in some mac and cheese,” I thought.Read more...

Many of us are asking ourselves what we can do to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Some of us are also asking ourselves whether we can afford to get tested for COVID-19, should we come down with symptoms—and how much we’ll have to pay for treatment.Read more...

While thousands of cases of COVID-19 have been documented in other countries, most parts of the US are only now seeing a few positive tests pop up here and there. But we also haven’t been testing for the coronavirus as thoroughly as other countries have. I’d bet good money that, wherever you are in the US, there are…Read more...

One problem a smoothie noob might notice is that they need to add way more liquid than they initially thought. Add too little, and you end up with a fruit sludge—a tasty fruit sludge, but a sludge nonetheless.Read more...

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At nine years old, my son and his friends most often crave two things: more independence and more time to hang out. We also happen to be in that in-between distance from our home to his school—we live too close to qualify for school-bus pick-up, but too far for me to feel comfortable with him walking the route alone.…Read more...

Apple recently updated its App Store guidelines to allow apps to blast you with push notifications that contain advertising, marketing, or other promotions. The move doesn’t come as much of a surprise, given that Apple has been doing this within its own apps for years—everyone remember those annoying enticements you…Read more...

Silica gel packets are common in most items we unbox, but what do they do? It says pretty clearly not to eat them, so how else can they be reused around the house?Read more...