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If you’re looking for a new wallpaper, a tattoo idea, or just an amazing time scrolling through illustrations from the past, the Biodiversity Heritage Library holds a treat for you. Its thousands of public domain images and digitized books are also educational, collecting observations of the natural world from seven…Read more...

If your tax provider offers to put your tax refund on an Amazon gift card—or any other kind of gift card—say no.Read more...

I do a lot of grocery shopping. At least four times a week, I’ll drop a “going to the store bbiab” into Slack (because I don’t want my coworkers to panic if they can’t get ahold of me, the obvious linchpin of Lifehacker). I know what I’m talking about when it comes to buying groceries is what I’m saying, and you…Read more...

My girlfriend and I do not see eye-to-eye when it comes to rice: She likes brown rice for health reasons and I like white rice for yummy reasons. I know brown rice is supposed to be “healthier” than white rice, but is it so much healthier that I need to make the switch?Read more...

Hey, you paid your credit card bill for the month, right?Read more...

I’m jealous of dog people. You can meet a dog by just walking up to it on the street. A typical dog trusts you instantly. But the average cat must be won over. I talked to three cat behavior experts, who explained why cats are like this, and walked through strategies for making friends with someone else’s cat, even in…Read more...

Soon, every app will have a dark mode, because it looks cooler than a bright white background, period. Google’s latest tweak to its official Google app for Android should bring a dark mode to the app on all Android smartphones. But since this is Android we’re talking about, and yet another Google rollout, your results…Read more...

Even if you’re someone who doesn’t love traveling but has to do it for work, you probably at least appreciate the fact that you get to sleep in a clean, newly made bed every night. And while it may seem like magic (Poof! You get back from your meetings and your room is clean!), there are actual humans behind the…Read more...

If you work out hard on a Monday, you’ll be a bit fatigued on Tuesday. You can still go to the gym, but your performance may suffer a little. That prospect may leave you wondering if you should stay out of the gym until you’re fully recovered, or how pro athletes get away with working out every day. Let’s take a…Read more...

The Instant Pot is good for a lot of things, but I mostly use mine to cook large pieces of tough meats with lot of connective tissue. The device renders them fall-off-the bone tender but, since it’s a sealed cooking environment, this inevitably results in a good amount of flavorful, but quite thin, liquid in the…Read more...

Ring home security devices are supposed to help keep your family and home safe, but it turns out the company uses its products to sell your personal data to third-party advertisers and marketers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently published a report showing that the Ring app contains undisclosed…Read more...

Got your driver’s license nearby? Check to see if it has either a gold or black star in the upper-right-hand corner (if you’re in California, your star will be inside the outline of a bear). Mine does, because I got my most recent driver’s license in 2017; if yours does not, get a new driver’s license as soon as…Read more...

When I told a friend I was pulling together a round-up on the best aluminum-free deodorants in 2020, she said, “How can you write that? You don’t wear deodorant.”

I use WordPress to power my mighty little corner on the internet, and I confess, I’ve been lazy about keeping my various plugins and themes updated. My site is pretty basic, so the thought never came to mind. However, I urge you to visit your WordPress site right now and update everything that needs it, especially if…Read more...

I’ve been on something like six cruises at this point in my life, and at least two of them have included what you might call “emergency medical situations.” There was one sailing in which the ship detoured to the nearest port of call to drop off a passenger who needed medical attention that could not be provided on…Read more...

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Most recipes featuring canned tomatoes will have you squash them with a wooden spoon against the side of your pot. It’s a simple enough motion, but depending on the curvature of your spoon and the stubbornness of your tomato, it can send the whole fruit flying up out of the sauce, which results in splashing (a thing I…Read more...

If you find that it’s hard to look away from your phone, there’s a good reason for that: it was designed that way. A few years ago, former Design Ethicist at Google and founder of the non-profit Time Well Spent Tristan Harris made the rounds, talking about how technology is engineered to be addictive and hijack our…Read more...

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but it’s February and all the charm of the cold is long gone. Since there’s still at least one more month of winter weather, here are some tips for how to stay warm without raising the thermostat.Read more...

Quick: You have two kids with you, one gets hurt badly enough to have to go to the hospital, but the other one isn’t allowed to ride along in the ambulance. What do you do? Or! You slice your finger up real good while prepping dinner and you know stitches are necessary but the kids are running around and your partner…Read more...

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xHelper is the gift that keeps on giving. And by gift, I mean “Android malware;” and by giving, I mean “opening up your system to all sorts of unpleasant attacks.” Like that creature from the Alien movies, the primary goal of xHelper is to persist—it keeps reinstalling itself your phone, even if you factory reset your…Read more...

If you work from home, you’ve probably read every tip you can get your hands on for optimizing your workday. And I’m sure you know all the big ones: set a schedule, shower and get dressed, don’t eat at your desk, get some exercise.Read more...

At some point, I decided to go all-in on having Google Home devices around. I love being able to ask what the weather is, set timers and reminders, and figure out how old an actor is by just asking, so much so that there’s a Google Home device in almost every room of my home now. For the rooms that don’t have one, a…Read more...

We live in a society where we’re all constantly being pulled in different directions. When you’re at work you have to focus on a task, but also pay attention to things like email and Slack, and then there’s that telephone on your desk and that cell phone in your pocket. With tons of distractions out there, it can be…Read more...

If you get a text from someone claiming to be your bank, don’t click on the link. A new mobile phishing scam is texting people in the US and Canada claiming to be your bank. When you click on the included link, you’ll be taken to a website that may look like your bank’s website, but is actually a way to steal your…Read more...

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The Daytona 500, one of the most significant Nascar races of the year, is happening today. Today’s race officially kicks off at 1pm ET/10am PT and will be broadcast on FOX.

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...