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When you find a particularly fantastic deal for a hotel stay at a beach town, you might see the rate skyrocket when you agree to book—these are “resort fees.”

Despite the recent inclusion of new automatic troubleshooting and problem-solving tools, the version 1809 update for Windows 10 introduced quite a few bugs. One of the latest (and more annoying) quirks is an issue that prevents your computer from shutting down or going to sleep in a timely fashion.Read more...

Bitters are used (almost entirely) to round out the flavor of cocktails, adding subtle—but much needed—bitter, herbal notes. Unless you’re a fan of bitters and soda, you rarely get a taste of the bitters themselves; they just make other things taste better.Read more...

Amazon has announced its annual Prime Day festivities, this year taking place over two complete days on July 15 and 16 with over a million deals.

There are still cowboys driving livestock across America in 2019. While most of us are snoozing, they’re rolling up to dark fields with trucks full of creatures that are critical to our nation’s agriculture: thousands and thousands of bees.

The idea is so engrained we hardly even question it anymore—while our kids spend their summer vacation sleeping in, watching TV, swimming and playing freeze tag at camp, all that precious knowledge they learned throughout the school year is melting away.

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You can google up a recipe for anything, including sunscreen. Places like Pinterest are full of instructions for blending natural oils with zinc oxide to make something to protect yourself from the sun. Unfortunately, a DIY approach isn’t likely to make an effective sunscreen.Read more...

Parenting (from what I hear, anyway) is essentially a lifelong exercise in figuring things out as you go. Along the way, your kid has almost certainly been in a situation where you’ve wondered, hoo boy, are they going to have to discuss that with a therapist in a few years?Read more...

It’s an exciting time for Democrats who want to be president, with so many of them running at this early stage that we’re having two debates this week to accommodate 20 leading candidates. Twenty!

When you book a flight through travel booking sites like Vayama or Google Flights, you hope you’re getting the best deal, but here’s the catch: Many low-cost carriers airlines prevent their flights from showing up on some of these third-party travel websites.Read more...

If you have two cats that aren’t getting along, Reddit user cputnik has a simple solution: Scratch them each affectionately under the chin with the same hand, repeatedly. “This will mix their pheromones together,” says cputnik, “and eventually they’ll think they’re from the same pack and share pheromones themselves…Read more...

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Even just reading about ticks makes me immediately spot check my limbs and start feeling itchy. (Sorry in advance for what this story will do to you.) But at the same time, I’m so paranoid about ticks that I can’t help but click on anything that might improve my chances of avoiding those little suckers, even slightly.

The public betas for iOS 13, macOS Catalina, iPadOS, and tvOS 13 are finally available. Here’s a quick recap of how to sign up, and what testers can expect from these beta builds.

Some people are adept at being emotionally present enough with their partner to regularly check in, voice appreciation and send a sweet or funny text just because. And some people are ... not.Read more...

For decades we’ve been able to buy devices that play noises that are supposed to repel mosquitoes, and for just as many decades they have been completely useless. Now, instead of buying a device, you can now download an app. Guess what? It still won’t work.Read more...

I don’t know if carrots (as a whole) are underrated or overrated, but I do know that grilled carrots are almost criminally overlooked. Yes, it’s hard to compete with grilled corn, but a grilled carrot is a smoky, sweet, and charred miracle and I am here to demand that you pay attention to them.Read more...

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When you join a new job, there’s a lot you need to learn beyond the official orientation. You need to figure out your unspoken responsibilities, the relationships between people and departments, and a little of the office gossip. If your workplace uses the chat app Slack, you can pick up a lot of that info by…Read more...

While looking through a particularly beautiful Airbnb listing, you might think to yourself: This place is too good to be true. You browse the listing’s photos, read about its amenities—which include a pool and a sundeck—and it’s around this time when you discover the listing has zero reviews.Read more...

We all know the stereotypes. Only children are maladjusted. They’re selfish, spoiled brats. Only children are, quite simply, weird. And by not having more kids, you’re selfish, too, doing lifelong damage by depriving your child of the all-important Sibling Relationship.Read more...

We all know the advice to “eat what’s already in your pantry,” but we also know the reality: we eat our favorite stuff first and leave the rest of the food in there until we’re faced with the option of either A) eating twelve cans of beans in a row or B) buying more groceries.Read more...

Eating steak for breakfast is a bold move. On a scale from one to lumberjack, it’s about a nine. But even if you consider yourself a Ron Swanson type, beginning your day with a porterhouse is setting yourself up for sleepiness, and some cuts are more suited to a morning meal than others.Read more...

When I told my friends that I was planning to attend the opening weekend of Disneyland’s new “Star Wars land,” otherwise known as Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, they had one common reaction: horror.Read more...

There’s something about their curious eyes. Their rhythmic breaths. Their warm, comforting bodies. Somehow, it seems impossible to feel anxious while reading to a dog.

The 2020 Census is coming, did you hear? And while the decennial survey is not without its problems, it’s a huge undertaking that requires many, many people to make it happen: half a million people, actually. That massive hiring effort is happening now, because the census kicks off in August.Read more...

According to multiple reports, Netflix is testing a new pop-out player for those who use Netflix’s website to stream their favorite shows. While I tend to only use Netflix’s apps, there’s something elegant about this new approach—if you have access to the feature, clicking a little button on Netflix’s player will…Read more...

Sort through your mail on any given day and it’s likely you’ve received a lot of waste—from junk mail to unnecessary packaging materials. Luckily, you can recycle some of those pesky plastic mailers and pretty easily, too.Read more...

In some cities, the nicest thing you can do is shovel someone’s driveway. In some, it’s to lend them shade. In some, it’s to let them pass on the freeway, or top off their parking meter. In your city, what’s the best favor someone can do for someone else?

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Can’t wait for Spider-Man: Far From Home to hit theaters on July 5? Get your summer spidey-fix this week with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wednesday), the highly acclaimed animated feature from 2018. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and critics loved it. I, of course, have not seen it and…Read more...

If you’ve purchased Ragú pasta sauce this month, you should check the packaging to make sure it hasn’t been recalled.

On Monday evening SpaceX will attempt the Falcon Heavy’s “most difficult launch ever,” its first nighttime launch for the vessel which will be ferrying multiple satellites into orbit.

We’ve recently had a bit of a heat wave in San Francisco. It’s exceptionally rare for temperatures to get higher than 80 (although less so in recent years), which means most people don’t have air conditioners much less any idea of how to deal with the heat.

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If you’re redeeming reward miles for an international trip on United, there’s an easy way to get a little more bang for your virtual buck: plan a trip with at least three legs.

In San Francisco, it started with The Museum of Ice Cream, a “museum” downtown where for $38 dollars you can snap selfies of yourself next to a unicorn or submerged in sprinkles in the building’s “sprinkle pool.”

The 50th anniversary of the moon landing is happening in just a few weeks, but Krispy Kreme is celebrating a little early by passing out free doughnuts today, one of the chain’s original glazed doughnuts that is filled with cream.Read more...

Because we are not above lazy parent hacks (may we present to you how to entertain your kid while lying down?), we are sharing this one. Attach a baseball (or any similar-sized ball) to a fishing rod, hold it steady, have your kid take a swing, reel the ball in, and then repeat this all damn day. Ridiculous, sure, but…Read more...

The next time you go to order pizza, or call someone to repair an appliance, make sure you aren’t getting scammed by a representative of a business that doesn’t actually exist.Read more...

Happy summer solstice, cats and kittens! Today is not only the longest day of the year, but the official beginning of summer or, as we like to call it, “patio pounder season.” What’s a patio pounder, you ask? It’s very simple: a summer sipper that goes down a little too easily, best consumed out of doors. And boy, do…Read more...

Your kid doesn’t want to do it. Clean his room. Finish her book report. Practice violin. Whatever the impossibly hard thing of the moment may be. As a parent, you might be tempted to resort to nagging, but that will just make everyone more frustrated. A better way to motivate kids, according to research from the…Read more...

In a perfect world, we’d all get to bed on time, enjoy our full seven to nine hours of sleep, and wake up refreshed at the same time every morning. But while that may be the goal, I’m guessing most of us enjoy the extra shut-eye that a day off allows. So how bad is it to sleep in on the weekends?

On Wednesday, lawmakers passed ranked choice voting for presidential elections in the state of Maine—which would effectively mean ditching its caucuses for a presidential primary based on voter preferences. Ranked choice voting is exactly what its name suggests; rather than vote for any single candidate, voters have…Read more...

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Many of us are feeling some combination of despair, outrage, and shock at reports of the conditions at the U.S. southern border. It’s devastating to learn that our government is separating children from their families, cramming people into overcrowded detention cells, and preventing refugees from accessing basic…Read more...

Whenever I plan a trip somewhere, it feels “official” once I book the flights, train tickets or rental car, but I’m never quite sure when to book a hotel. Should I do it as far ahead of time as possible to secure the best deal? Or should I wait until I’m actually at the destination and try my luck at Hotels Tonight or…Read more...