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Sure, it’s Halloween week and most of us are probably using our streaming services to binge all all things spooky. But with Friday comes a new month, new Netflix offerings, and the opportunity to float away on a soothing cloud as the Queer Eye crew gallivants through Japan.

I really like Instagram’s Stories feature. I like to tag businesses I’m at in stories, and friends, and probably spend way too much time during the day looking at what the people I follow are up to (and sharing) on the service. This week Instagram added a few new features to Stories, specifically ones that highlight…Read more...

Did you know that Gmail has a ton of built-in shortcuts? They’re turned off by default, but if you’re a heavy Gmail user you can turn them on to make going through your inbox a bit more efficient.

Amazon is running a promotion today that will allow you to walk away with an Echo Dot for $8.98, a considerable discount from its regular price.

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Stress is something we all have at some point, the difference is in how we deal with it. While it’s definitely easy to let stress slow us down or even cripple us when it comes to completing tasks. This week Fast Company published a story on stress and made a few great suggestions for dealing with it, one: navigate…Read more...

I have officially reached a point in life where traveling involves bringing a handful of liquid toilettes with me. While I was once fine with whatever shampoo and lotion options the hotel provided, now I’m a bit more particular about those things, which means I also have to be a bit more particular about how I pack.Read more...

Halloween is just a few days away. Depending on where you live, it might even be celebrated by your city tonight.

Despite being so new, plenty of third-party apps already support some of the Pixel 4's unique features. One of those apps just happens to be one of our favorite password managers, LastPass, which supports the Pixel 4's biometric unlock capabilities.

Seat belt safety is always important but especially for pregnant women who must wear the belt correctly for their safety and the safety of their unborn baby. There are some products marketed toward pregnant women that claim to make seat belts safer during pregnancy. But many of these products can actually make the…Read more...

Saturday is National Pumpkin Day, a pretend holiday that matters because you can eat some things for free. Here are the pumpkin-themed freebies and discounts, in order of worth-it-ness.

One of the coolest parts of Google’s Pixel 4 is its AI-assisted Live Caption feature, which allows your smartphone to automatically caption any audio being played in your apps. This lets you read along with media playing on sources like YouTube, Twitter, and more.

If you’re the kind of person who gets squeamish at the sight of blood, you might think that horror movies aren’t for you—but you should know that the genre isn’t all gore and guts. Take, for instance, movies like Get Out, A Quiet Place and Paranormal Activity which are (mostly) gore-free.

If you search the phrase “Halloween cocktails,” you will find many recipes for green or purple cocktails with names like “witch’s brew” or “witch’s heart,” or “melted witch.” Most of these cocktails are overly sweet, and few of them enticing.Read more...

Like any sort of vehicle rental, the pricing for moving trucks isn’t always what it seems. You’ll see a great deal—“Moves from $19.95!” or “Reserve for just $20!”—but inevitably, when you call to actually make that reservation, it turns out the cost is often twice that much, maybe more. When you start looking for a…Read more...

The Outer Worlds is out today, and while it’s easy to be wowed by Halcyon, you might need a couple tips to make the most of your time there.Read more...

Chrome 78 is here. With luck, your browser should have already updated by now to the brand-new version, which comes with bug fixes, security patches, and speedier, hovering boxes when you move your mouse over tabs. There are also two fun features buried within Chrome 78 that requires a bit of digging to enable.Read more...

Hopscotch is the perfect activity for kids. It keeps them fairly contained and safe while letting them work off some steam. Plus, it’s fun. But what do you do when it’s cold or rainy outside and the kids need to jump? You bring it indoors with bubble wrap.Read more...

Google Calendar has two new shortcut functions that make scheduling new events or meetings easy. All you have to do is is type “cal.new” or “meeting.new” in Google chrome to be taken straight to the Calendar event creation page. No more having to navigate through the calendar and fiddle around with extra settings.Read more...

Disney+, the newest and cheapest major streaming service, gives you less bang for your buck than Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video. Reelgood, the site that sorts through all your streaming services, calculated how many shows and movies each service offers, in a report provided to Lifehacker.

If you think you’re earning more money than the person you just started dating, it might be a good idea to keep that to yourself—at least for a little while.Read more...

Fancy pancakes at fancy brunch spots are (mostly) a scam. Pancakes have never been hard to make, and any number of add-ins can make them seem much more involved and refined than they are. (They are, however, still delicious, and you should make them in the comfort of your own home.)Read more...

As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing lifetime warranty offers, big luxury sedans under $25k, and a complex multi-car situation.Read more...

According to numerous reports, a recent firmware update—automatic, of course—has killed a number of Google Home and Google Home Mini speakers. There’s no way to tell whether yours could be affected until the firmware update drops (and it should have already, given these reports have been hitting since September or so).

You can do cardio intervals just about anywhere, as we’re discovering during this month’s fitness challenge: your living room is a classic, or you can hop on a bike or lace up your running shoes. But sometimes the simplest choice is to visit the gym and take your pick of the cardio equipment there.Read more...

Parents of infants are both sleep-deprived and sleep-obsessed. It’s important for babies to sleep in order for parents to hope to get a little of their own rest, which is how we can arrive pretty quickly at the “do whatever works” strategy. But more reports are coming out that some of the products parents use—and…Read more...

On Saturday, temporary collection sites will be set up around the country to accept all of your unused, expired, and otherwise unwanted prescription drugs as part of National Drug Take Back day, which will help prevent improper disposal of drugs into our environment or misuse. According to a 2018 survey on drug use…Read more...

Apple’s “Find My” feature can be a powerful tool for recovering lost or stolen devices. It can also be a pain in the ass if you’ve purchased or otherwise legally acquired a used device that’s still tied to another person’s account. In this week’s Tech 911 column, we’re tackling the latter.

The Pixelbook Go is the cheapest Chromebook Google has made to date. Google’s flagship Chrome OS devices typically start at $1,000, so the $650 price tag on the base-level Pixelbook Go is incredible. Compared to other Google-made Chrome OS devices, the Pixelbook Go is a fantastic budget alternative that gives you some…Read more...

Computers can do many jobs more quickly than humans, but they tend to copy our mistakes—after all, they learned it from watching us. Scientists have found that a major algorithm used in hospitals is biased against black patients, because it’s reflecting racial health disparities that already existed.Read more...

When an airline overbooks a flight, they’ll tempt travelers with money, meals or overnight hotel stays in a last-ditch effort to avoid involuntarily bumping passengers. But how do overbooked hotels cope with this same problem?

Dungeons & Dragons may have dungeons and dragons, but its real secret sauce is other people. Dungeon masters and party members make campaigns fun and unpredictable, forcing players into high-stakes games of dice-fueled improv. What do you do, though, when you want to get in on the action, but you also have a bad, dumb…Read more...

Google’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL smartphones officially launch tomorrow. While most people can probably set up their devices by themselves at this point, there’s one little setting you’ll want to know about if you’re big into shooting videos—it’ll help you save space on your device without sacrificing video quality.Read more...

If you are familiar with my oeuvre, you know that I have no qualms when it comes to replacing bread with potatoes. I love a classic, bread-based crouton, but I see no need to limit the genre to one type of carbohydrate.Read more...

School lunches—and the policies that shame the kids of parents who have lunch debt—are in the news again. A school in New Jersey is reportedly now banning students from extra-curricular activities, such as dances and field trips, if their parents owe more than $75. It’s a terrible policy that replaces its previous…Read more...

Google’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL are the latest smartphones to jump on the high-refresh-rate craze, but when your new shiny Pixel is finally in your hand, you may find that its 90Hz screen isn’t always as smooth as you expected.

Researchers have found 17 apps in Apple’s App Store that are infected with malware. While Apple has since removed the malicious apps from the store, if you have an iPhone or iPad, you should make sure you haven’t downloaded one of them prior to that removal.

You do not need special socks to be able to pick up a barbell and put it down again. They are not necessary in any way. But I found my deadlift training sessions went better after I started wearing kneesocks, and I think if you haven’t tried the socks, maybe you should.Read more...

Creative block is over, if you want it. If you’re stuck without ideas in a brainstorm or a project, you just need to use this simple system: consume things, take notes, and bring those notes with you. Here’s how to do that effectively.Read more...

In your quest to find an especially great deal for a flight, you’ll likely come across airlines that seem made up—take Bearskin Airlines, for example, which operates out of Ontario, Canada and is very real. Or Chair Airlines, a Swiss airline that flies throughout Europe and is not a figment of your imagination.…Read more...

You know what’s scarier than goblins and ghouls? MOLD and MICE living in a gourd on your porch.Read more...

While I’m willing to bet that you probably haven’t downloaded any adware from the Google Play Store recently, a new report from ESET indicates that various Android users have downloaded 42 different adware-filled Android apps more than eight million times in total. So, just in case, here’s what’s going on—and a list…Read more...

STIs in the United States have been on the rise in recent years, and many marginalized people who are most at risk aren’t getting tested and treated for them. But remote healthcare is also on the rise—we are moving toward a future where at-home sexual health screening services could ease access to diagnosis and…Read more...

Cinnabon technically makes cinnamon rolls, but the product they put out is almost in a category all by itself. The rolls are stickier, gooier, denser, and more intense than their peers.Read more...

Anyone who’s participated in a beach cleanup is familiar with the classic cup of cigarette butts. The collection of nasty, soggy, chemically remains of cigarettes is the top item—often numbering in the thousands per cleanup—found in the sand in many parts of the U.S. along with other bits of plastic pollution.

Users sarcastically refer to it as “Tinder for moms,” but it really kind of is. The Peanut app, which launched in 2017, is making it easier for moms to make friends and plan meet-ups in their area.Read more...

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Now that we all have GPS and Google Maps on our phones, we’ve gotten pretty bad at reading actual, paper maps and knowing which direction we’re facing. So what’s a modern person to do in the event that they don’t have their phone or a compass and need to know which way is north? Here are a few strategies to point you…Read more...

Android: The Google Creative Lab has kicked six new experimental apps out into the wild, all designed with one purpose in mind—to get you to stop obsessing over every notification, checking every social network, and generally gluing your phone to your face (or hand) for the better part of your day.

Libra season is over. On October 23, Facebook founder and Turing Test dropout Mark Zuckerberg testified to Congress for five hours about the cryptocurrency that Facebook wants to launch next year—but which now might never launch at all. Here’s what went down.