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One of the best gaming monitors, the ASUS ROG Strix 27” Curved Gaming Monitor, is on sale right now. ROG’s line of gaming monitors are the favorite among pros and this $320 FreeSync could help you achieve gaming greatness.Read more...

Over the past few years a good number of my vacations have turned into more of a “we’ll go one weekend” thing rather than a need to make a vacation fit into a particular time frame. That’s to say that rather than looking for flights for a specific weekend in October to make a trip, I might instead be open to going on…Read more...

Last summer Netflix launched a new “Smart Downloads” feature on Android and this week it brought the same feature to iOS.

It seems like there’s a day for everything now, and today is National Pizza Day. While I’d like to argue that pizza doesn’t need a day dedicated to celebrating it, I’m always up for a deal, especially on food, and there are a ton of them to be had to today on everyone’s favorite round meal.

If you have a wirelessly charging phone, you know that you can never have enough charging pads. This 10W charger from Anker is already marked down to $13 from its usual $22, and a $1 coupon on the page lets you save even more.

The Affordable Care Act requires applicable large employers—or an organization that employs at least 50 workers full time—to send Form 1095-C, “Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage,” to employees. If you’ve worked full time for a company for at least one month of the year, you’ll receive the form in…Read more...

There is no such thing as a “girly” drink. There are sweet drinks, bitter drinks, fruity drinks, and stiff drinks, but the gender of a drink will always be fluid. Even pink drinks (which the unimaginative are quick to label as “girly”) are just that—pink. Just as color is not indicative of gender, it’s also fairly…Read more...

When I signed up to eat the planetary health plate diet for 30 days, I forgot two small details: Super Bowl Sunday and Earther was dispatching me to northwest Florida for a story halfway through my first week. So I’ve had a chance to eat at home and away, and you’ll be shocked to learn the latter has been a bit of a…Read more...

If you need a public-facing logo for your business, one that will appear on signs and stationery and ads, one you and your customers will see every day you work, then you should get it professionally designed for several hundred (or thousand) dollars. If you only need something to put on your Facebook page and your…Read more...

It’s finally time, console-gaming Fortnite fans. Epic has created a way for to merge Epic accounts if you created separate logins on your PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and/or the Nintendo Switch. If you’ve purchased V-Bucks or items on a platform you don’t play with regularly, you can now bring everything into your primary…Read more...

We know our children best. We know their strengths and weaknesses, their talents and triggers. It can be easy for us, as parents, to see how little tweaks to a schedule or a shift in policy would help our kids to be more successful in school. And it’s our job to advocate for our kids, right?

So you sent nudes. We live in a digital age, and now more than ever, the nude pic has become something of a dating currency in itself.Read more...

If you’ve paid off a student loan, you know how euphoric it feels to send in that last payment. You’re so happy to be free from the loan’s weight you might throw a party to celebrate, book the vacation you’ve been wanting to take and, of course, toss all of the mail from your servicer to rid yourself of the bad…Read more...

Try as I might to act like I am immune to aggressively cloying nature of February 14th, I actually kind of dig Valentine’s Day. Maybe it’s because my particular brand of anxiety is soothed by a brightly colored and visually uniform grocery store display, but it’s probably thanks to my love of candy,particularly…Read more...

So you worked hard at the gym yesterday, and you’re feeling it now. You’ve got a case of DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) and you just want it to stop. Here’s how to cope, and importantly, how not to.Read more...

I’ve developed a lot of systems I use to keep files and projects connected on my Mac: wiki-link services that connect notes to to-do items, Curio projects that connect emails to projects, and extensive tagging systems to keep all kinds of files together. Each one is, in one way or another, limited in scope (and…Read more...

The most crucial moment of my day is the first three minutes after I get home. I’m at my lowest point. If I’m asked to make a decision or address a problem, I will answer uselessly or irritably. I can’t eliminate that small stupid period. But I’ve figured out how to work around it, by paying attention to my body.

Welcome to our second week of the not-a-plank challenge, where we try out underrated core exercises you should know. Today we’re taking on two exercises named after creatures, both of which are both harder than they look.Read more...

The A.V. Club With Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel made household names out of interstellar second-stringers | Deadspin The Lakers Blew It | Splinter Trump Is Right About One Thing | The Muse In What Men Want, It’s Really Not That Hard to Find Out | The Root A Chicago Teacher Is Accused of Arranging a Brutal Beating…Read more...

It happens to the best of us. You’re going about your day, tapping through your smartphone while navigating around your little slice of the world. Before you know it, you realize that you’ve accidentally done something on your device you didn’t mean to do—at least, that’s the scenario I’m envisioning for this week’s…Read more...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

We’ve all left the “customer copy” of the receipt lying on the table at a restaurant after we’ve finished dinner. Here’s a good reason why you might want to take it with you (and keep it somewhere safe).

All too frequently, people who are good at making a thing get promoted to be the supervisors of the people making the thing—without any training as to how to lead. So how do you become a good boss? Do you pick up leadership skills on the job, or is special coaching required? We find out this week. First, we’ll get a…Read more...

We’ve discussed the importance of using a VPN for web browsing several times before, but almost always in the context of finding a VPN to use alongside your desktop browser (and other activities). However, many mobile developers are baking VPNs directly into their browsers, the latest being Opera on Android.

Preserved lemons are something special. They somehow manage to bring all five flavors to the table. With only two ingredients—lemon and salt—their primary flavors are (obviously) sour and salty, but after hanging out at room temperature for a while, the citrus mellows, developing a gentle sweetness with just a bit of…Read more...

Sex toys are extremely personal items, but people still mostly buy assembly-line stuff. If you’ve graduated beyond the one-size-fits-all sex toy, here’s how you can design the perfect shape for your needs.Read more...

Think about the last time you sat down to finish a financial task. How did you feel before you logged in to your account, or took out your checkbook?

Trading and collectible card games (TCGs and CCGs, for short) can be a lot of work, especially as you start to accumulate boxes and boxes of physical cards.Read more...

I can’t possibly want to follow almost 4,000 people on Twitter. If I followed fewer people, my timeline would be less chaotic and anxiety-inducing. But I have a hard time unfollowing! That’s why I test so many different tools for just this function. And right now, the Marie Kondo-themed tool Tokimeki Unfollow is…Read more...

If you still haven’t downloaded your old images from Flickr, now you have until March 12th to make it happen.

I roast a lot of garlic. The deeply flavorful, slightly caramelized cloves are wonderful pureed into tomato sauce, spread of top of a steak, or smeared directly across a piece of good bread. They are, however, kind of messy to extract from their paper.Read more...

If you’re like me, you were frothing at the mouth when you saw the awesome Walmart LG OLED deals, but then remembered that you spent way too much on Grubhub to be able to afford any of those sets. Luckily, you don’t have to spent over $1,000 to pick up a giant TV for your home theater.Read more...

When the air gets cold and the snow starts to fall, my kids and I head to the ski slopes for hours of skiing fun. When they were small, it was easy to keep track of their location because they spent most of their time on the easier green level slopes with me.Read more...

If you have a child who struggles with anxiety, consider getting them a stuffed animal that will eat their worries away.

Deadspin Report: The Pelicans Invented A New Kind Of Tampering And Used It To Exact Sweet Revenge On The Hated Lakers | Jezebel Hayden Panettiere Hasn’t Seen Her Daughter Lately | The A.V. Club Lords Of Chaos paints metal’s most infamous band as the poseurs they really were | Splinter Jill Abramson Shows Us How Not to…Read more...

When I was a kid, I stumbled across this site called “AllAdvantage” that promised to give you cash for running an obnoxious banner ad at the top or bottom of your operating system. Naturally, I ran that sucker 24 hours a day, using a tiny utility to simulate mouse movements so the advertising bar wouldn’t notice I was…Read more...

Buying a house seems like a distant dream for many people in the U.S. today, particularly for those living in high cost of living areas like New York or San Francisco.

It’s high season in Palm Springs, California, the classic desert resort town with windmills in the backyard, and the subject of this week’s Hack Your City. Read all the travel tips our readers gave in the comments on Monday’s post, and see the best ones right here.

In theory, we date to find a relationship we want to stick with. In practice, people date for lots of different reasons, and it can be hard to figure out if you’re on the same page as the person you’re going out with. Here’s how the women of Reddit make the call.Read more...

These days, our private information is up for grabs and going to the highest bidders. Collectors are targeting us with advertisements in our inboxes and social media accounts. Worse, websites like Facebook clearly affect lives on and off our computers and phones (about that 2016 election..).

During this first half of February, food-focused sites are awash in romantic meals for two but, in a lot of ways, eating with another person is overrated. Not only do you have to worry about stuff in your teeth, but you have to predict how the meal is going to make you feel (or smell). It’s a little exhausting, which…Read more...

If you’re a young adult with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), what got you through college won’t necessarily help you at work.Read more...

As of last week, Fortnite, the biggest game in the world and the bane of high school teachers everywhere, finally allows you to use Bluetooth controllers on mobile devices.Read more...

Here’s your annual reminder that you have until April 15 to contribute to an IRA to potentially lower your 2018 tax bill.

Suddenly, it’s warm again, which means it’s time to strap on a new pair of running shoes and chip away at that winter blubber. For a limited time, Nordstrom Rack’s running a wide-ranging athletic shoe sale from top-tier brands like Nike, Adidas, Asics, Saucony, and more. Between the men’s and women’s sales, over 1,000…Read more...

Between wet toilet seats and those mysterious crumbs in your seat, airplane hygiene, well, leaves a lot to be desired.

Facebook turned 15 earlier this week, and you’ll have to excuse me for not rushing to the bakery and ordering a celebratory cake. It feels like most people don’t want to be on speaking terms with Facebook, even though many still check the site regularly for a quick fix of cute animal pictures, a chance to shit-post at…Read more...

There are only 14 possible ways to arrange a calendar: the year either has 365 days or 366, and it starts on one of the seven days of the week. That means calendars repeat: in 2019 you can use a calendar from 2013, which also had 365 days and started on a Tuesday.

“How do I build a steady reading habit?” asks redditor 6hlooo on r/TrueAskReddit. “I was always the kind of person to read a book and stop reading after a few pages. I know what the benefits of reading are, but I just can’t seem to motivate myself to read consistently. What do I do?” Redditors answer with great tips…Read more...

In this age of corporate hacks and massive password leaks, having a fresh, unleaked password is just as important as having one that’s hard to crack. To that end, Google just announced and launched a new Chrome extension that helps make sure your passwords haven’t been compromised and are still keeping your accounts…Read more...