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I have never understood the point of canned, chopped tomatoes. They rarely taste as good as their whole, peeled brethren, and they never break down fully while cooking, keeping their cube-like shape long after all other ingredients have turned to mush. The culprit? Calcium chloride.Read more...

Ethan Schoonover (known as Mr. E. to his students in Seattle) took to Twitter recently to describe how he started a Dungeons and Dragons club at his all-girls middle school—and how you can, too.Read more...

You can get Anker’s brand new Soundcore Life 2 noise canceling cans for just $45 today with coupon on the page. But, if you want to completely Anker-ize your life, you can opt for the gift set, which includes the headphones, a travel case, a small battery pack, a cable, and cables for the flight.Read more...

As anyone who follows more than, say, 500 people on Twitter knows well, most social media timelines are the digital equivalent of sewage-choked rivers. While, by this point, it’s pretty much impossible to fully unclog these fetid waters, a Twitter plug-in inspired by Marie Kondo’s organizational methods is now here to…Read more...

If you trying to change your body weight, sometimes you need to step on a scale to see how things are going. But it gets dispiriting to judge yourself first thing in the morning, celebrating if you lost a pound or feeling like you’ve been doing everything wrong if you gained one.

Gizmodo Media Group has teamed up with Smartypants Pictures to premiere the second season of The Secret Life of Muslims, a video series with a view on modern Islam you’re not getting on cable news.Read more...

Keeping your browser’s many bookmarks organized is a never-ending struggle. Believe me, I understand the pain; no matter how many extensions I install or how many times I swear I’ll never let my overflowing bookmark toolbar get to this state, it always happens. One day, I’ll learn.Read more...

Let’s say you’re perusing the black market for some leaked passwords when you come across a trove of airline miles. “Interesting,” you think, “I also have some airline miles I’d like to sell! How do I go about doing that?”Read more...

Pandora’s musical curation is a big reason the site still stands out among competition from Spotify, Google, Apple, and YouTube. Professional music analysts listen to tracks and identify common elements, building the Music Genome Project that powers Pandora’s customized user stations. As a Senior Music Analyst, Hannah…Read more...

If you own a Nintendo Switch, all six games that are on sale for $45 right now are basically essential. Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey speak for themselves, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Party are great for get-togethers, and Splatoon 2 and Mario Tennis Aces offer two of Nintendo’s best online multiplayer…Read more...

Enochlophobia, or the fear of crowds, is a very real phobia. And when you’re in the middle of a panicked mob swarming to an exit, that fear seems entirely rational.Read more...

Leave the guess work out of taking care of your sick child with this $10 smart thermometer. Not only does it provide fast and accurate measurements, it also offers advice on what to do next and help track symptoms and what medications should be used.Read more...

At sunset, the Golden Gate Bridge works like a sort of sundial—or a sun calendar. If you want to view the sun setting in the center of the bridge, in the crook of the main span between its two towers, you’ll have to stand in a different spot each evening. Over the year, you can see the perfect sunset from all over the…Read more...

Welcome to AIstrology. With the help of research scientist Janelle Shane, we built a bot to generate monthly horoscopes, trained on about 3,500 extant readings as well as current monthly horoscopes. Each horoscope below is therefore a prediction based on a wealth of predictions for each sign; a distillation of what…Read more...

Typos happen. Now when they happen on Facebook Messenger, you have the option to delete them. Facebook finally started rolling out the ability to delete Messenger messages this week.

Instead of stressing about Valentine’s Day and whether or not you have love in your life, try giving a little love away: Send a sick kid a Valentine.Read more...

It’s been a brutal few weeks in media, as BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, Vice, Gannett and McClatchy laid off thousands of workers. But it’s not just journalists who have been hurting recently: GM is laying off thousands of workers over the next two weeks, Sears’s bankruptcy has imperiled tens of thousands of jobs,…Read more...

My love for boxed mix brownies is strong and true, but—besides a gloriously synthetic funfetti—I have never felt much affection for cake that came from a near-instant mix. They always seemed too sweet, too one-note, and had a distinct chemical leavening agent flavor that was impossible to ignore. But things are…Read more...

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Leaky security, hardware exploits, crashes, broken features—every piece of hardware or software is prone to bugs and vulnerabilities, and it’s likely you’ve had the misfortune of dealing with them at some point in your tech life. While most people grin, bear it, and wait for the problem to fix itself, you can also…Read more...

When it comes to french fries, fast food establishments do it best. It’s not that they use the freshest potatoes (they don’t), or that they have some secret seasoning (it’s salt), or even the fact that they deep fry (it’s a good tactic, but not necessary). The secret, my friends, is that they’re double cooked.Read more...

WhatsApp just got a neat new security feature on iOS. With version 2.19.20, iPhone and iPad users can now lock the app using their devices’ biometric locks—Touch ID or Face ID, depending on your device’s capabilities. Adding the lock requires you to re-authenticate yourself every time you open the app, even if your…Read more...

I live in a twin home in Eastern Pennsylvania that was built in 1925. It is high on charm but low on other things, such as living space, storage and number of bathrooms. As my son has gotten older and playdates have morphed from involving a lot of necessary hovering (“Let’s remember to share!”) to more hands-off,…Read more...

Quality costs money. The cheap version of any exercise equipment, shoes, or gear will never be as good as the good stuff. It will fall apart soon. And you should buy it anyway.Read more...

If you signed up for Equifax’s TrustedID Premier after the credit bureau’s massive 2017 data hack, you’ll need to find a new credit monitoring service, writes Consumer Reports.Read more...

The Root MAGA Super Bowl Suffers Lowest Ratings in a Decade and It’s Probably Black People’s Fault | Deadspin Lonzo Ball To The Suns Is, In Fact, An Extremely Cool Idea | Splinter 21 Savage’s Case Is a Textbook Example of Why ICE Is Worthless | The Slot Taking Kamala Harris Seriously | The A.V. Club At some point,…Read more...

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of everything, is mostly about men. According to Women in Red, an in-house Wikipedia improvement project, less than 18 percent of the site’s 1.5 million biography pages are about women. And that figure actually represents an improvement: in late 2014, the number was 15 percent. A lot of…Read more...

After the longest government shutdown in the history of the country, and more than a little bit of drama, the State of the Union address is officially going down tonight, February 5th.

Apple is taking a slightly stronger stance against apps that try to sucker you in with complicated subscription pricing, but that doesn’t mean that you’re safe from crappy apps that want all of your cash. Our advice? Pretend nothing has changed. Keep examining subscription prices as if you were Benedict Cumberbatch…Read more...

Deadspin How The Patriots’ Defense Put The Rams In A Trash Can | Splinter Here Are The Racist Conspiracy Emails Rotting Right-Wing Billionaire Joe Ricketts’ Brain | Jezebel I Could Have Lived Without Knowing Liam Neeson Wanted to Do a Racist Murder | The Root When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Seattle Police Sergeant…Read more...

I’m a terrible sleeper.Read more...

Google announced Monday that it’s launching a beta for a new Android feature called Live Transcribe, which can accurately create written captions from speech on the fly. It’s an accessibility-focused project made to help people with hearing loss communicate without making special arrangements or purchasing expensive…Read more...

As January and its promise of renewal and resolution fades into a distant glimmer, we’re left to survive the dreariest part of the year. For much of the country, outdoor activities are on hold until we’re in the clear from the next polar vortex, while Sunday’s Super Bowl marked the end of our run of superior food…Read more...

Eating is complicated. Not only is food comprised of complex chemical systems that affect our bodies in all sorts of ways (both good and bad), but once you start thinking about animal welfare, farming practices, and water use, it can be downright overwhelming to try to eat “like a good person.” But that doesn’t mean…Read more...

Ice, once a purely utilitarian beverage commodity, has evolved into an art form as of late. Giant, clear cubes? Ice spheres? Even if your refrigerator has an ice dispenser, you may find yourself wanting some specialized ice trays for fancy drinks.Read more...

My husband and I like having the captions on while we’re watching a TV show so we can keep the volume down without missing any dialogue. Because of that, the captions are almost always on when my son takes over the TV—a fact that frustrated him for years.Read more...

Have you ever picked a song on your phone using Spotify and found yourself looking at a 5-10 second looping video? That’s a “Canvas,” a new type of complimentary content Spotify added last year, similar to Genius’ “Behind the Lyrics” annotations. They’re currently attached to new songs from artists like Ariana Grande,…Read more...

Every morning Flow State emails subscribers a set of background music, mostly wordless, to soundtrack your work day. And they’re pretty good at digging up non-obvious music, some of which isn’t even available on major streaming services (though almost all of it is on YouTube). Past artists include Max Richter, Olivier…Read more...

When you’re ordering food online, it’s all too easy to just add a couple of dollars online as a tip—after all, it beats fumbling around your wallet for spare dollars.

Google has officially adopted the next-gen “RCS” text messaging protocol, which doesn’t really matter right now if you don’t use its Google Fi service. However, the company is also pushing every single carrier to move to RCS from SMS—a much-needed upgrade—and that will have a significant impact on your texting,…Read more...

When it comes to cilantro, the leaves get most of the attention, but smart cilantro eaters know to hoard the stems. You can chuck them in your stock bag along with the rest of your kitchen scraps, or you can chop ‘em up and use them to flavor a big batch of fluffy, Chipotle-style cilantro lime rice in your rice…Read more...

Google+ is going away on April 2, which means all of your Google+ content — including pages, photos, and videos — will disappear with it.

Erica Galos Alioto is a former lawyer who changed careers and began working for Yelp when it had just 15 employees. She helped grow the sales team to more than 2,200 employees over the span of a decade. Now, she works for real estate startup Opendoor, where she oversees human resources, talent, learning and…Read more...

Hipsters, avert your eyes! There’s a really good sale on a 30.5 oz. tub of Folgers Classic Roast Coffee.Read more...

Strength training is good for your muscles; cardio is good for your heart. Both are essential if you want to be a fit, healthy person, but what’s the best way to combine them?Read more...

One of the underlying principles of Lifehacker is that not every hack works for every person. This is especially true of money advice, because everyone’s individual situation and goals will vary dramatically from everyone else’s. You might overspend when using a credit card, for example, so advice on the best rewards…Read more...

I have a Trenta-sized amount of love of the Mac app Amphetamine, because it’s a great way to keep your MacBook from sleeping (or kicking on the screen saver) for any particular reason. And I’m ashamed to admit that it’s taken me a year, if not years, to realize that I haven’t installed a similar kind of app on my…Read more...

Palm Springs has just 48,000 residents but over a million annual visitors. So life is pretty different for those who swing by for a couple of weeks to lounge poolside in December, and the locals who endure the weather year-round: the average monthly highs are a deadly 100°+ all summer. We want tips from both. What…Read more...

Who among us is excited for the triumphant return to the stage of Ray Romano? Not me! But I’m assuming the same people who kept Everybody Loves Raymond on the air for 11 years have been anxiously anticipating Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner, Romano’s first standup special in 23 years, which hits Netflix on…Read more...

I’ve started traveling a lot internationally over the past few years, which means learning new languages.