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Your federal income taxes are going to look a little different this year, thanks to the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. Credits and deductions have changed, as has your 1040.

Hack Your City is off to Copenhagen, home of Hans Christian Andersen, the Tivoli Gardens, and Danish political drama Borgen. What pleasures are buried deep in the hygge heart of Denmark? We’d like your best advice for visiting and living in Copenhagen.

The Edge of Seventeen is a solid, engaging, entertaining teen movie in the mold of John Hughes, and you should definitely watch it if you haven’t seen it (Friday). Hailee Steinfeld is an interesting actor! If you have a teenage kid, you could watch it with them and then have a productive conversation! Or, you could…Read more...

We live in a world where we’re all constantly multitasking, which can make focusing on just one thing a challenge. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom think they’ve come up with a solution in the form of a game.

I admittedly don’t stay up to date on a lot of celebrity gossip. That means I don’t typically know who an actor is dating or that they just had a baby. I also don’t know when someone has been accused of sexual harassment or assault unless it’s a story that’s gotten a Weinstein-level of attention.

One of the most popular musicals of all time, Rent, is debuting in your living room tonight for one night only. FOX is airing Rent: Live! this evening at 8pm ET, with a tape delay for folks in other time zones. The live broadcast is going to be directed by Michael Greif, who directed the original stage version, and…Read more...

Unlocked Nokia Phones, a Biofreeze Gold Box, metal network switches, and a haunted teddy bear lead off the Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

There’s an amazing ramen place around the corner from our apartment that my boyfriend and I end up at probably once a week. For a while, we were just walking in for a table when we got hungry, which actually works most of the time. Then I realized they were on OpenTable.

If you have over 1,000 photos uploaded to Flickr, then you should download them now or risk losing them forever.

Fujifilm Instax cameras, dog clothes, and a Chugmate Wine glass lead off the weekend’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

PetFusion makes some of the highest rated cat scratching posts and loungers out there, but today, they’re offering big savings on a new product that’s totally unique.

The cure for a bad mood might be as easy as going outside.

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

The middle-class have financial challenges, but if you’ve never been truly poor, there are some things about how it affects your life that can be hard to grasp. So, let people who have experienced it tell you.Read more...

Jam is a constant on most breakfast tables, but one usually finds it on toast, not in cocktails. Beyond boosting your bread and butter, really good fruit preserves can sweeten and mellow almost any cocktail, giving it a friendly, welcoming vibe that’s perfect for a.m.-imbibing.Read more...

I can still remember the day I got my first period. I was 12 and I was home from school on a cold day in January. Though I had been given books and “the talk” about the changes that were coming to my body, when I saw that splotch in my underwear, I genuinely thought I might be dying. Though I quickly realized what was…Read more...

You wake up. You groggily pull up your laptop or sit in front of your desktop with your delicious coffee nearby. Once your system loads, you load up Google Chrome, and you think how nice it will feel to get rid of all of those open tabs someday. You open a new tab anyway and start your morning content ritual.

On the market for a new home? This one comes with a hefty discount.

Recently, the editorial staff of Lifehacker and our sister sites needed to congregate in the office at 10 a.m. sharp. The people announcing this thanked us for showing up “at such an ungodly hour.” I grinned and arrived, as I usually do, at 8:55ish. I’m regularly the first Lifehacker staffer in the office. Partly…Read more...

There’s nothing worse than opening up your Netflix account to find a blacked-out screen with the caption: “Too many people are using the account.”

If I’m craving real Mexican food, I do not go to Taco Bell. I go to Taco Bell when my raccoon brain demands it, which is often, so my packet drawer is quite full of their colorful little sauce packets. Sometimes I drizzle the FIRE! sauce on a non-Taco Bell item, but that feels a little weird, particularly when the mas…Read more...

If you’ve been jumping rope with us all month, you’ve probably mastered the basic jump and maybe even a few fancy moves. So how can you put your new skill to use in a full workout? Here are some ideas.

Back in the day, all the big singers shared the same songbook: a canon of folk tunes, jazz standards, and borrowed Broadway numbers. Louie and Ella and Duke and Nina and the boy bands and the girl groups, they were all sharing the same songs up until the middle of the last century, when things settled down. Now we…Read more...

Now that plastic straws are evil, you can replace them with these metal ones, now just $8 for a pack of eight after you clip the $1 coupon. I use these at home, but you could definitely keep one in your purse or bag to use when you’re out and about as well.

Packing your lunch for work is a great way to eat healthy and save money, and this stacking, microwavable bento set makes it easy. Use code H3FEQU4I to get the set for $13, which includes two containers, two vented lids, and stainless steel utensils. And once you get home, it’s dishwasher safe too, so you can…Read more...

Earlier this week, I offered suggestions for waking up kids who are not, er, morning people. As expected, I heard from a lot of you who, like me, have the opposite problem: Kids who are not only awake but fully energized for the day ahead. At ungodly hours of the morning.Read more...

Many of us are fascinated by routine—whether it’s making fun of a celebrity’s, well, ambitious schedule, or curating ours to maximize our time, there’s an entire sub-section of media devoted to detailing how “successful” people organize their days (in fact, those routines partially inspired Lifehacker’s Wake Up Week).

Picking “the best” phone carrier has never been easy, since you never really know what kind of service you’re going to get until you’re already stuck with a new carrier (and/or phone). Thankfully, mobile broadband industry analyst OpenSignal has a few more data points to play with—more than 3 billion per day, in…Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration has reportedly halted flights into LaGuardia Airport, one of the busiest airports in the United States and one of the three main airports serving the New York City area, because of air traffic control staffing shortages. The United States has entered into its 35th day of the…Read more...

The A.V. Club For better or worse, Man Of Steel is the exact Superman movie Zack Snyder wanted to make | Splinter A Stone’s Throw From Jail | Deadspin Jamal Adams Says He Didn’t Mean To Send The Patriots Mascot To The Hospital | The Slot Crime Time for Roger Stone | The Glow Up Baby Hair and Afros: Blue Ivy’s Natural…Read more...

What we do in the morning can establish our mood for the rest of the day, so a lot of our wake-up advice boils down to doing what you actually need and want to do. Which means it’s time to confront that little box that keeps interrupting you to tell you what to think. Your phone.Read more...

As we round out wake-up week here at Lifehacker, I hope that you, like me, look forward to a generous pour of Tech 911 every Friday a.m. This week, we’re taking on a question that I’ve been curious about for some time—not that I’m never not curious about your questions, but this one is a topic that’s bounced around my…Read more...

I’ve never met Marie Kondo and I’m a little too intimidated to watch her show but my gut tells me she would appreciate the space-saving design of these monitor and TV stands. And right now, Amazon is lowering the price on number of products designed to organize your desk and living room space.Read more...

Shark clearly wants to take a bite out of Dyson with its aggressive move into the cordless vacuum space, and now you can get the X40 stick vac for just $196. That’s not as cheap as we saw around the holidays, when it got as low as $150, but it’s still over $100 less than its launch price.

Deadspin Let’s All Calm Down About Tony Romo | The A.V. Club Sorry, but those DNA tests you took are mostly bullshit | Jezebel Rewriting the ‘Fairy Tale’ Adoption Narrative | Very Smart Brothas I Don’t Know How We’re Going to Make It Through This Campaign Season Y’all | Splinter The Smearing of Nathan Phillips |Read more...

Tired of your 9 to 5? You’re in luck.

Do we want to talk to our kids about sex? No.

There is something elegant and indulgent about a baked egg, topped with a pinch of cheese and sprinkling of fresh herbs. Shirred eggs—which is a fancy name for baked eggs—seem very special, but they can be cooked up in mere minutes in your toaster oven, making them a perfect easy breakfast for one (or two, if you are…Read more...

People with office jobs spend a large part of their waking hours sitting at a desk, one probably chosen for its utilitarian qualities. As long as you’re there, why not make it a more pleasant place to be?Read more...

There’s nothing wrong with your smartphone’s alarms. As long as they wake you up in the morning, they’ve accomplished their primary task, and you should commend them for not forcing you to resort to more extreme measures to get out of bed.

Anker’s original PowerCore Fusion combined a wall charger and a battery pack into our readers’ favorite piece of travel charging gear, and now, you can save 20% with a launch discount on a brand new version (use promo code FUSIONEW) .

How’s your no-spend month going, friends? Truthfully, I hit a few hiccups the last few days, including a wine-fueled Etsy purchase. If you’re having a little trouble too, here’s a tip from Reddit that might help curb impulse purchases.

We love to test hacks and report whether they’re good or bad. But some hacks aren’t worth anyone’s time. And yet these bizarre and stupid hacks are spreading on Facebook and YouTube, getting millions of views. In the video above, we show you the most outrageous hacks that aren’t worth your time. They come in three…Read more...

Last weekend, some 250 passengers on a United flight headed to Hong Kong from Newark, New Jersey lived every traveler’s worst nightmare: After making an unplanned stop at a Canadian airport for a medical emergency, passengers were left stranded on a tarmac for nearly 14 hours.

More people should eat pasta for breakfast. The combination of carbs, fat, and (sometimes) protein welcomes one into the world in a most comforting way, and often there is cheese. It also tends to reheat well, which means you can make a big batch and eat from it throughout the week. There is no downside.Read more...

On March 22, 1972, in an 84–8 vote, the United States Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment.

Microsoft is expanding its war on fake news to the mobile front. The latest update for its Edge browser app incorporates a news-flagging feature that was previously only available on the desktop version as an optional plug-in.

Wouldn’t it be great to wake up and not dread the day? To not wish you were still asleep, but to look forward to the day ahead and know it will be great? It’s possible, with a little planning. Here’s how to have the perfect morning.Read more...

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received for getting my then-preschooler out the door in the morning was to create a visual checklist to guide him. I made a clip-art timeline with a toothbrush (brush your teeth), a sweater (get dressed), a bowl of cereal (eat breakfast) and a newspaper (fetch the newspaper…Read more...

Blackmagic isn’t a household name like Canon or Sony, but it’s well-established within the film community. It’s long had a reputation for making cinema cameras built to compete with cameras that cost tens of thousands of dollars at a far more approachable price-point. Its latest, the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, comes…Read more...