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Over the past year, all (well, at least most) of us have gotten a little more skeptical about what we read in the news, especially on social media.

Tools at Amazon, discounted Target gift cards, and Travelpro lugggage are some of the hottest deals on the web today.Read more...

If you haven’t crossed all of the handy people in your life off your holiday shopping list, Amazon’s kicking off its 12 Days of Deals event with this one-day sale is full of affordable gift ideas (and a worthwhile splurge or two).

Fans of Breaking Bad might consider tankless water heaters to be ostentatious displays of wealth, but they’re actually more affordable than you might think, especially in today’s Amazon Gold Box.

Instagram is one of those platforms, like Twitter, that I’ve always considered the content I post to be visible to the masses. Yes, I know both have a “private” option for accounts, but I’ve always thought the value in both was in interacting with people outside your circle.

Smart locks can be great when you need to give someone temporary access to your home and don’t want to hand over a copyable key, or you just want to be able to use your smartphone for access to your pad rather than digging through your purse or bag for your keys.

It’s that special time of year. You know, the precious month and a half where you can have Santa Claus “guide your sleigh” with driving directions.

Attractive, environmentally conscious chargers, fancy Xbox Controllers and Anki Overdrive kits lead off this Saturday’s best deals.

Founded this year by former Mophie executives, Nimble makes phone chargers built from recycled aluminum and plant based plastics, shipped in scrap paper recycled boxes, and paired with the company’s promise to recycle a pound of e-waste for every product sold. Plus, they have great specs and look really cool.

It’s well-worn advice at this point that one of the highest-impact ways to eat more healthily, and also spend less money, is to get it together and prepare your own food. Which is fine, because it’s true!Read more...

Not to get too morbid, but we’re all going to die. Some of us sooner than expected, as this piece by Emily Maloney in The Billfold reminds us.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, and in their wake, thousands of new Instant Pot pressure cookers are now out in the world. While they come with all the basics you need in the box, we’ve rounded up some additional accessories that can greatly improve your pressure cooking experience.

Does it bug you that we’re living in a world where even the lettuce threatens our health? I have a solution. Toss out the romaine; dump the iceberg while you’re at it, too. Lettuce is bullshit. Lettuce has always been bullshit. Here’s why:

Hedy Lamarr is became a household name as a star in the golden age of Hollywood, but behind the scenes, she was also one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.Read more...

Admitting you need help can be really hard, especially when you’re being paid for your competency. But the reality is, we all need help sometimes, and learning to ask for it at work will make things better for everyone.Read more...

If you’re one of the daring few souls who are confident enough to give yourself or your loved ones a haircut, Wahl’s popular (as in, 12,000+ reviews popular) Color Pro hair cutting kit has a 20% coupon today, which brings it down to just $23. You probably spent more on your last haircut.

Marriott International announced Friday that personal information for up to 500 million of its guests may have been accessed as part of a breach to its Starwood guest reservation database. If you’ve stayed at a Marriott hotel in the past few years, this probably means you.

Hello all you thought criminals of the Internet, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help you speedrun to the Good Ending of your love life.

If you’ve had a poor experience with something—say a restaurant, book or salon visit—take a minute before leaving a negative review. Is it worth it?

Winter is no longer coming, it’s here, but for some reason we still have to leave the house. If you’re dreading the work it will take to make your car drivable, here’s a relatively easy snow-clearing method.Read more...

For parents of kids with birthdays close to the cut-off date for kindergarten registration, the debate can start almost as soon as they’re born: Should we red-shirt him? Will she be ready for kindergarten that soon?Read more...

If you’re hooked on smooth, caffeine-rich cold brew coffee, you can save a lot of money by making it at home, and KitchenAid’s brewer is the nicest looking option we’ve seen.

Nintendo’s fun Labo Variety Kit, a reader-exclusive discount on Samsung’s best TV, and Kano Harry Potter Coding Kit lead off Friday’s best deals.Read more...

One of time’s tested and true hacks is that to get better at anything, you need to start small. Whether your goal is to save $10,000 or run a 5k, starting in small increments is the only way to attain it. Going from $0 in savings to $1,000 by cutting out everything you normally do each month isn’t sustainable;…Read more...

Instagram is making it easier for people with visual impairments to experience its site.

Even at full price, Aerobie’s AeroPress coffee maker is easily the cheapest and easiest way to make terrific coffee, and you can grab a very rare discount on yours today. It was on sale for $24 on Black Friday, but today’s deal is actually slightly cheaper.

Deadspin Kevin Durant Is Absurd | The Grapevine CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill After Israel Comments | The A.V. Club Scott Pilgrim is more zero than superhero, but his movie is still a zippy comic-to-screen delight | Jezebel Of Course Thrillist Knew About The Burger Guy’s Domestic Violence Conviction | Splinter And Now a…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 will discuss a potential fire sale on General Motors’ canceled cars, inspecting cars for friends, and buying out leases.

MacStories blogger Frederico Vitticci has created an incredibly robust iOS shortcut called Home Screen Icon Creator, which allows you to create custom buttons that look different and, if you want to get fancy, to fine-tune what happens when you open an app. It also lets you create customizable icons for iOS shortcuts…Read more...

Have you been enjoying our full month of focusing on your bench press? We learned how to get started, how to bench without a spotter, how to bench without a bench, and some fun variations. Hopefully you learned something new!

After a year or two of increasingly frivolous spending, one of my goals going into the New Year is to save as much money as possible. In some areas of my life, like eating out or buying clothes, it’s obvious what I need to cut, and there are plenty of easy ways to save money.

Today I learned that Twitter thinks I’m interested in literature, beer, hip-hop, and I really like my friends Ina and Harry (I’m double interested in both of them for some reason). When it comes to me, Twitter thinks I’m known for being a technology journalist, as well as “other.” I’ve never been so proud!

Earlier this week, Google announced that its cellular service provider division “Project Fi” has graduated from beta “project” to full-fledged product Google Fi. The name change is fine, but what’s really interesting and exciting about the whole thing is that, as part of the shift, Google Fi now officially supports…Read more...

Some romaine lettuce is safe to eat again. The FDA and CDC announced on November 28 that they have narrowed down the recent E. coli outbreak to lettuce grown in fields (not greenhouses) in California. That means that lettuce from Florida or from most local farmstands is probably safe to eat. But romaine’s problems…Read more...

Every time you have a bad headache or pain in your chest, you might rush straight to WebMD and furiously research, caught in the grip of a full-on panic.Read more...

Moving never goes exactly as planned, no matter how prepared you think you might be. Movers arrive late, you run out of packing tape—or, like me, you drop and break your laptop because you didn’t realize it was sitting under a stack of clothes you’re hurriedly throwing in a box. Inevitably, you’ll forget something.

It’s hard to keep all your balls in the air, but a little multi-tasking can help—until you drop them all over the floor because you also tried to answer a text or something. There are times when doing two things at once will make you less effective than focusing on one task. Here’s how to tell when that’s happened.Read more...

Picking out big, pricey gifts is easy. Finding inexpensive, smaller stuff for stockings, office gift exchanges, and third cousins twice removed is where gift-buying season gets tricky. That’s why we compiled this list of 150 Inventory-recommended (and actually useful) stocking stuffer ideas, all for $20 or less.*Read more...

Whether your signature issue is decent working conditions and a living wage for workers; the company’s systematic scamming of American cities in its “search” for HQ2; or the simple fact that no one human (let alone one as notably greedy as Jeff Bezos) should be in possession of $163 billion dollars—it seems that…Read more...

You’ll never make everybody happy—and the people that aren’t happy are liable to tell you why. Criticism is part of the price of being human. But even though we know that, it’s hard to deal when the negative stuff starts rolling in. Share an opinion on the internet—or just report some inconvenient facts (ask me how I…Read more...

A tired and overwhelmed (new) parent recently asked me for help: Rather than searching through all of Offspring’s content to find the hacks he needed most—newborn, newborn and more newborn—could I do it for him?Read more...

A few weeks ago I was in Paris and visited the Louvre. Over the course of four hours, a guy named Jeremy, who has a masters in art history from some fancy university, took a small group of us around to see some of the museum’s highlights. What I didn’t realize was that if we had moved our trip just a few weeks later,…Read more...

What are you doing tonight? If you’re in the New York City area, do we have an option for you: Come join us for the first-ever live recording of The Upgrade! We’ll be joined by comedians Chris Gethard and Akilah Hughes, as well as hosts of Gimlet’s The Nod, Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings. Our topic for the night is,…Read more...

MoviePass rival Sinemia recently came under fire for charging a $1.80 “processing fee” when its customers purchased movie tickets in advance (it already charged another fee for advance sales). Today it’s offering a new option to “avoid all fees” with the reintroduction of physical debit cards. With the new cards, you…Read more...

A reader-exclusive Samsung TV, refurbished iPads and a terrific coffee maker lead off Thursday’s best deals.

The A.V. Club Stephen Colbert to sue Donald Trump for stealing his bit, proving we’re in hell | Deadspin The Next USMNT Coach Will Be Gregg Berhalter, Apparently | Splinter Meghan McCain’s Rant About Climate Change Is Perfect, Loud Nonsense | Jezebel Queer Eye’s…Read more...

As with traveling, tipping around the holidays can breed confusion and stress. You know you’re supposed to tip, but how much, exactly, and to whom? Will your kid’s teacher be offended if you slip him a crisp $20? How much is your hair dresser expecting? And do you owe anything to the super who has repeatedly ignored…Read more...

I’ll just say this upfront: This is a 75" TV that costs $3,500. We post deals on affordable TVs all the time, and this definitely is not one of them. And yet, it’s an amazing deal if you’ve got the money to burn.

The iPad Mini 4 hasn’t been updated in several years, but if you like the size, you can save a ton with today’s refurb deals on Amazon. Get the 128GB model for $250 ($150 less than buying it new), or the 64GB model for $20 less.

Deadspin Here’s A Really Bizarre Stat About The Steelers | Jezebel The Making of a Sympathetic Man | Splinter Meghan McCain’s Rant About Climate Change Is Perfect, Loud Nonsense | The Root Black Man Graciously Helps Intoxicated Neighbor, Gets Arrested for Some Silly Shit | The A.V. Club Sylvester Stallone sure sounds…Read more...