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I’m a huge fan of night or dark mode and have written a ton about different apps and extensions you can use to darken up your screen. Any dark mode enthusiast will tell you about how using your device with a dark background rather than a white one will save your eyes as well as your device’s battery power. This week…Read more...

As wildfires continue to devastate parts of California, checking on friends and family in the area is often a difficult proposition. Thousands have had to evacuate their homes, and many of those evacuees are in situations where they might have limited access to the internet or power for their phones to let people know…Read more...

In addition to the obvious fire danger, all three fires are creating a substantial amount of smoke that can pose a health and safety risk to those who live nearby, even when that “nearby” in a few hundred miles from where the fire is burning. In San Francisco, for instance, the smoke smell is overwhelming at points…Read more...

Hotel safes can be great for keeping things like your passport safe when you travel. They can also be great for helping you accidentally leave things like your passport and valuables in a hotel room.

We all know a to-do list can help keep you on task. A to-don’t list can sometimes be just as helpful. The idea behind creating one is exactly what it sounds like: create a list of all the things you shouldn’t do that day.Read more...

Walmart-exclusive routers, men’s and women’s Uniqlo jackets, and a biometric safe lead off Saturday best deals from around the web.

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A traveler’s problem booking a plane ticket through Chase’s online portal shows why you should always double-check your travel bookings for mistakes as soon as you make them.Read more...

You can get some pretty good apples right now, but sometimes even the most beautiful, promising looking crisp fall fruits can be a little too tart or a little too bland. This is, without a doubt, very disappointing, but don’t let it ruin your day. All your ho-hum apple needs is a sprinkling of salt.Read more...

Florida overwhelmingly voted to ban greyhound racing, which means that by the end of 2020, thousands of dogs could be out of jobs. The good news is that you can adopt greyhounds at any time. They are very good dogs.Read more...

Happy weekend, everyone, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re getting sauced with one of my favorite holiday flavors—cranberry.Read more...

I began to plow through chapter books almost as soon as I could read, and I distinctly remember a handful of “a-ha” moments while submerged in these novels. These moments occurred as I read about experiences I’d never had and people I never knew (I grew up in a pretty homogenous bubble—lots of white, Christian…Read more...

“I know gym mats are cheaper if you search for ‘horse stall mats’ instead,” says redditor MMAJakob on r/Frugal. “Weddings are cheaper if you call it a birthday party too. What are some other things that get cheaper when you call it something else?” Here are some of the best answers from the thread.

It feels deeply satisfying to hunt down a really good deal and see the huge savings you’ve gotten by standing on line for hours or clicking “buy” at just the right moment. Unfortunately, businesses know this—and they’re manipulating you.Read more...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is not for kids.Read more...

Facebook’s new video-chatting device, the Portal, goes on sale today. Throw caution to the wind by picking one up, and it taps into your Facebook account to let you make hands-free video calls, display photos, play music, stream video content, and more.

Lifting weights is often about the challenge: can I really lift this much? Or, I already lifted this for eight reps, but can I do a ninth? So you need to prepare for what happens if you fail.

I always wanted to be a writer, at least as soon as I stopped wanting to be a private detective. But from the day I landed my first writing job, I was already planning on how to get some other, better job. For years I kept daydreaming about the ever-changing dream job (usually some form of screenwriting because I’m…Read more...

Tonight the Northern Lights are making one of their uncommon appearances in the continental United States (we’re jealous, Alaska, okay?) so if you’re in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Washington, or the tippy-top of Michigan or Maine, you might get a rare chance to see them.Read more...

Some people love giving holiday presents: To them it’s an art, something to be mastered, a fun way to spend an afternoon or two. Others dread the annual giving of gifts, wishing family members would just say what they’d actually like instead of relying on their nearest and dearest to waffle back and forth between the…Read more...

Our ability to access reproductive health care shouldn’t be a political issue, but sadly it often hinges on politicians’ actions. The recent midterms have some pluses and minuses.Read more...

How many people out there are still using AOL Mail? I assumed it was all of three people, but apparently there’s still a considerable number of you clinging to your aol.com accounts. Do you hope AOL will make a grand resurgence one day? Are you nostalgic for the sounds of a dial-up modem? Do you hate Gmail? You can…Read more...

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Back in 2009, the Free Music Archive was founded as a place where artists could share their music, and listeners could download songs legally. Now, it’s shutting down—so now’s the time to download any tunes off the service you’d like to have in your own personal library.

We’ve all heard that people don’t really change. Your mom will always be close-minded; your ex will always be selfish; and you’ll always be a tiny bit neurotic.

Flickr isn’t going away, but a lot of your photos will be if you don’t follow its new limitations: 1,000 photos, period. These photos can be any size you want, but you only get a thousand of them. The era of the free terabyte of Flickr storage is coming to an end.

When my son was 2, I quit my full-time job to stay home with him. It didn’t take me long to figure out that I needed easy, creative ways to keep him occupied—but on one income.Read more...

Amazon wants to fill the Toys R’ Us-shaped hole in our hearts with an old fashioned print holiday catalog, much like the recently closed toy store’s “Big Book of Toys.” Amazon’s catalog, which The Verge said will be called “A Holiday of Play,” hopes to reimagine the Black Friday gift guide by adding QR codes next to…Read more...

For those with money to spare, the SEP IRA contribution limit is increasing by $1,000 in 2019, from $55,000 to $56,000.

If you showed up at a polling place on election day and were told you couldn’t vote—perhaps records showed that you were not registered—we hope you remembered to ask to cast a provisional ballot. Provisional ballots are only counted if it turns out that you are eligible to vote, so you should make sure to check up on…Read more...

Thanksgiving is an onslaught of creamy, buttery starches and root vegetables and, though I wouldn’t have it any other way, it’s nice—heroic even—to provide some sort of fresh respite in the form of a salad.Read more...

I’ve spent the last three months shuffling between doctor visits instead of writing for Jalopnik because I crashed a Maverick X3 at my wedding and pulverized my left hand. But that’s a story for another time. For now, how about you help me get back on the road?

I am, as you have probably noticed, always concerned about the Thanksgiving plight of the vegetarian, and this concern extends to my vegetarian coworkers. For our little staff Thanksgiving, our (vegetarian) video producer, Adam Powers wanted to bring a meat-free dish, and I wanted to make sure it was as fun and…Read more...

Zealous cleaners, beware: there is an area in your kitchen where filth has accumulated, and you can’t even see it.Read more...

Wireless earbuds, a Clear the Rack sale, and an inversion table lead off Thursday’s best deals from around the web.

I’ve never been one to sit and watch TV shows with my son. Sure, I check them out to make sure they’re age-appropriate and have overall messaging I can get behind, but you won’t often find me curling up on the couch with him just for the heck of it. His TV time is my get-stuff-done time.Read more...

A mind flayer just ate you—or your party—and you’re looking to get back into the action with a brand-new Dungeons & Dragons character. That, or you have a fresh new game coming up, and you need a little inspiration for your next character’s background and personality. Instead of spending an hour staring a blank…Read more...

Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to access a drive’s “encrypted” contents without needing the password that decrypts it.

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Despite all the convenience and quality of Google’s sprawling ecosystem, some users are fed up with the fishy privacy policies the company has recently implemented in Gmail, Chrome, and other services. To its credit, Google has made good changes in response to user feedback, but that doesn’t diminish the company’s…Read more...

Travel tip site The Points Guy unveiled its picking for the Best Airports in America today. Topping the list this year was Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport, which has remained #1 on the site’s list since 2016.

“I use the term ‘Swamp Unicorn’ to describe us Miami Natives,” says reader maidus. “We’re magical creatures and are rare to find in a town that’s filled with some of the world’s biggest pricks that decide to come here and live ‘la vida loca’ and give this place a bad rep.” Hoo boy. People got feisty in the comment…Read more...

During Donald Trump’s wild post-midterms press conference on Wednesday, the president named and shamed Republicans who lost, called a black reporter racist, and, most notably, got into it with CNN’s Jim Acosta. On Wednesday night, the White House took what seems to be the unprecedented step of yanking Acosta’s press…Read more...

Everyone loves a good app bundle, and BundleHunt—creators of just that, for your Mac—has launched its brand-new holiday bundle of apps. Get stoked, because you have a grand total of 46 heavily discounted apps to pick from.Read more...

Since they do not consume giant, whole birds, vegetarians are often robbed that special, visually arresting main course the meat-eaters enjoy, because meat-eaters can be selfish, especially on a day that revolves around ceremoniously consuming a living dinosaur, then wishing upon one (and only one) of its broken bones.

Thanks to last night’s vote, Florida will become the 48th state where people who have completed a sentence for felony are eligible to vote. (Kentucky and Iowa are the holdouts.) That means probably over a million people are granted the right to vote all at once—the largest such number since the 19th amendment.Read more...

You know how the exact moment Thanksgiving is over you find yourself wandering the aisles of CVS while “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” blasts over the PA and you’re filled with overwhelming dread, another year come and gone and what have you done with your life? Of course you do. Well, this year is different. This…Read more...

Lately (as I’ve mentioned) my mantra is, “Is this strategic, or just cathartic?” I’m training myself to repeat it when I feel tempted to say something really stupid during a tense discussion or basically any interaction on Twitter. So far, I mostly say it to my friends when they’re about to say something stupid. And…Read more...

Water flossing is an easier (and they would argue more effective) way to “floss” between your teeth, and Amazon is offering the popular Panasonic portable oral irrigator for $28 today, or even less if you use Subscribe & Save (why is this on Subscribe & Save?!). That’s the best price of the year, so your teeth and…Read more...

The legalization of marijuana was on the ballot in four states during the midterm elections: Michigan, North Dakota, Utah, and Missouri. Michigan and North Dakota voted on whether to make marijuana recreationally legal, with Michigan passing the initiative and North Dakota ultimately voting no. Utah and Missouri voted…Read more...