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I’m not going to ask why you need a keylogger. Just know that installing one on someone else’s system is a great way to get yourself dumped, fired, or prosecuted, depending on your situation. It’s also a great way to really put someone in a world of hurt, should the little utility you’ve downloaded capture keystrokes…Read more...

Deadspin Public Service Announcement: Do Not Tug On Steph Curry’s Brother’s Shorts For Any Reason | The Root Black Voters in Georgia Say Something Funny Is Going on With Their Voting Machines | Jezebel Megyn Kelly Today Might Not See Another Day | The A.V. Club There’s gold in the hills of Red Dead Redemption 2 | …Read more...

Next time you find yourself scrolling through your streaming queue and thinking that there’s nothing worth watching, try the Library of Congress’s National Screening Room.

North Bayou seemingly came out of nowhere this year to offer a bunch of highly rated monitor and TV mounts at absurdly low prices, and today, they have their first ever Amazon Gold Box sale.

I wish I had an enemy in St. Louis, MO, so I could call them my arch nemesis. Hahaha the city has an arch. OK, that’s enough fun. It’s time for the best St. Louis tips from Lifehacker readers. And we have a trolley-load.

The surprising combo of candy corn and peanuts took our sugar-addled brains to some strange places. What further Halloween candy mashups could we conceive of that would ultimately be greater than the sum of their parts? We spent an afternoon putting our tongues and stomachs to the test to help readers make the most of…Read more...

Splinter Is This Our Idiot President’s Most Pathetic Response To a Very Bad News Event Yet? | Deadspin Skateboarder Says Former Pro, USA Skateboarding Executive Abused Her With “Sex Lessons” When She Was 14 | The Root Video: Librarian Calls Cops on Student for Brazen Attempt at #StudyingWhileBlack [Updated] | The A.V.…Read more...

Last week, Radionomy CEO Alexandre Saboundjian revealed that the company plans to overhaul Winamp, the classic music player best known as a Windows-first alternative to iTunes, to make it more vital for our more streaming-focused audio media world. That version is coming in 2019.

A third of today’s teenagers don’t read books for pleasure, reports a survey from the American Psychological Association. That’s nearly triple the number reported in the 1970s. And yet teens are reading—perhaps more than ever before. Glued to screens, they’re voraciously consuming words in the form of texts, photo…Read more...

If you’re one of the millions of people who didn’t win last night’s $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot, don’t feel bad about the $2 you spent on the ticket. Because a lot of good comes from playing the lottery.

The party may be over, but the flowers on every table still look fresh. Instead of throwing them in the trash or sending them home with tipsy family members, donate the whole bunch to a group of people who could use some cheering up.Read more...

The first time I stepped inside my studio apartment in New York City, I knew it was perfect. It had three closets (big find for NYC). It had an alcove, so the bed wasn’t, like, in the sink. And it was only up one flight of stairs. Overall, a huge real estate win. But you know what would have made it even more perfect?…Read more...

Apple cider vinegar doesn’t shine your hair or rev your metabolism. Yoga is good exercise but not a miracle cure. Homeopathy is useless. On the other hand, light therapy can help seasonal depression. Alternative medicine is kind of a grab bag, and it can be tough to remember what’s what.Read more...

Google, one of the biggest stashers of our personal data, just updated Google Search—Aka Google-dot-com—to make it easier for you to review and edit what search data the company stores. The Google Search page now features a link below the search bar that will take you directly to a new data privacy hub that let’s you…Read more...

Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic drawing exercises at Envato. They address issues like “I can’t draw a circle” or “my proportions are all off.”

In my book, no food is truly ugly. The difference between gorgeous, magazine-spread ready food photography and Martha Stewart’s forays into the genre is a food stylist and professional lighting. Still, even I have to admit that some dishes are natural lookers.Read more...

November is a solid month for Netflix. You’ve got the new She-Ra, a new season of MST3K, a previously unfinished Orson Welles film, and classics like The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And the site is only losing a few hit films. Here’s everything coming and going from…Read more...

The Fair Isaac Co. (FICO) is promising that its new UltraFICO score, debuting in 2019, will be a boon to some consumers without a long credit history. While that may be true, others should be wary of opting in to the new scoring model.

Making paper airplanes isn’t just a great low-tech boredom killer—it’s highly educational, too. Yep, all that time you spent folding spiral notebook paper into cool gliders in 11th grade economics, you were actually getting a lesson in design engineering. Neat, huh?

A lot of games require a big time investment—at least, if you want to have the best gear, the funniest emotes, the most locations unlocked, a shot at completing all the achievements, etc. And while you could play fair and square, you could also be that person and use hacks, exploits, or other creative techniques to…Read more...

The Root Brian Kemp Caught on Tape Warning His Donors About Black People Voting ... Again | Deadspin Alex Cora Can Do No Wrong | Jezebel Jada Pinkett Smith Says She Cried Walking Down the Aisle at Her Wedding: ‘I Was So Pissed’ | Splinter Megyn Kelly’s Own Show Absolutely Destroys Her Over Racist Blackface Comments | …Read more...

A few years ago when I cracked my iPhone 5 screen for the 20th time, I ordered a repair kit from iFixit and repaired it myself. Replacing the display was surprisingly easy, and doing it myself was considerably cheaper than getting Apple or someone else to do it. So easy I started offering to do it for my friends if…Read more...

In a world of increasingly complex tech, wireless chargers are refreshingly simple devices. Just take your phone, drop it on a pad or stand, and walk away. That’s it. And now that wireless charging is basically a standard feature for most flagship handsets, it’s quickly becoming the preferred way to keep your phone’s…Read more...

If you’ve ever listened to a podcast, you’ve heard of Mailchimp. (“Mail...kimp?”) We talked to Ben Chestnut, CEO and co-founder of the email newsletter company and marketing platform that grew to half a billion dollars in revenue without ever taking any venture capital. Ben reveals the email habit that ran his early…Read more...

Splinter Barack Obama Still Doesn’t Get It | Adequate Man The 19 Boringest Athletes Of All Time | The A.V. Club Bohemian Rhapsody sings when it digs into Queen’s eccentric creative process | Jezebel NJ Mom’s 911 Call About Racist Man Prevents School Shooting in Kentucky | The Root The Wildly Unregulated Practice of…Read more...

Picture-in-picture (PIP) video playback is a user-favorite feature on Android’s Chrome app, and you can now get it on your Chrome desktop browser—as long as you’ve updated to Chrome 70, that is.Read more...

Earlier this week, a Tesla owner in Essex, Great Britain, posted security camera footage of his Model S getting stolen by a pair of thieves who were able to unlock and start the car with a smartphone and a tablet. By hijacking the owner’s key fob, they were able to get in, turn on the car, disable remote tracking, and…Read more...

It’s about that time of year when most people start thinking about shopping for winter tires in preparation for the cold and snowy months. We’ve written about the importance of winter tires before, but here’s how you can decide what size tire to buy.Read more...

Everyone is thinking about costumes with Halloween right around the corner, but for some people, dressing up as someone else is a very serious business. For spies, it’s a matter of life and death, and they need to get it exactly right.

Like helping others? JetBlue would like to take you on a mystery vacation to an undisclosed location where you can do some good.

What’s so special about superfoods, anyway? Even as the term fades slightly from marketing copy, we all still pay attention to specific foods that we’ve heard are better for us than the rest. Red wine. Goji berries. Kale.

Not all of us are lucky enough to have unlimited data plans, which can lead to a lot of anxiety around rationing a monthly allotment to web browsing, video streaming, and other mobile activities. Going over a data limit costs a small fortune, and it can be hard to keep track of where all that data went.Read more...

In our never-ending quest to be less distracted by the technological tools and toys we surround ourselves with, cracking down on phone usage is one of the most important.

You’re likely familiar with money laundering as a concept from your favorite TV show or the news. Whether it’s Walter White legitimizing meth money via a carwash or Al Capone using literal laundromats to clean his cash (that’s where the term reportedly originated, in fact), it’s the stuff of pop culture and criminal…Read more...

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We all want to be memorable or, if not memorable, at least not completely forgettable. This is why, when directed at someone you’ve already met, a simple, cheery “Nice to meet you!” or “Hi, I’m Claire!”(use your own name) can be devastating (or at least kind of a bummer).Read more...

Your kid might be too young to be seriously considering a career in STEM, but that doesn’t mean they’re too young to cultivate an interest. If you’re raising a girl, new research suggests that one of the easiest ways to do that is to simply let her be a kid—and play video games.Read more...

When you’re expecting a child, you can snag a lot of free stuff from companies that want to make your baby an [insert brand name here] baby. Diapers, wipes, formula, bottles, onesies, and even children’s books. Hey, go with it.

When I’m trying to do work, every little thing distracts me. Google autocomplete; my inbox; even the page that Chrome loads when I open a new tab. Well, the helpful page Chrome used to load. Because for the last few years, I’ve run the Chrome extension Blank New Tab Page. When I open a new tab or window in Chrome, I…Read more...

Klipsch speakers, Amazon-branded furniture, and Casper’s most affordable mattresses lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

The file-storing service Mega usually cuts free users off once they’ve downloaded around 5GB or so, forcing you to wait hours before you can resume whatever it is you were transferring. It feels like Mega is more generous nowadays (I downloaded 18.75GB of data the other day before I hit the wall), but it still has some…Read more...

Unless you are buying a beater car off Craigslist with cash, your FICO credit score is a key determining factor as to whether you get approved for a car loan and how much interest you will pay. Now a new score, UltraFICO, is coming, and that could help a lot of people get approved at better rates.

In honor of Evil Week, I’m here to teach you how to give a lazy blowjob. First, some caveats: Penises are awesome, blowjobs are fun, and it’s important to be as generous and giving with your partner as you would like them to be with you. But sometimes it’s late, you’re tired, and you just want to get your partner off…Read more...

People with complex medical conditions end up having a lot of contact with our health care system: surgeries, doctors’ visits, specialists and therapies and imaging tests and more. And that makes them experts, in a sense, on how to get the most out of your visits.Read more...

Apple does not typically do budget devices, but as they go, the iPhone XR comes pretty close. While hardly cheap (a budget phone should be under $400, not $750!), it represents a calculated attempt at creating a more affordable device that isn’t a tremendous compromise. Something powerful enough that you can enjoy the…Read more...

Breaking up is hard to do, especially when there are numerous public profiles where we can check in on everything our ex does. Looking at how the person you dated is filling all their days without you is a bad idea, but so hard to resist. Here’s how you can.Read more...

If you’re traveling around Christmas and haven’t booked your flight yet, you still have a few weeks to snag the best deal, according to travel app Hopper.

Coding school App Academy has opened a free online interactive version of its 12-week curriculum. That’s a pretty good deal, since the Academy’s in-person classes in San Francisco and New York can cost as much as a semester in college. The online version involves less direct human interaction, but it includes online…Read more...

For most, buying a new smartphone is easy—you just get the latest version of whatever it is you’ve been using. If you’re dissatisfied enough, or you don’t want the latest Galaxy, Pixel, or iPhone (to name a few), then it’s time to go shopping, and you’ll have a sea of smartphones to wade through in order to find the…Read more...

If you dream of becoming a writer, you have to eventually sit down and write. Whether you’re doing National Novel Writing Month in November, or you dream of being a writer “someday,” the first inescapable step is making the time to do it. Here’s a 15-minute exercise toward that end that you can do today.Read more...