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On Tuesday, October 9, Google will be holding its annual Hardware event in New York City. These events are where we hear about all the big new announcements for devices and services that the tech giant is prepping.

Meeple Lady is a board game blogger, rulebook editor and podcaster. She shares with us her favorite board games for kids—ones that grownups would enjoy playing, too.

If you are well acquainted with someone by the name of “Two Buck Chuck”, you probably think any wine over $10 is a scam.Read more...

My wife and I have about the same number of Twitter followers—16k and 14k respectively—but her tweets consistently outperform mine. In fact, according to the SparkScore tool from the Twitter marketing service SparkToro, an average tweet from her gets three times as many retweets and ten times as many faves.

Don’t you hate it when every piece of tech you own doubles as a night light? Even if you make an effort to avoid using your phone and laptop in bed, the various gadgets in your room may still be impeding your ability to sleep with their stupidly bright status lights.

As with anything, learning to make excellent cocktails takes some practice, and even professionals screw up every once in a while. To prevent wasting costly booze, bartender and all-around ethanol expert Jim Meehan builds his drinks starting with the cheapest ingredients.Read more...

What’s it like to be a Muslim today? It’s a question that Wajahat Ali—a New York Times contributing op-ed writer, Emmy-nominated producer and one of CNN’s 25 Most Influential Muslims—is always thinking about. In his work, he has mused on everything from how Ramadan has become mainstream to the first time he heard his…Read more...

There are way too many camera apps for iOS and Android. And if you’re anything like my friends, you just stick with the basics: the stock app your smartphone shipped with. Good enough for silly selfies, shots of your pet being lazy, and Instagrams of your food, right?Read more...

I can’t say I recommend this, exactly, but it is a thing people do.Read more...

Just in time for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Duolingo is launching two courses for endangered indigenous languages, both created by native speakers. Starting today, you can use the app to learn the languages spoken by native Hawaiians and by the Diné, better known as the Navajo nation.

If you don’t have access to insurance through your employer, parent or spouse, it’s almost time to pick a plan for the coming year. Open enrollment for the individual health insurance market begins November 1 and lasts through December 15, 2018.Read more...

Learning how to last longer in bed is one of the most common reasons why men seek out my sex therapy services. Just about every man worries about orgasming too quickly, regardless of the actual amount of time he tends to last. Fortunately, there are a few straightforward, actionable strategies for lasting longer…Read more...

Detroit is not particularly a tourist destination. But neither are some of our most successful Hack Your City choices, like Pittsburgh or Minneapolis-St. Paul. This is a Hack Your City for the locals, and for anyone else who’s found themselves in this city on a business trip or layover. It’s not exactly glory days for…Read more...

We’re a Schitt’s Creek family here at Lifehacker, so the arrival of season 4 on Thursday makes for very good news. If you’ve been resistant to this delightful show because the title is so terrible, I urge you to work through your understandable issues and just dive in. The ongoing saga of the once-wealthy Rose family,…Read more...

Running has always been one of those things that I needed some sort of motivation for. Go out on a Saturday run for my health? I’ll pass. Go out on a Saturday run so I can crush all my friends in a FitBit challenge? Now we’re talking.

I saw it for the first time late last week: an acquaintance from college posted something about how she had received a message about a friend receiving a friend request from her from a bogus account that the friend in question supposedly ignored, but she should “check her account.” It also recommends forwarding the…Read more...

Google is expected to announce its next generation of phones, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, this week at an event in New York.

Philips Hue discounts, matcha green tea, and Amazon’s Sunday ebook sale lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

Memorizing things, especially long things like speeches and presentations, can be pretty difficult to do. Like all things, practice makes perfect. However, unless you have a pal around to help you with all that practice it’s easy for you to slip up while you’re practicing and miss parts, or not get the whole…Read more...

The holidays can be a stressful time, especially if you need to travel. My yearly trip back home is always a delicate balance of figuring out when I can reasonably leave SF but also still afford that plane ticket. Prices from San Francisco to North Carolina can range from just a few hundred dollars to well into the…Read more...

Unlike iOS where everyone receives an operating system update at the same time, Android updates are a bit… scattered. Google devices always get the update first, but devices from other manufacturers can take weeks or months to receive an update if they do at all.

The best $17 shower head in the world, discounted 4K TVs, and a Dremel designed specifically for carving pumpkins lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

Google’s October 9 hardware event is approaching quickly, and over the past few weeks, rumors about what new devices Google will be announcing have been at a fever pitch. While we have a pretty good idea of what announcements to expect, the most obvious are the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones.

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If you froze your credit at Experian after Equifax’s infamous 2017 data breach, take heed: According to a report from NerdWallet, the credit bureau’s system for verifying PINs to unfreeze credit had a major security flaw, leaving people vulnerable to scammers.

We’re all used to skimming past the boring parts of a reading assignment or a web article. But when researchers from RMIT University in Australia printed information in a weird, hard-to-read font, they found that people were more likely to remember what they read.

Networking can be a little confusing, especially when something you’ve done (or not done) doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever. You set up a new cable modem and wireless router, and have worse speeds than you did than when you used your older gear. You wire your house with gigabit Ethernet, only to watch your…Read more...

We are scratching our collective heads as to how the Windows 10 October Update ever made it past Microsoft’s QA teams. According to numerous reports, something about the update could delete the contents of your Windows 10 user folders—you know, your documents, photos, music, videos, et cetera.

Have people told you that you’re intimidating and you just don’t know why? You may be giving off signals that say “don’t mess with me” without realizing it.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 making our first ever reader-suggested cocktail, and it’s a good one.Read more...

In a recent blog post titled “Hardening macOS,” Ricard Bejarano offers an extensive list of settings you can tweak to make macOS as secure as possible. It’s a comprehensive list of tasks—and we love it—but it’s important that you understand the “why” behind his recommendations, too. Here are a few of his top tips and…Read more...

Your babysitter just arrived and you have seven minutes before you must head out to catch your show/make it to your meeting/watch your buddy walk down the aisle. You try to remember everything they might need to know for the next several hours of caring for your offspring, but you’re blanking, and your little one…Read more...

Move over, Pluto: There’s a new dwarf planet in our solar system, and its name is the Goblin.Read more...

When I’m in another city and I want to see what neighborhoods to wander, I crack open Foursquare. Some people use Yelp, some look for the brown tinted areas on Google Maps. My friend Henry uses Pokémon Go.

Setting the table for your dinner party may seem like the job you give to eager guests who insist on helping, but it should be done with care and precision. Sure, you could drop a cup full of plastic forks on the table, but is that really living?Read more...

It’s not technically a Clear the Rack sale, but it might as well be. Nordstrom Rack just added a ton of new sale styles to their clearance section for Columbus Day weekend, with basically all of your favorite brands represented. Nearly 20,000 items are available right now, but that’s sure to shrink as the good stuff…Read more...

Due to the popularity of a certain sock puppet in the 80s, lamb chops seem to be the cut of young sheep that gets the most play. Lamb steaks, however, are definitely worth your time and, when cooked sous-vide, pretty much impossible to mess up.Read more...

We’re deadlifting this month, and I’d love to hear how it’s going for everyone so far. (I did one workout already, and will try to get in two next week.) But if you’re new to this, or if you find the move intimidating, we have some suggestions for how to prepare.

When I was a kid, birthday cakes had simple adornments: some frosting, candles and maybe the guest of honor’s name handwritten in red food dye No. 3. But times have changed. Nowadays, it seems that no child’s party is complete without a sugar-filled masterpiece in the form of a shimmery unicorn head or a Lightning…Read more...

Microsoft’s big October update for Windows 10 is here. If Microsoft hasn’t rolled it out to your Windows machine yet, you can force a manual update by simply clicking on your Start button, typing in the word “check,” and selecting the “check for updates” option. Click on the gray “Check for updates” box under Windows…Read more...

Thanksgiving Planning Season is officially upon is, and when you’re coordinating a huge meal, every little bit of advance prep counts. I wouldn’t start brining that turkey just yet, but it’s never too early to stock your freezer with pie dough.Read more...

The midterm elections are only a few weeks off, and if ever there’s a time to participate in the electoral process, it’s now. But as of November 2016, only 70 percent of U.S. citizens over age 18 were registered to vote, which means that more than 65 million people who are eligible to register have not done so.

We’ve told you how to actually hit someone. But here’s how to pretend to hit someone. First, a tip from The Good Fight actress and Broadway treasure Christine Baranski on the loose hand and the follow-through.

If you’re in the market for a new dining rewards card, American Express’s updated Premier Rewards Gold Card is one of the more generous on the market—so long as you spend enough to work around the $250 fee.

Around 500 pieces of legislation related to voting have been implemented by state legislatures since the 2016 presidential election, ProPublica reports. And in some states, understanding the changes could be the difference between getting to vote and being turned away at the polls.

Breast cancer is common and can be devastating, but it gets a lot more media attention than many other cancers. Here are a few causes that could use a little love while you’ve got your wallet out to buy some pink gewgaws.

Early morning runs can be rough, but to get through them it helps to have a little teamwork, camaraderie, and gleeful singing about death. Fortunately, military running cadences are available on all your favorite streaming services.Read more...

Moms and dads of teenagers: Does your kid seem extra enthusiastic about addition and multiplication these days? I’m sorry to break it to you, but the calculator app he’s been grinning at all evening may not be the trusty math device that it seems. It could be a digital safe, hiding photos he doesn’t want you to see.…Read more...

At this point, most of us have an “unlimited” data plan on our mobile phone that makes it so, for the most part, it doesn’t really matter how much data the apps on our phone are using. You don’t want an app that’s constantly using massive amounts of data (most of those “unlimited” plans can end in throttled speeds),…Read more...

We’re just barely into October, so now’s a good time to start freaking the freak out about Thanksgiving. (If you’re Canadian, I know it’s much sooner, and I’m sorry, I can’t help you.) Taking full advantage of everyone’s Turkey Day anxiety, HelloFresh has launched their first Thanksgiving Box.Read more...