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Why do so many young men make the same vague face in all their selfies?Why do they all raise their eyebrows and tighten their lips like office workers greeting each other on a Tuesday? What are they hiding? What are they feeling? Vox asked a handful of them, and got some excellent self-deprecating answers.…Read more...

Hello, and welcome back to Will It Casserole?, the column where I take your delicious concepts and re-imagine them as tasty casserole creations. Today we’re taking comforting chicken noodle soup, and transforming it into a creamier, more scoop-able version of itself, complete with a saltine topping.Read more...

In a bid to draw in wealthier millennial clients, Chase is offering Sapphire card holders (Reserve or Preferred) who open a bank account 60,000 bonus points, worth up to $900 in travel money reports CNBC.

For a while, I’ve resisted handing over my phone to my 5-year-old to let her watch YouTube Kids—there have been multiple times when I’d set her up with a show I approve of only to peek over 15 minutes later and find her watching something I hate (usually Ryan’s Toy Review). Other parents have had similar complaints…Read more...

We order from Grubhub pretty regularly in my house. But until this week it’s not something I knew could happen using Venmo.

The best apologies come from a place of true self-reflection and understanding. You did something wrong, you get why it was wrong, and you want to make a change for the better. That doesn’t mean the person hearing it is going to accept your conciliatory gesture.Read more...

Splinter The Michael Avenatti-Tucker Carlson Shoutfest Was So Much Worse Than I Could’ve Imagined | Deadspin Why Is The Sunday Night Football Intro Song Always So Fucking Awful? | The A.V. Club How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days set the stage for the rom-com’s downfall | The Root 2 Different Versions of Amber Guyger’s Story…Read more...

The “Golden Master” of iOS 12—which should be the final version releases to the public on Monday, September 17—is now available. If you want to get your hands on the new iPhone and iPad operating system a few days before everybody else— by“everybody else,” I mean “normal people who don’t run public betas of operating…Read more...

Hurricane Florence is hitting the East Coast, whipping through Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. You can track it at several government and news sites, and you can watch it from several webcams. Above (WARNING: very loud wind) is the view from Frying Pan Tower, 34 miles off the coast of Cape Fear, NC,…Read more...

If you’re planning to preorder a new iPhone XS or Apple Watch Series 4, you’re going to have a late night tonight. All three devices—the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and Apple Watch Series 4—will be eligible for preordering at 12:01 PT. That’s California time—because in Apple’s world, all roads lead to Cupertino.Read more...

The success of a meal plan can only be judged by the percentage of it that’s consumed. It may sound obvious, but the execution of a good meal plan requires planning meals you are excited to eat. Picking the right proteins, vegetables, and sides are important, but picking the right condiments—I’m talking sauces,…Read more...

In a power outage, a 9 volt battery can give your phone enough juice to make a call or send a few texts. You may have seen this hack before, but it works especially well in this variation where you use the spring from a pen to connect the negative terminal.Read more...

Every music streaming service kind of sucks, we already know this. One of the ways Spotify sucks is that it limits how many songs you can download on each device. But the service just raised its download limit from 3,333 tracks per device, up to 10,000 per device, for up to five devices. Great news for anyone who…Read more...

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag ... And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person,” debuted in 2011. Here on Offspring, we’ve launched a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting…Read more...

In her book Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes writes about how she spent “every single morning” of high school trying to make her hair look like Whitney Houston’s hair. “Hours and hours of my life given over to a hot curling iron and a bottle of hair spray and burned fingertips,” she describes. But she could never get it…Read more...

Love cheeseburgers and frosties? Have we found the deal for you! For the month of September, Wendy’s is passing out a free Dave’s single cheeseburger with the purchase of any other item from Wendy’s menu through a coupon found in its mobile app.

My ex-husband did not know how to cook many things, but he was always willing to learn. I’ll never forget one 76-degree December evening (we lived in Florida) when he called from the other room: “Hey sweetie, I have a couple of questions.” “What?,” I asked. “Uh, first, how do you bake a potato? And is a Christmas tree…Read more...

Windows 10 is reportedly going to start warning users when installing a non-edge browser. Beta testers are currently getting an early look at Microsoft’s upcoming October 2018 Windows Update, and some have noticed a rather annoying new inclusion.

Even when the paid version of an app only costs a few bucks up front, there’s something about paying up for a service you’ve been using for free that can feel like a bridge too far. Flash sales, where apps are discounted or free for a limited time, are great for getting apps you’ve been eying but won’t shell out…Read more...

For knowledge workers in the 21st century, efficiency and productivity are still integral to being seen as a “success.” We value writers who can produce 10 pieces of content each day, and we look to investing personalities for advice on what 10 trades to make to maximize our portfolios. But what if we could reframe…Read more...

Airbnb is asking hosts to open up their homes for free to people who are evacuating from Hurricane Florence, and to relief workers who have been deployed to the area.Read more...

If you’re planning to buy a brand-new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, or iPhone XR, there’s one big thing you’ll want to do after you’ve secured your preorder (if you manage to get one with reasonable shipping times). Make an appointment on your calendar for iPhone pickup day...and set a calendar appointment for exactly two…Read more...

Autumn is dying. But for now, September is still when the leaves start changing in the Northeast. In honor of leaf peeping season, this week we collected your tips on traveling to New England. You can read all the best comments under the Staff tab in that link. We’ve excerpted the very best below.

Apple held its annual September event earlier today, announcing a new iPhone (a few of them, actually), a new Apple Watch, and a handful of other goodies.

A large chunk of Apple’s audience is already lighting their bank accounts on fire in anticipation of all the neat new gear they can start preordering this week. That’s just the way it is, and partly why Apple can afford to do things like build sprawling, $200 buildings in the heart of Silicon Valley.Read more...

As a writer of food-things and lover of breakfast foods (at non-breakfast times), I have eaten many an egg. I don’t know that there is a preparation I don’t enjoy, but a sunny side up egg, fried in olive oil until the edges are crispy ranks very high on my list. I didn’t think there was much improving on the method,…Read more...

It’s come to this: Doctors are now being told to prescribe play. The American Academy of Pediatrics details the urgency of the matter in a policy statement. There is a play deficit in this country, and we know it, don’t we? In articles about parenting, it seems that there’s no breed dissected more than that of the…Read more...

Natural disaster responses increasingly rely on electronic devices for communication. In the aftermath of a destructive storm, your phone or tablet can be a literal lifeline—so it needs to actually work.Read more...

When you purchase music, movies or books from Amazon or Apple’s iTunes store, you might be under the impression that that material is yours to enjoy forever; that’s how CDs and paper books work, after all. Why rent You’ve Got Mail for $3.99 every few months when you can “own” it and watch it whenever, forever, for…Read more...

One year after the release of the iPhone X, Apple has returned in 2018 to completely revamp its entire phone lineup with multiple new handsets based on last year’s $1,000 flagship: So say hello to the iPhone Xs. But that’s not all, because this year, Apple’s flagship has a super-sized sibling in the new iPhone Xs Max.

Last week a story emerged about a couple that was traveling in Bali and ended up in a scooter accident on their way back to their hotel. Their phone with a local SIM had died, and their only way to call for help was to post on Facebook using a phone tied to an American SIM—a Facebook post that helped them find help…Read more...

Today, Ask Reddit users are telling each other about what areas of expertise that they never get to talk about in normal life. Subjects include rocket science, serial killers, Pokemon Go meta strategy, the NFL (as an expat), and “the R-rated parts” of Roman history. We want to hear the same from Lifehacker readers,…Read more...

In terms of earthly delights, a fresh, soft cookie with perfectly crispy edges and gooey chocolate chips is extremely hard to compete with. Though there is nothing wrong with making—and eating—an entire baker’s dozen in an evening, you might be the type of person who has “impulse control,” and wishes to enjoy only a…Read more...

The 2018 iPhone lineup release is mere hours away, and Apple will certainly be unveiling all sorts of exciting developments. For most of us, all that really matters is if we can get it immediately.Read more...

If you’ve been frustrated with the gender options on dating apps, you have may a new friend with benefits in OkCupid.Read more...

Forget the milk and eggs: If your power goes out, the last thing you want is a fridge full of perishables. Instead, here’s what to stock up on and how to plan ahead for a loss of power.

One of the great inconveniences of air travel is not being able to bring your liquids through security. After passing through the body scanner, you’re probably quite parched, and find the only options for liquid replenishment are an $8 bottle of “fancy” water, or a very low (and very low-pressure) water fountain…Read more...

The A.V. Club The Tonight Show just canceled tonight’s Norm Macdonald appearance | Deadspin The Skins Are About To Officially Lose Another Bullcrap Attendance Streak | The Root When You Hate a Black Man’s Silent Protest So Much, You Ban Nike In Your City | The Slot Julia Salazar On Sexual-Assault Allegation Surfaced…Read more...

With the one-year anniversary of the Equifax breach just behind us, here’s a reminder that you will be able to freeze your credit reports and sign up for year-long fraud alerts for free starting Sept. 21 thanks to a federal law passed earlier this year.

The National Hurricane Center expects Hurricane Florence to cause “life-threatening, catastrophic flash flooding” when it makes landfall later this week, and now there’s a tool that gives us an idea of just how catastrophic that impact will be.Read more...

If you’re having problems with your PlayStation 4 and need to get it fixed—or need a replacement—you don’t need to lose your game save data. Using cloud backups, you can upload all of your information beforehand, allowing you to quickly download it again and continue playing once you get your system back.

Citymeals on Wheels funds the delivery of over 3 million meals a year to elderly residents in New York City, filling in gaps like weekends and holidays that government programs leave out. Since 2011, Beth Shapiro has been the non-profit’s executive director, overseeing every step from fundraising to delivery, keeping…Read more...

Get excited. It’s time for some Apple bingo. When I worked at the Lord of Cupertino during a keynote, we all sat around in a conference room to eat donuts, snark via group messages, and cheer members of our larger team that were blessed tapped to present at the event. We did not play bingo.Read more...

Adequate Man Pardon The Interruption Needs To Die | The Grapevine Keep It Classy: Kelly Rowland Speaks Out About Witnessing the Cardi B vs. Nicki Minaj Melee | Jezebel Why Your Fashion Designer Sucks: Tory Burch | The A.V. Club Norm Macdonald discusses Louis CK and Roseanne Barr, manages to step on every landmine | …Read more...

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

Unions are good and, according to a recent Gallup poll, most people want to support them. Considering the tumultuous year they’ve had, this support is much appreciated. Besides not crossing picket lines, one easy way you can support labor unions is by purchasing goods made or distributed by unionized workers.Read more...

“What’s a product or service you should NEVER cheap out on?” asks redditor Kill_Dr_Phil. Thousands of redditors have answers. We’ve collected some of the most thought-out answers.

There are plenty of reasons to run a virtual machine. The first, and most compelling, is that you want to play: Maybe there are some other operating system you want to dabble with (cough Linux cough), but you don’t want to deal with installing another hard drive, partitioning your existing drive, or setting up your…Read more...

Linux users are likely familiar with Wine—a piece of software that allows Windows software to be run on Linux.Read more...

Colleges and universities often offer mental health counseling as a free service, but school counselors aren’t always required to keep your information private. Here are your options, and what to know, if you want to seek help confidentially.