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If you’ve ever experienced that eerie moment where you’ve been chatting about needing a new pair of shoes, then see an ad for a shoe sale in the middle of your social media feed just a few minutes later, you’ve likely wondered just how much our devices are listening in without us realizing. Whether or not that’s…Read more...

Small talk gets a lot of backlash; most people seem to think they’re too important to discuss the weather. It’s true that some small talk can feel shallow or boring, but it serves an important purpose. That’s why everyone should learn how to do it well.Read more...

If you’re wondering what to do with that Microsoft account that you never seem to use anymore, you can now connect it to Movies Anywhere and watch all of your digital movies in one place, regardless of where you bought them.

Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy, ending around 20 to 30 percent of all pregnancies, most in the first trimester. I knew these odds before it happened to me, yet I was still caught off guard—not only by the emotional toll of the loss, but also the decisions I had to make about how to complete…Read more...

Deadspin The NWSL’s Sky Blue FC Is Falling Apart, On The Field And Off | The A.V. Club Heel turns: 23 movie stars cast against type as villains | The Root A Belligerent Patriots Fan Tried to Bully a Black Woman Out of ‘His’ Neighborhood and Got Shut All the Way Down [Updated] | Splinter The GOP’s Likely Win in…Read more...

iOS, Android: I’m pretty sure Alarmy is evil, but perfect, because a good alarm clock should be two-parts irritating, one-part useful. You don’t want to hate your alarm clock whenever it wakes you up each morning, but a great alarm app shouldn’t be very easy to turn off (tempting you to you go back to bed).Read more...

Columbia’s Summer Sale, discounted Sealy foam mattresses, an HP EliteBook, and more lead today’s best deals.Read more...

Yesterday was Black women’s equal pay day—or the symbolic day that the average Black woman reached pay equity with white men this year—and Refinery29 ran a great piece on how three women discovered they were underpaid, and what they did about it. It’s filled with solid advice for learning your worth and asking for…Read more...

Maker Faires around the world attract over a million visitors each year. When Maker-in-chief Sherry Huss co-created the first Maker Faire in 2005, she’d already been organizing tech and media events for nine years. Now she’s run 12 years of Maker Faires, managing a worldwide team while carrying on several side…Read more...

Adequate Man Which Game Show Has The Best Final Round? | The Root A Belligerent Patriots Fan Tried to Bully a Black Woman Out of ‘His’ Neighborhood and Got Shut All the Way Down [Updated] | Splinter Wilbur Ross Accused of Being a Huge Crook in Bombshell New Article | Jezebel Eating an Entire Double Bread Bowl by…Read more...

When you were in college, posting that video of you doing an epic keg stand was cool. Now that you’ve finished law school and are looking for a firm to join—not so much.

Frickin’ Fortnite. Your kids won’t stop playing it, and you’re fed up. What do you do? You could join one of the many parent support groups, or make a musical parody to vent your frustrations, or try locking the game consoles in the car and hiding the key (yes, this is really happening).Read more...

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

Given that asking for facts is the most commonly-used feature of smart speakers like Amazon Echo, Alexa users are probably familiar with the phrase “I’m sorry, I don’t know that.”Read more...

If you do all your work in a browser, you can end up with dozens of tabs in one window. You could open new windows for different projects and shove tabs around, or develop the monk-like discipline to stop opening tabs. Or you could manage them practically by treating your browser like an operating system. The Chrome…Read more...

The nostalgia effect is powerful. If you’re still clinging to your old-school Nintendo Entertainment System (however you pronounce it) there’s no reason to let it collect dust in a closet or a forgotten corner of your home entertainment system. Your older gaming consoles will still work with your fancy new television,…Read more...

If you travel frequently and have a stash of miles you haven’t used yet, consider donating them to an organization that can use them to reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.

Do you spend more time on Twitter each day than you do sleeping? Are you a Facebook ninja whose wit turns the most basic status update into a thing of beauty? Do you love geeking out on the details of everything from how to fix a zipper to the finer points of modern etiquette? Are you the MacGyver of your friend group?

Hello, and welcome back to What’s Cooking?, the open thread where you get to share your brilliant thoughts, advice, recipes, and opinions on all things food-related. Today I want to talk about airport food, not to be confused with airplane food, and where you like to grab a bite when traveling.Read more...

Although it’s unlikely, if anything catastrophic happened to your house, you’d be glad you bought this $48 SentrySafe. It can protect your important documents from fire, water, and thieves with a privacy lock and the ability to withstand temperatures up to 1550 degrees and 72 hours underwater.Read more...

Here’s a wild statistic: 43 percent of highly qualified women leave the workforce after having children. For many in this camp, it’s not because they’ve lost their drive, or they’re incapable of juggling sippy cups and sales calls, or that they suddenly feel destined to spend every waking moment gazing at their babies…Read more...

Banking and investment fees could cost Americans more than $1.1 million over the course of their lifetime, according to a new report from NerdWallet.

Splinter Saudi State Media Posted a Photo That Sure Looks Like a Threat to Attack Toronto | Deadspin Barstool Sports’ Twitch Channel Shut Down After Employee Threatens To Swat Someone | The Root Beyoncé Has a FUPA. I Have a FUPA. We All Have a FUPA. ISSA CELEBRATION! | Jezebel Catherine Oxenberg Reveals Her Daughter…Read more...

Mac: When you’re jamming to some background music while browsing the web, getting work done, or chatting with friends, a song might pop up on one of your playlists that you absolutely love. The more this happens throughout the day, the more distracted and disjointed your work is going to feel—and you’ll never be able…Read more...

You’re excited for a new HBO show, but the trailers look pretty violent. You can stand some fighting, but you really hate torture scenes. Or you hate puke shots. Or you need to avoid strobe effects. Or your actual dog just died, and you’d rather not be reminded by a movie. Look up the title on Does the Dog Die?, a…Read more...

How can you reach a money goal when there’s always something else vying for the limited funds you have? That’s what we’re considering this week.Read more...

If reliability is something you crave in a pair of shoes (if it isn’t, you may need to reconsider), I bet you have Cole Haan in your closet. And if you’re looking for a new pair but don’t want to spend the normal asking price, Cole Haan is having a huge Summer Sale. That means 25-40% off their best sellers, plus…Read more...

Nashville police arrested two teenagers last Wednesday, after a press release from the department said they attempted to carjack two women that day. The statement said the teens ultimately failed both times, with the second being because the car had a manual transmission. They had to run away on foot.

Social media is great at making people feel like they’re alone in the world, but the truth is, not having tons of friends is normal and healthy.Read more...

Jason Kottke knows how to find stuff that’ll make you stop, look and think. When you visit his blog kottke.org, you feel like you’ve entered a rare hideaway on the internet—it’s a place to explore curiosities around the web that haven’t been shared 23 times on your Facebook feed. (Recent posts include the history and…Read more...

Running is an exercise well-suited for the lazy. Unlike group classes or club sports teams, which require commitment and planning ahead to reserve (and often pay for) your spot, all you need in order to go for a jog is a body, a pair of running shoes and a path ahead. And yet, despite the low barrier-to-entry that is…Read more...

There are so many Windows apps out there, that picking a list of the very best, most must-install software for your desktop or laptop feels daunting. We’ve pored over pages of recommendations, countless forum posts, and lots of comments to come up with this year’s Lifehacker Pack for Windows, a list of software…Read more...

Every day seems to be a new national holiday for something. However, today’s national holiday comes with a pretty solid benefit: free root beer floats.

Mozart wrote a party song called “Kiss My Ass.” The filthy lyrics (“kiss my ass, quickly, quickly”) weren’t discovered until 1991. This is the stuff you’d learn if the A.V. Club was doing interviews in the 1700s. And it’s another great way to appreciate classical music. Just like pop music, the music is more fun if…Read more...

Some (not all!) grain-free dog foods are getting extra scrutiny from the FDA, after several dogs who ate those foods developed a rare canine heart disease. You don’t have to ditch your dog’s favorite food just because it’s grain-free, but it’s worth taking a look at why you chose it and whether it’s really the best…Read more...

Words are pronounced however people pronounce them, and to insist otherwise is to fight a losing battle. This is why “giff” and “jiff” are equally valid. But for those who care, according to a new Nintendo 3DS game, NES (the classic Nintendo Entertainment System) is pronounced “ness.”

Lemonade and iced tea are two refreshing beverages and, when combined, they get even more so. The bitterness of black tea balances the sweetness of the lemonade, creating a thirst-quenching beverage with a little bit of a caffeine boost. The usual method of making requires the mixing of two beverages, but you can…Read more...

When you fall in love, it feels like you never want to spend a moment away from your special someone. How fun for everyone else you spend time with.Read more...

There are few things better than a summer dinner party and few things worse than cooking for one. Sweating over a red-hot grill in August heat as your guests get steadily drunker and hungrier makes for a truly unpleasant hosting experience.Read more...

Update: Back in stock, if you missed it last week.Read more...

Apple Pay is the highest-ranking peer-to-peer payment (P2P) system in terms of payment authentication to prevent fraud and data privacy, according to Consumer Reports’s first ever ranking of mobile payment systems.

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Windows: It’s been a long, long time since we talked about the Windows app Sizer, recently rewritten to be more compatible with Windows 10 apps. It’s almost embarrassing given the usefulness of this little utility. With the press of a few keyboard buttons, you can reconfigure the size of apps on your screen to any…Read more...

We’re a couple days late to the Fringe Festival, but there’s still time! This week on Hack Your City, we want to hear what’s good in Edinburgh, now and throughout the year. (We were going to do this whole post in that spelled-out Scottish dialect that’s so popular in memes, but then we decided we cannae keep it up, so…Read more...

Am I going to recommend you watch The Ponysitters Club? It depends on how desperate you are to stay inside this week, because things are not looking so great on the Netflix docket. The best thing happening, if you’re constitutionally suspicious of Netflix originals (and who isn’t), is the terrifying No Country for Old…Read more...

At some point we all have to be the one to deliver bad news to another person. Whether it’s breaking up with a significant other, firing a coworker or something else, we all have to do it. Quartz recently published a story by an oncologist who has to deliver bad news on a daily basis on what some of the best practices…Read more...

You may want to spend less time of sites like Facebook and YouTube, but actually doing it can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. HabitLab is an open-source project from Stanford that attempts to make cutting back on habit-forming sites a little bit easier.

We all know that working out is important, but sometimes actually making it to the gym is easier said than done. This week ClassPass unveiled a new app that can potentially make squeezing a workout in those days a little easier.

Sunday’s best deals lead with a big board game sale, a Brother printer, REI’s Garage Sale, and many more.Read more...

Sony’s WH1000XM2s put the noise-canceling headphone world on notice when they were released last year, and now, you now they’re back on sale for $50 off their usual $350, plus a bonus Sony Bluetooth speaker for good measure. They’re still a significant investment, but if you spend any amount of time in planes, trains,…Read more...