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23andMe has reached a deal with pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, giving the company access to their (your) genetic data to potentially develop new drugs. Did they just sell us all out? Not exactly.

The lowkey best part about the Apple Watch is that it’s incredibly easy to change bands, and you can get extras for very cheap, as long as you aren’t buying them in the Apple Store. This leather band comes in a few colors and is available in both 42mm and 38mm sizes. Get it for $7 today with promo code D2CLXXOU.

Soup and soup delivery systems continue to evolve and, as Jezebel reported earlier this week, Panera is transforming the soup-eating experience into something quite dadaesque by giving us a soup trough, with not one—but two—compartments.

iOS: One of the best parts of any science-fiction game or movie are those ominous tones that suggest a conversation or discovery is about to head south—a quintessential part of the soundtrack that adds a lot of atmosphere (and tension) to an experience. And now, thanks to an open-source iOS app, you can make your own…Read more...

I cannot do a handstand. Or a headstand. I get kind of terrified even just trying to put my legs up above me onto a wall. Are you with me? Let’s get out of our comfort zones. If you can already do handstands, well, I’ll have some extra challenges for you too.

Most of us know we spend too much time on our phones. It’s led to a host of studies on the negative effects, and there are definitely repercussions to constantly peeking at your notifications and following those digital squirrels at every chance you get.

I fully admit that 90 percent of the Durham Bulls games I attended while living in North Carolina were really just an excuse to drink beer outside. As such, it didn’t really matter to me when I arrived at the game or when I left, as long as I had enough time to have a few beers inside, talk to friends, and there was…Read more...

Eating at the beach can be very pleasant, but sand, sun, and seagulls can make it something of a challenge. The easiest way to safeguard against seagulls is to keep your meal in your hands, which is great news, because the sandwich is the perfect beach food. Here we show you how to build a masterpiece of meat, cheese,…Read more...

There are as many ways to learn to code as there are ways to use your coding ability. You can learn it from college courses, books, online resources—or from one of several growing boot camps for developers of all ages. We talked to the founders of two such boot camps: David Graham of Code Ninjas, for kids 7–14, and…Read more...

Tablets are in a tough spot nowadays. Do you go cheap and just push out something that’s essentially a big phone, or do you up the price and go for extra functionality like stylus and keyboard support? Over the past few years, Samsung has tried to make the most of Android by making tablets that were closer to…Read more...

iOS: We all get a lot of stuff in the mail these days. While you can sign up for all kinds of package-tracking services from the major shipping carriers, including individual tracking updates if you only care about an occasional package that’s on the way, I find it easiest to use an app like Arrive to keep track of…Read more...

This past week, during a particularly stressful day, I do what I always do when I want to complain to someone I know will listen: I called my dad. I’m lucky that our relationship is such that I can vent about work or daily living in New York City, and he’ll listen attentively and offer fatherly pearls of wisdom or…Read more...

Deadspin Behold A Cursed Phrase: “The Worst Loss In Mets History” | The Slot Donald Trump Is Bad at Pretending to Know How Grocery Shopping Works | Splinter Trump’s Tampa Rally Was Full of Insane Conspiracy Theorists | The A.V. Club This week in Savage Love: Differences | The Root #ServingYourNeighborhoodWhileBlack:…Read more...

Maurice Cherry pays it forward. The designer runs several projects that highlight black creators online, including designers, developers, bloggers, and podcasters. His design podcast Revision Path, which recently released its 250th episode, has won awards from AIGA and the Creative Market Awards. He told us about his…Read more...

Chipotle had so much fun giving free guacamole to their hordes of new digital subscribers yesterday, they’ve extended their promotion through today, Wednesday, August 1. No code necessary.

Adequate Man Who Has The Worst Logo In Sports? | Jezebel 21-Year-Old Adult Chloe Grace Moretz Deftly Handles Stupid Feud With 37-Year-Old Child Kim Kardashian | The Root Cue the World’s Smallest Violin: White Driver Who Followed Black Man, Called Him Slurs, Now Whines About Life Being Ruined | Splinter Amazon Is…Read more...

We’re all about self-improvement on The Upgrade, whether we’re learning how to embrace boredom, how to have a better sex life, or how to be more resilient. So it’s only sensible that we’d take a step back and look at how to improve the podcast itself. That’s right: we’re upgrading The Upgrade.Read more...

On the parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood, co-host Amy Wilson told a childhood story about how she loved to poop in a diaper “until a pretty ripe old age.” She knew she shouldn’t do it, and her mom and dad knew she knew, but their efforts to get her to stop weren’t working. And so…Read more...

Impulse buying is a thing, and we’re all guilty of it from time to time. Sometimes, if you’re feeling a little down, it feels good to place an order for that little thing you’ve been meaning to buy, but never quite got around to picking up. Or maybe you see a deal for something you’ve been eyeing and figure, “Eh,…Read more...

You can swab the inside of your dog’s cheek to find out whether they have any genes linked to certain canine diseases—but it may be best if you don’t. These services have flaws similar to those of human DNA tests, including false positives and false negatives.

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. Most foods taste better when they’re homemade, but there are a few treats that I prefer to purchase, whether it’s due to my lack of ability, laziness, or…Read more...

Redditors are sharing their favorite “life pro tips” in an AskReddit thread, and we’ve collected the best below. (Some will be familiar to Lifehacker readers.) Strung together, they feel like a mundane modern Art of War: briefly worded tactics and strategies for fighting the good fight. Learn tricks for falling…Read more...

In a bid to keep consumers who sign up for credit cards for the one-time bonus and then cancel them shortly after, issuers are beginning to offer annual points bonuses, reports CNBC.

Buying a used car is a great way to get more value for your dollar, and getting a car with a certified pre-owned warranty adds some extra protection. But some dealers aren’t always honest when making claims about their “certified” cars. Here are a couple of instances that should raise some flags.Read more...

You know when you ask someone to take a picture of you and your family on vacation, and you quickly learn that almost nobody understands how to take a decent photo? With a mini tripod, you can be in total control of those long range selfies, and this $19 model from Aukey (after clipping the $5 coupon) works with…Read more...

Say a webpage isn’t loading right. Maybe it’s collapsed from too much traffic after going viral on Reddit. Maybe it’s blocked in your country thanks to a law like GDPR. Maybe it was recently deleted. Usually Google has a saved copy of that page. And the quickest way to get that saved copy is to type cache: in the…Read more...

Space, as we all know, is the final frontier. It’s the star-spangled playground in which our imaginations run amok, and the setting for stories that made us fall in love with sci-fi. Some of us spent hours pretending we were the Doctor’s companions, helping him find Gallifrey from the TARDIS. Some of us imagined the …Read more...

Deadspin Bryce Harper Is Available | Jezebel Alaska Airlines Made a Same-Sex Couple Move so a Straight Couple Could Sit Together | Splinter Jesse Watters Says We Don’t Want ‘Some Guy’s Uncle From Zimbabwe’ in America | The Root Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Give a Damn About Students, Education or the Cost Thereof | The A.V.…Read more...

Mac: Your Mac’s Night Shift and True Tone modes are great and all, but they can be fussy at times, and they might not work (or work very well) with an externally connected display. Separately, it’s also annoying to have to tap buttons and fumble through on-screen displays just to adjust your monitor’s brightness and…Read more...

For no particular reason, over the past week or so a handful of Lifehacker staffers have been wondering whether a late payment on their corporate credit card would have an adverse affect on their personal credit score.Read more...

Deadspin Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Cleveland Browns | Splinter Medicare for All Will Save Trillions, Conservative Wonks Forced to Admit | The A.V. Club “Hitler was liberal” is just one insight offered by Dinesh D’Souza’s fraudulent Death Of A Nation | Very Smart Brothas Things Black People Say When You Might Be About…Read more...

No sound transports me back to haze of new parenthood quite like the rhythmic hum of a breast pump. What at first looked to me like a modern torture device quickly became an essential tool in allowing my daughter to be breastfed—it increased my milk supply, relieved pressure, and let me build up a freezer stash for…Read more...

Hello all you post-singularity sex marmosets, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’ll patch in co-op multiplayer two years after launch.

Should you put all of your discretionary money toward paying off your debt, or is it OK to splurge on something you’ve been eyeing? That’s what we’re discussing this week.

Want to try out Apple CarPlay or Android Auto without...buying a new car? This aftermarket Sony head unit is marked down to $348 today, and can be installed in any double-DIN dash opening on your existing vehicle.

Bitters are basically the spices of the cocktail world, and just a few dashes or drops can round out a drink or give it a bit of depth. Dashing them right into the glass is fine (obviously), but by freezing some of the gentian-infused liquid into a big ol’ cube, you get a drink that gets a little more special as you…Read more...

Last week the president, alluding to a poorly researched article by VICE News, accused Twitter of “shadow banning prominent Republicans.” Twitter didn’t shadow ban anyone. But they did hide some Republican politicians’ accounts, not because they were Republicans, but for two more embarrassing reasons.

Picture this: Your home is full of “smart” gadgets that you didn’t set up yourself, but you have a decent understanding of how to use them—or, at the very least, how to yell at [smart speaker you use] to play your favorite music.Read more...

Tell anybody in a health care setting that you’re hurting, and they always want a number. “How bad is the pain on a scale of one to 10,” they ask, “where one is no pain, and 10 is the worst pain you can imagine?”Read more...

In her acclaimed new memoir Now My Heart Is Full, Laura June writes about how becoming a parent has helped her make peace with the memory of her own mother, her mother’s alcoholism and their difficult relationship. Here, she talks about life with her daughter Zelda, from her belief that babies sometimes need to be…Read more...

Windows, Mac: There’s something delightful about the old LucasArts ScummVM games: the beautiful environments, the crafty puzzles, and the incredible voice-overs (for the games that weren’t just text captions over moving mouths).Read more...

Score discounts on some affordable wireless earbuds, a ton of stuff from Nike, two battery packs, and more of today’s best deals.Read more...

Amazon is expected to start offering a “checking-account-like product” for consumers who don’t already have bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported back in March. Other tech companies, like investing platform Stash and student loan refinancer SoFi, are also trying to get into the checking account game.

Jezebel ‘I Don’t Have to Explain Shit to You’: Restaurant Manager Fired After Ordering a Black Woman to Leave [Update] | The Root White Fox News Guest: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than Being Called A Racist’ | Splinter Why Income Inequality in the US Is Way Worse Than in Europe | Deadspin Braves Announcers Throw…Read more...

Even if you live in a “hipster” city like Austin, Brooklyn, Seattle, and San Francisco, you should take a trip to the prime hipster city, Portland. It’s an easy city to visit, with affordable food and entertainment, fun options for splurging, beautiful parks, temperate weather, efficient transportation (even from the…Read more...

At the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes, air-conditioning can seem almost too good to be true. It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent downsides: all it does, or all it seems to do, is make things cooler,…Read more...

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Netflix loves to deluge us with new stuff early in the month, so while you’re shaking your head at how fast summer is going by—yes, it’s already August—you can take cold comfort in A/C and a bunch of slightly interesting new releases to stream.

If you’re frustrated by President Trump’s misinformed thoughts on climate change and other environmental issues, now you can do something to help the environment every time he makes one using the site Treespond.

These days I tend to travel at least two weeks out of every month, which means, amongst other things, that I’ve become a pro at clinging out of a suitcase. I know exactly what I need to pack for a week away and how to pack it so it all fits comfortably in my carry-on so I can avoid checking a bag at the gate. The…Read more...