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Amazon Prime Day is a full day (plus several hours!) of special discounts on items you can purchase online or at Whole Foods. Prime Day this year will take place on July 16, starting at 3 p.m. eastern time, and will last for 36 hours. To be eligible for most (but not all) of the deals, you have to be an Amazon Prime…Read more...

It can feel daunting to start from zero when you’re a newbie saver or investor. You have financial professionals advising you to put away 20 percent of your income and save double your salary by the time you’re 35, while you’re struggling to pay rent and make your student loan payments on time. Saving anything at all…Read more...

It’s summertime and wanderlust is coming for us all. It’s important that you get out there and see the world, but it’s equally important that your phone is as ready for your travels as you are. After you’ve thrown a dart on the map and purchased your plane ticket, try these tips to make sure you’re not burning through…Read more...

When it comes to burgers, I prefer to keep things simple. A thin, smashed patty, a good melty cheese, maybe a little onion, tomato, and pickles. I don’t need fried eggs, avocado, or super thicc bacon. I am, however, very into the idea of cheese mayonnaise, which frankly streamlines my already simple burger even…Read more...

Any time you see splashy headlines about a new study, or some marketer says that “studies show” their diet or product has a certain effect, chances are they’re talking about a paper in a journal that you have dicey odds of being able to access.

TCL’s inexplicably excellent 4K TVs got even better this year, and Walmart’s running one of the first real deals on the brand new 2018 6-series sets.

Every Wednesday, this YouTube series adds a new music video of a screaming frog saying “It is Wednesday, my dudes.” Wouldn’t one of these Wednesday songs make a better alarm for your Wednesday mornings than “Radar (Default)”? You can make this happen, my dudes.

When it comes to toddler hacks, this one has all the winning components. 1) You probably have the materials. 2) YOU GET TO SIT. And 3) It’s damn fun.Read more...

Have you been wondering why you’re not getting any matches on Tinder or Bumble? We think of these apps as being just about the photos, but if you’re not having any luck, consider your bio. It might need an update.Read more...

As I mentioned earlier this morning, Mozilla rolled out two new apps the other day as part of its Test Pilot program: One for syncing passwords between your Firefox browser and your iOS device (and soon, Android), and another app (and extension) for synchronizing notes between your Firefox browser and an Android…Read more...

People have always been able to reach out to the Instagram users they follow, and receive replies to their comments, by using the messaging feature baked into Instagram Stories. Thanks to a new questions sticker Instagram debuted, you now have a more formal (and fun) way to conduct interviews with your followers,…Read more...

If talking out loud to Alexa (or your digital assistant of choice) feels unnatural, you’re not alone. I’ve had Siri for as long as she’s been alive, yet I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve spoken to her. It’s always seemed easier to open an app on my iPhone or type in a Google query and get exactly what…Read more...

When my kid was an infant, I found myself in a deep relationship with something called a Boppy. A ubiquitous baby product, it is a pillow designed to help nursing moms breastfeed—you basically wear it around your body like a four-year-old going swimming. Though its functionality extends beyond that. The Boppy saved…Read more...

Capital One’s Credit Wise, a free credit tracking tool, will now alert you if and when someone uses your Social Security Number to apply for a new line of credit or open another financial account.

iOS: There are plenty of incredible password managers out there—1Password and LastPass come to mind—but Mozilla has password-management aspirations of its own. The company just released two new new mobile apps as part of its Test Pilot program and one, Firefox Lockbox, is a pretty convenient way to pull up your…Read more...

Update your wardrobe with Calvin Klein clothes, and pick up the best deals we’ve ever seen on Philips Hue starter kits and Logitech’s Harmony remotes. Plus, find many more great deals.Read more...

It’s easy to be there for friends and family members during the Big Life Events, like weddings, milestone birthdays, or a new job. These are big-ticket happenings that don’t take too much effort on our part, that allow us to show our appreciation for our friends simply by showing up.

On How I Work, we like to find people with especially challenging jobs. Making the recipes at a meal-kit-by-mail service seems challenging: each recipe must be crowd-pleasing, easy to follow, and use ingredients that can be shipped around the country in vast quantities divvied into tiny portions. At Plated (acquired…Read more...

Amazon’s Gold Box is full (two pages full) of up to 50% off men’s Calvin Klein shirts, ties, khakis, and more. Prime Members can stock up on button downs for work or weddings you have to attend, or grab a handful of ties because you really need to stop wearing the same one to every slightly fancy event or dinner you…Read more...

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Anyone who’s ever put their wallet through the washing machine has wondered what to do with a ruined wad of cash. Your local bank can replace a few torn bills, but if your emergency cash has been petrified, burned to a crisp, partially digested, or otherwise severely damaged, you’ll need to call in the professionals.

If there is one thing I miss about living in the South, it’s being able to waltz into the grocery store and pick up a plastic clamshell of decent banana pudding. Now, if I want a good ‘un, I have to make it myself, and that requires more waiting than I can tolerate.Read more...

Android: Sometimes you want to watch a video on YouTube and not have it show up in your history. For those moments when you need to go undercover, YouTube recently added an Incognito mode that makes it easier to watch videos without leaving a trace.Read more...

Marijuana is becoming legal in more and more places, which means that more and more people are bringing home weed. No matter if you prefer low-key vape cartridges, sticky nugs, tasty edible treats, or the myriad varieties of concentrates, one thing remains the same: You have to keep that stuff away from your kids.

Eds. note: We received the following email from a reader, who requested that we publish it because he thinks it can help other people. We strongly agree. After verifying facts of the story, we are republishing it in full—with names changed and lightly edited for clarity, and with the express permission of him, his…Read more...

In the pursuit of life hacks, one can be consumed by a madness. The whole world becomes both hammer and nail. Is a power cord a jump rope? Is a sponge a pincushion? With enough time, effort, and visits to the craft store, can anything become anything?Read more...

“Ahh-ha!” you think to yourself. “Apple has finally made it impossible for the police to see what’s on my confiscated iPhone.”Read more...

Being a teenager in 2018—I don’t know how it’s done. Imagine having the same list of pressures that you had as a high school kid—school, extracurriculars, chores, a social life often filled with angst—and then adding on the constant pull of social media, alerting you to all the things you’re not doing. (“Did you see…Read more...

7-Eleven convenience stores are handing out free Slurpees this Wednesday, July 11, from 11 to 7, for the chain’s annual 7-Eleven Day. You can even get one in the temporary featured flavor, Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries. And for the five following days, 7-Eleven is running different “buy X get Y” deals on junk food:

Who knows where you ran last week? If you’re privacy-minded, perhaps just you...and your running app. But our fitness apps often share more information than we realize. The Strava app, and now Polar Flow, have released maps that gave away potentially sensitive military locations.

Everyone’s hot on Roth IRAs, but there’s one drawback: There are income limits starting at $189,000 for a couple and $120,000 for an individual, which means higher earners must go with a traditional IRA or a backdoor Roth. It turns out, though, that those limits don’t apply to Roth 401(k)s—meaning you can get all the…Read more...

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. This week I want to talk about summer vacations, rental kitchens, and the things we bring to make cooking in them easier.Read more...

If you’re using online services to comparison shop flight prices, buyer beware: many deals are actually laden with hidden fees.

Is gun play a bad thing? Parents sometimes find it unnerving when they hear shouts of “Bang! Bang!” coming from the top of the staircase and discover their children engaged in full pretend battle. But kids are looking through a different lens than adults. Toy guns—cardboard, Nerf, or otherwise—can be a prop to explore…Read more...

Mac: When updating Lifehacker’s Mac Pack for 2018, some readers noticed that I didn’t include any clipboard management apps this time around. It’s nothing personal; there were just other apps I thought were more interesting.Read more...

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I should warn you, you’re about to waste a lot of time learning useless trivia. Wikipedia contributors have compiled a list of “unusual articles”—really just articles about unusual things—and the list alone is over 27,000 words long. We’ve collected over eighty of our favorites.

If you haven’t updated your iPhone to iOS 11.4 yet, you might want to hold off for a bit. The newest update to the operating system reportedly has a bug that will make your battery run out of juice a lot faster than it did prior to the update. As BGR notes, a thread on Apple’s support forum is already 35 pages deep…Read more...

If you have a high deductible health plan (HDHP) and end up needing emergency or planned surgery that puts you close to or over your deductible, consider what other procedures or care you can add on in that plan year, as Carolyn McClanahan explains for Forbes. “By approaching your medical care in a thoughtful manner,…Read more...

Anker’s SoundBuds Slims are our readers’ favorite affordable Bluetooth headphones, and you can grab a pair for just $19 with promo code WE5B8NAH, or $7 less than usual.Read more...

Opening your phone with your fingerprint or facial recognition is cool and convenient. But in the United States, enabling Touch ID or Face ID basically gives the cops free access to your phone if you’re arrested. Thankfully iOS and Android let you temporarily turn off fingerprint or face recognition with several…Read more...

As most Galaxy owners probably know, Samsung phones come with their own app store, Galaxy Apps, which includes items like new fonts and Edge setups for your device as well as other apps and games. It can be a great resource when you want to customize your phone and a great annoyance if you accidentally turn on…Read more...

Taking someone’s photo without their consent and posting it on the internet is a shitty thing to do. It’s invasive, inappropriate, and can even put the other person in danger. In a world that made any sense, this wouldn’t require further explanation. This would be a commonly understood part of the social contract.Read more...

Is a house worth your retirement savings? That’s the question a reader is puzzling over this week.

Baking is less about feeding oneself and more about having a hobby, and I tend to gravitate toward dead-simple recipes I can throw together on a whim. Though I have absolutely nothing against perfectly executed pastry, it takes a certain amount of patience to make such, which is why I bake my bounty of summer fruits…Read more...

There may be no more exhausting feeling than waking up the day after a big outdoor party only to see the total devastation of your house and backyard. The last thing you want to do is plan the next cookout when you’re doing the clean up from last night’s. But it may be the best time for it.Read more...

So you’re running out of space on your iPhone. Perhaps you’ve been unable to download that new movie you purchased to your device because there’s no room. Maybe your iPhone has popped up the dreaded “Storage Almost Full” warning. However you were notified that you were running low on space is irrelevant: Your iPhone…Read more...

I don’t know if you’ve heard about this underground trend, but apparently, movies about superheroes from the Marvel universe have become very popular. So many of these features have been released that parents with jobs/lives often can’t keep the 18 movies (as I write) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe* straight.

We are approaching the best time of the year for meteor showers, so grab a blanket, some brewskies, and this handy guide to actually finding them.Read more...

You can eat pizza for a living, if you’re good enough at it—and if you work hard and get to know everyone in the pizza business. Scott Wiener turned his love of pizza into Scott’s Pizza Tours, a growing business conducting food tours by foot and by bus in Manhattan. In this video episode of How I Work, we shadowed him…Read more...