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Welcome to Slow Cooker Week, in which The Takeout uses its favorite cold-weather kitchen appliance in the dead of summer.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. Last week’s cookout casserole was one of my all-time favorites, but it’s time to move on, and I think we should move on to something sweet.Read more...

Building your credit is one of the toughest but most necessary financial tasks when you’re entering the working world, and a credit card—when used correctly—can be a great tool to help you secure lower interest rates on a car or house loan.Read more...

Guy Raz is the creator and host of three NPR podcasts—two for grownups (How I Built This and TED Radio Hour) and one for kids (Wow in the World). In our family car, we’ve been a little obsessed with Wow in World ever since the show enlightened us about two-headed space worms, brain freeze and poop science. Raz tests…Read more...

Windows, Mac: There are plenty of apps you can use to put on a little light show in your house (or geek den) if you’ve bought into Philips’ Hue ecosystem. My room is full of the company’s expensive color-changing LED bulbs, and I’ve checked out a few of these apps, but generally don’t need to make my room look like an…Read more...

We’ve talked about taking spending freezes, allowing ourselves to buy nice things every now and then and delineating our money goals, all to help get us in the right financial mindset to save money. Another strategy I like is overcoming the immediate-gratification urge by picking something to look forward to.Read more...

Deadspin AAU Contest Ends In Massive Brawl Between Players And Referees | Jezebel Kylie Jenner Had Her Lip Injections Sucked Out, Looks Like a New (Old?) Person | The Root #PoolPatrolPatty: White Apartment Manager Fired After Calling Police on Black Couple Because of Socks | Splinter California Prosecutor Caught…Read more...

Anker’s popular battery packs and charging gear, two affordable robotic vacuums, Amazon’s Fire HD tablets, and more start off this week’s deals.

If you have a Smart TV, then chances are good it came with Samba TV, a technology that allows marketers to track what you’re watching so they can send you ads relevant to your interests (and make show recommendations).

The Wikivoyage page for Johannesburg, South Africa says that by looking up at Hillbrow and Brixton, the city’s two towers, you can figure out which part of town you’re in. Here on Hack Your City, that kind of navigation trick—not as crucial in Smartphone Times, but still helpful for a visitor getting their bearings—is…Read more...

Ecovacs makes some of the most popular budget-friendly robotic vacuums out there, and two of their best models are cheaper than ever today, for Prime members only.Read more...

Amazon’s kicking off more Prime Day lead-up deals today, and the highlight is a collection of popular Anker gear, marked down to some of the best prices we’ve seen.

If you’re nursing an obsession with MSNBC’s Lockup series, this is the week to finish State Prisons: Collection 1 (leaving July 15) to make room for Extended Stay: Collection 1 (arriving July 9).Read more...

One of my favorite parts of traveling is meeting new people and exploring new cultures where I am. When you don’t know where to do to meet those people or have those unique cultural experiences, then things can get a little difficult.

MoviePass users that tried to catch a movie Friday night might have had an unexpected surprise: their app didn’t work. An outage Friday evening prevented a number of users from checking in to a film, making it so they had to spend cash to buy a ticket the old fashioned way if they still wanted to go see a movie.

This month Google finally made it possible for Android users to send text messages from their computer, a feature that iPhone/iMessage users have had for… forever.

You don’t need to buy a new car to get a life-changing backup camera, you just need $127 (with code HR3GQZZX), and a few minutes to run the wires. This model attaches to your license plate, and runs to a special rear view mirror that attaches in front of your existing mirror.Read more...

If you’re interested in buying something on Amazon but the price is just a little too expensive for you right now, PriceAlert can track that items and let you know when the price gets low enough for you to bite the bullet and make the purchase.

Despite my constant claims that I’m going to move to an all-digital library, I still buy a ton of books. I’ve started to embrace the fact that I like having physical copies of things. Besides just loving act of holding a book while I’m reading it, it also makes things a ton easier to share with friends.

You probably don’t want to give your toddler a cell phone, but sending a message to your child at home between meetings or getting that all-important “Where are the Cheerios?!” message via text rather than a dozen phone calls could be pretty nice.

Snag a great deal on TCL’s 4K smart TVs, our readers’ favorite travel pillow, a patio umbrella sale, and lots more of today’s best deals.Read more...

Become a more organized person with these discounted bookcases, desk shelves, and entry way coat racks. There’s about a dozen or so products to look through, but my pick would be this wall shelf with hooks for coats and dog leashes and small shelves for mail, keys, or whatever else tends to collect by your front door.…Read more...

Earther One of the World’s Biggest Insurers Is Ditching Coal | The A.V. Club No thanks, King Gizzard: 7 examples of pop culture where the name alone keeps you away | The Takeout Y’all really like eating at Chick-fil-A, huh |Read more...

Now that the second season of Westworld is over, freezing motor functions on a delightful, but somewhat-confusing series for the next year or two, you might feel a bit lost about what you should do next. Find another show to binge? Re-read even more fan theories? Start writing out a delightful old-timey piano cover of…Read more...

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

I’m so diligent about my sunscreen these days that my skin now, in July, is still the same light beige color that it was this winter. But if you yearn for that sun-kissed glow, you’re probably wondering what is the best way to get a tan—and whether any method is truly safe.

It’s a pretty specific issue, but an annoying one. If you’re playing around with the latest public beta for Apple’s macOS Mojave—as of when we wrote this article—and you’re a big fan of Chrome, you might have wondered where your checkboxes and (some) website buttons have gone.Read more...

Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re adding both hydration and a bit of a tropical vibe to our drink by way of coconut water.Read more...

It’s been a pretty sweet ride here at Lifehacker, but it’s time I mosey on out of town and ride off into the sunset. Maybe a few of you will be sad to hear I’m leaving. Perhaps some of you are happy to see me go. But me? Well, I’m just happy I got to be here.

When we last rounded up our staff’s Weekly Upgrades, our editors were checking out e-books from the library, banishing gross toilet brushes from our bathrooms, exploring new cities, and feathering our nests with new bedding.Read more...

When parents tell their teenagers to do something, it makes them want to, well, not do it. You know this if you have a teen, or if you have ever been a teen. Moms and dads can keep pushing, nagging, threatening to shut down Fortnite forever, but that only leads to short-term compliance at best.

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can look up not just the song, but what other music it samples or is sampled in.

As useful as a U.S. passport is for seeing most of the world, it doesn’t grant you easy access everywhere. Some countries have strict policies about who they let in, and acquiring tourist visas to those countries can be almost impossible—without the right approach.

Garlic bread is not a complicated concept; it’s bread with garlic on it. But, within those two ingredients alone, there is a lot of room for variation. I’ve tinkered around with both the bread and garlic portions of the pungent carb (butter, however is nonnegotiable), and I have arrived at what I believe to be quite…Read more...

Think about a book you read last year. How much of it do you remember? Could you list ten things you learned from it? Can you even remember what books you read last year? Back in school, you actually had to remember what you’d read. Tests, term papers, and book reports were all just ways to help you retain that…Read more...

There’s a lot of discussion about diversity and inclusion at companies, in particular those focused on tech, but one marginalized group that often gets overlooked is older people. What constitutes “older” varies wildly depending on your industry and personal outlook, of course, but anyone closer to retirement than…Read more...

Squats can be as hard or as easy as you want them to be. If you’re doing 100 a day, you may need to ease up to be able to get your quota in without making yourself too sore. And if you’re a total beginner, you may find the simplest squats to be more than enough of a challenge. Here are a few to try:

What’s the name of that book, again? You know the one. From when we were kids. It was a children’s chapter book about a family that moves into an old schoolhouse?Read more...

Summertime is, to me, synonymous with spicy peanut noodles, which I’ve been making every summer since I was allowed to cook pasta by myself. I love them so much that they almost make suffering through vicious, swampy heat and humidity feel worthwhile. Almost.Read more...

I get why people have baby showers. If you’re the pregnant one, you’re glowing (it could be the excessive sweat from all those raging hormones, but your guests won’t know the difference). Your hair has never looked better. You are filled with hope and wonder about the person growing inside you—Will he look like me?…Read more...

Paying off student loans is a slog, and for many can feel like a never-ending financial black hole. While Congress doesn’t seem bothered by our collective $1.6 trillion (and ever growing) debt, and any possible relief seems a long way off, there are small things you can do to lessen your loan load.Read more...

Earther This Story About Lions Killing Poachers Is Brutal | The A.V. Club Terry Gilliam is being predictably depressing about the BBC’s push for diversity in comedy | The Takeout Frozen French fries are the secret shortcut for Spanish Tortilla |Read more...

Hi! In this week’s edition of Tech 911—the column where I attempt to troubleshoot your common and obscure tech questions—we have a strong contender for “Huh of the Year,” if such an award existed. I’ve found that the best, most head-scratching problems tend to involve home networking, and this week’s issue is a real…Read more...

Amazon’s pulling out all the stops to promote Prime Pantry in the lead up to Prime Day, so you should cancel your next trip to the grocery store and stack the digital discounts while you can.

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

So you shot some footage for your indie film, but it doesn’t quite look like the stuff you see on the big screen. These simple video editing tricks will help make your footage look a lot more like the stuff the pros shoot.

If your regular ol’ Tinder profile pic isn’t getting enough people to swipe right, now you can replace it with a GIF.

There are a lot of intense dangers in nature, but perhaps the scariest of all is a hot, silent killer. According to the CDC, high temperatures kill more people in the U.S. than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods combined. Here’s how to survive a heat wave when you’re going to be outside all day.

They say only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, but even mad (or sad, or glad) dogs should probably stay inside when the temperature climbs too high. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke can wreak utter havoc on your canine friend, but there are a few things you can do to keep your dog cool and safe this…Read more...

You know when you come across a piece of expert advice and it’s something you already do out of convenience or laziness, and then you feel smug and think: Oh yes, I knew what I was doing all along? That’s what happened when I came across a tip in in Sarah Mackenzie’s wonderful book The Read-Aloud Family: Making…Read more...