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So, you’re curious about the critically-acclaimed film Hereditary, but you’re the type that would rather skim a horror movie’s Wikipedia page than subject yourself to watching it between your fingers. Well, we’ve got you covered with a totally scare-free guide to this tongue-popping nightmare parade that will leave…Read more...

“Making your own” is a big part of home cook culture. One’s reasons for wanting to DIY every food thing may vary, but it usually has something to do with taste, health, or cost. Cost-wise, some things are obvious; cooking dinner at home is almost always cheaper than takeout, but things aren’t as straightforward when…Read more...

A sunscreen labeled “SPF 15” should let you spend about 15 times as long in the sun before you burn. Pretty awesome, right? Unfortunately, most of us don’t get that level of protection because we don’t apply enough. What you’re likely getting: a mere SPF 3-5.Read more...

For its tenth season, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee moves to Netflix, debuting twelve new episodes on July 6. While the whole season looks pretty good, I think can all agree that Kate McKinnon and Dave Chappelle are the big gets this time around. Other caffeinated passengers that appear promising include Jerry…Read more...

I doubt you’ve given much thought to how you share the latest and greatest YouTube videos you find, because you probably have a routine: click or tap on the video’s URL in your browser’s address bar, copy it, and paste it into a text message or group chat. Easy, right?Read more...

You aren’t getting the most out of your computer monitor until you put it on a fully articulating and rotating arm. This one from North Bayou can hold monitors up to 27", and even includes cable routing and a USB hub on the base that can be easier to reach than the USB ports on the back of your display. At $20, it’s…Read more...

One of the most common questions people have about getting their finances in order is how to possibly save enough for retirement when the numbers are so overwhelming. Life is expensive, and putting away 10 percent of your salary per year seems painful at best and impossible at worst.

Tuna may be the most popular canned fish on the market, but its image is firmly associated with school lunches and the occasional diner melt. Canned salmon, on the other hand, has the ability to rise above its station, and dazzle and delight even in fancy situations. You just have to treat it with a little bit of…Read more...

Do not touch this plant. If you get some of the sap on your skin, chemicals in the sap will attack the DNA in your skin cells and make you sensitive to the sun. So sensitive, in fact, that normal sun exposure can give you a blistering sunburn-like rash that takes weeks or months to go away.Read more...

iOS, Android: Keepsafe, the company behind privacy-focused apps like Blur for iMessage and Private Photo Vault (iOS, Android), launched a new app this week for browsing the web privately. Aptly named Keepsafe Browser (iOS, Android ), the browser prevents third-party trackers from snooping on your mobile web browsing…Read more...

Stocking up on staples is a great way to stretch a budget and minimize waste, so a good chest freezer is a boon to the budget-minded home cook. Sadly, common misconceptions about their energy usage and footprint size discourage the folks who would benefit the most from a chest freezer—apartment-dwellers with decrepit,…Read more...

In her new book The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids, architecture critic Alexandra Lange explains that since the dawn of the mass-produced toy industry, there have been Good Toys and Bad Toys in the eyes of adults. “The Bad Toy is one that just sits there, to be mashed and pulled in…Read more...

We’ve all been there. You agree to a group dinner when you’re on a tight budget, ordering the soup and a side salad while your friends split appetizers, order entrées and try fancy new cocktails. You watch helplessly as the bill comes, and your friend’s boyfriend you were never really a fan of to begin with utters…Read more...

Find a one-day Logitech sale, the small kitchen-friendly Instant Pot Ultra mini, boxer briefs perfect for the summer heat, and more of today’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

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Android: There are plenty of people who don’t need bells and whistles when an easy-to-understand, well-designed app will do. And that’s my impression of Google’s new Podcasts app—teased for some time and finally made available for download as of yesterday.Read more...

Patrick Moberg has wasted hours of your life, or of the life of someone next to you in a waiting room. His studio Dots created the beautiful and addictive mobile game Dots (the thinking person’s Candy Crush), and its sequels Two Dots and Dots & Co, all of which are on millions of phones. We talked to him about the…Read more...

Electronic communication can still create a paper trail, as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort learned recently when his bail was revoked for alleged witness tampering while he was on house arrest awaiting two trials.

Losing your wallet is like losing a part of you. Everything is in there—your driver’s license, your credit cards, your membership IDs, and your photos of loved ones. This clever trick can help you avoid losing your wallet forever the next time you venture out into the outdoors.Read more...

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

This week we have a woman who gets along with men well in a platonic way, but recently introduced a flirty gal pal to the mix. Can she get them to stop flirting with each other? Or does she need to get over it?

You can read all the books about what to expect when you’re growing a human inside you, but the fact sheets and stats don’t always tell you the real story. In the video above, Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, shares a few things you should know…Read more...

Whole Foods has never been know for its price deals—people go for the dazzling array of cold-pressed juices and asparagus water, I imagine—but, since the Bezos takeover, prices on certain items have dropped pretty drastically, and they’ve stayed down.

I went through most of my life thinking I was allergic to penicillin. I’d had hives with a dose of the stuff as a child, and an also-allergic family member taught me to look for an allergy section on every medical form I filled out, and make sure to write “penicillin” on the line.

The term “constitutional crisis” has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last two years, but what does it mean? And what could it lead to? Here’s what you need to know.

If you routinely forget to set calendar reminders to cancel free trials before they auto-renew, consider using a prepaid card instead of your credit card, as this Redditor recommends.

The hardest task on most to-do lists is the invisible one: getting motivated to do anything at all. And the more important your tasks are, the more you can scare yourself out of even starting. One trick to fight this, according to the producers of the YouTube channel How to ADHD, is a simple meditation-like technique.Read more...

We thought the problems of the “V steam” were widely understood, but recently Chrissy Teigen posted on Instagram that she’s trying a vaginal steam despite not being sure whether it will work or whether, perhaps, her vagina might dissolve.Read more...

A new, unpleasant report making the rounds today is a great reminder that your Mac’s Quick Look feature—useful as it might be for previewing files by mashing your space bar—stores information about the contents of encrypted USB drives you’ve connected to your system.

Apple unveiled some killer new features in its WWDC 2018 keynote presentation earlier this month. In iOS 12 (which you can beta-test right now), users will be able to train Siri, stop sites from tracking them, and limit how much time they spend in apps. The worst part? These new features won’t officially launch until…Read more...

We’ve all stared down a sad, empty fridge at too-late-for-a-grocery-run-o’clock on a weeknight, willing some higher power to magically replenish the shelves while our eyes are closed.

When I was a kid, my dad taught me how certain chess pieces move by having me analyze the shapes of the pieces themselves. The rook, a castle made of horizontal and vertical lines, moves horizontally and vertically. The bishop, which has slanted lines, moves diagonally. I was never much good at the game, but I…Read more...

I’m very good at wanting to buy things. I want to buy a new sound system, for example. This would mean ripping five speakers out of my walls, patching up the holes, and buying a $700 soundbar. My wife points out that the current system works well, and asked me why I want to replace it. And I had to admit why: I have…Read more...

I’ve always been a fan of pre-travel planning, to the point that I build a packing grid before every trip. The packing grid includes outfit components for every day of travel (based on predicted weather and activity), as well as a list of essentials that I don’t want to leave behind: Advil, Band-Aids, my Fitbit…Read more...

Mac: Sometimes, an app doesn’t have to do a lot to be incredibly useful. And that’s exactly why I like Simple Recorder. As its name implies, it allows you to turn your Mac into a miniature sound-recording machine, whether you’re looking to capture the noise blasting out of your speakers or the sounds of wherever it is…Read more...

Artificial intelligence isn’t just for scary algorithms poised to take over our lives—it can also be a fun thing to play with, as we learned when we trained a computer to generate Lifehacker headlines. But you can’t play until you have some good data sets to start with.

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Food is the average American household’s largest expenditure after housing and transportation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But unlike the top two expenses, there are a lot of ways to manage your grocery budget month to month to cut back on extraneous costs.

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What is it you’ll regret most about your life when your time is up? Failure to fulfill your duty and obligations? Or the failure to follow your dreams? New research from Cornell University suggests our biggest regrets have nothing to do with our responsibilities in life.

A couple months ago, Google announced that it would be suspending development of yet another messaging app to focus on Android Messages and to help carriers adopt Chat, a new messaging protocol based on RCS that should make texting a whole lot better.

In this episode, we’re talking with Angela Garbes, the author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy.Read more...

It’s not a good time for Airbnb hosts or renters in Japan right now: The private residence renting service was recently forced to cancel thousands of already booked and paid reservations in Japan, all thanks to a new set of Japanese laws that went into effect on June 15. Here’s what’s going on over there, and what…Read more...

Plant life comes at you fast; before you know it that little sprout is a full grown monster plant, desperate for a bigger pot. If you’re a green thumb type who’s fascinated by your plant’s progress, here is the perfect way to document every tender unfurling.Read more...

If you’ve got a cut on the tip of your finger, don’t despair when your bathroom first aid box only contains regular, straight Band-Aids instead of those specialized fingertip bandages. You can make one with just two snips of your scissors. Here’s how:

Have you ever encountered a bolt that doesn’t quite fit your wrench? Of course you have. No matter how much pressure there is to conform, hardware bucks expectations. Here’s what to do when you don’t want to buy yet another special piece of equipment just to dismantle a bookshelf.Read more...

The Trump administration is separating children from their parents through two new policies, keeping children in cages, and lying about all of it. This may seem like a massive problem that you can’t help to solve. But you can, with your time, money, skills, or just a phone call.

Pringles—those stackable chips made from a slurry of wheat, rice, corn, and potato flakes—can be a hassle to get out of the can. Maybe not at first, but let’s face it: once you start eating them, no matter how gross you may feel, you’re going to keep eating them until you get to the bottom of the container. That…Read more...