Google Maps is celebrating April Fool’s Day this year with a limited-edition version of the classic arcade game Snake. The easter egg will be available starting today through the end of the week. With it, you’ll be able to play Snake on your desktop as well as with Google Maps’ smartphone app in a number of iconic…
The 2019 NCAA men’s tournament continues on Sunday. On Sunday, Texas Tech and Virginia won their spots in the Final Four, and today Auburn will take on Kentucky and Duke will take on Michigan State to determine the same.
A huge storage sale for World Backup Day, Mr. Beams spotlights, and the best price ever on Michelle Obama’s Becoming lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.
Happy World Backup Day! To celebrate this rare, actually-useful fake holiday, Amazon’s running a huge one-day sale on everything from microSD cards to SSDs to hard drives to NAS enclosures. Unlike most storage sales, this one includes deals from multiple brands, and all the big names like Samsung, Synology, SanDisk,…
Belkin and Linksys make some of the best charging and networking gear on the market, and Amazon’s discounting a grab bag of great stuff in today’s Amazon Gold Box.
Without fail, the first link in my Google Search results is never the thing I’m actually looking for. As a result, my typical move is to open all of the search results that look like they might potentially be a decent fit into their own tabs on my browser and then go through them one by one. Depending on what I was…
We all know that spending the entire day staring at a computer screen is bad news for our eyes, but how many of us actually do something with that knowledge?
If you’re an Amazon Prime user, you got another perk this week: a free subscription to Nintendo Switch Online for the next 12 months.
At the office, we often have “pie person vs. cake person” debates, but truth be told, I am neither of those things. I am a cheesecake person. It is absolutely my favorite dessert (also, my favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavor, in the form of Strawberry Cheesecake). There’s something about the tangy sweetness of sugar-infused…
A one-day flash storage sale, a bunch of discounted tech accessories, and an insanely popular pizza wheel lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.
Apple has finally announced that AirPower, the wireless charging mat that promised to charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch, has officially been canceled. While there probably aren’t any products that rival what Apple promised for the ill-fated AirPower, there are a number of charging pads that can juice up all…
Apple has completely canceled its much-hyped AirPower project. The wireless charging mat would have charged an iPhone, a pair of AirPods and an Apple Watch simultaneously but now it will charge nothing. On Friday, Apple made the embarrassing decision to admit defeat.
Amazon knows it’s almost beach-bod season, so today’s Muscle Tech and Six Star sale features a bunch of products that will help you power up to your goals..
By now, we all know what a danger those old, bulky, ridiculously heavy tube televisions pose to young kids. In recent years, most of us have upgraded to sleeker, lighter flat screen models, which might not seem as lethal were they to topple over on a child.
Some 12,000 years ago, humans chose to domesticate much of the world that surrounds us. This intervention steered our evolution and the evolution of many plants and animals, transitioning our hunter-gatherer society into settled agriculture. Can we domesticate any animal? How does domestication work? And most…
We all have one airport we try to avoid at all costs—mine is LaGuardia. Having lived in New York a decade, I know if I’m flying through LGA, I can count on some kind of travel mishap, whether it be a delay, cancellation, or dry croissant from an Au Bon Pain.
Listen, I know it’s daunting. But you should really get your cables under control. Nobody wants to look at a tangled rat king of HDMI cords, power cables, and the dust bunnies the inevitably attract. There are lots of ways to go about this, but a wall-mounted, paintable cable channel is one of the most professional…
If living in the Pacific Northwest has given me anything, it is an appreciation of the seasons. Though I’ve always claimed to hate the heat and love the cold, living somewhere with a a barely-real winter and only the tiniest bit of snow has taught me that I just don’t like environmental extremes of any kind, and has…
Google announced swipe gesture controls are coming to Gmail iOS starting today, and should be available to all iOS Gmail users soon. Though the update doesn’t add any new commands to Gmail, it makes it much easier to quickly manage your inbox by letting users customize what left or right “swipe” actions do.
If you have a kid, you have a never-ending supply of kid art. There’s a finite amount of wall real estate, so what can you do with all those handprint masterpieces? (Besides toss them into the recycling bin or shove them into a memory box that your child must figure out what to do with when they’re 26 and you’ve…
Today’s Gold Box is discounting a number of Logitech peripherals for work and play. Inside, you’ll find a lot of mechanical keyboards, headphones, a webcam and mice.
When you want to make a good impression in a cover letter or written submission, it’s incredibly frustrating to discover later that you left out a word in the very first sentence. Our brains don’t always catch simple mistakes, so it can’t hurt to enlist a little digital help as well.
Dear Salty: Last week, my family and I were in the mood for fast food fried chicken and decided to pick up a bucket. We got an 8-piece and two sides, and it took forever for the order to arrive. I left in a huff and just wanted to be home.
Movie-theater subscription service Sinemia just announced a new “unlimited” plan for $15/month. You can only see one movie a day, but you can see it at any theater at any time. (There’s no mention of blackout dates; we’ve asked the company for a clarification.) On its own, that sounds like a good deal—see two movies a…
Now that it is officially spring, and we are getting full, uninterrupted days of sun, cooking indoors seems less fun than it did during the chillier times. Calm, low-effort meals that require very little cooking are important during the spring and summer, as warmer days and evenings are meant to be spent out-of-doors,…
A Kindle Voyage, Apple Watches, MuscleTech Gold Box, and an Anker Capsule II pre-order kick off Friday’s best deals.
What’s worse than a middle seat with zero leg room? Discovering that your seat doesn’t recline—and you’re stuck on a cross-country flight, tensely bracing both armrests while seated upright.
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It’s been a year since Google announced AMP support would be coming to its email apps and web clients, and the rollout has finally started. (A handful of other email providers have joined the cause as well.)
Right now, Twitch Prime subscribers can get up to a year of Nintendo Switch Online benefits, including online play, access to classic NES games, and other benefits thanks to Twitch Prime.
On a good vacation, I always catch myself thinking, “Man, it would be nice to live here.” I might be right, but only accidentally—of course living in a city feels nice when you don’t have to do any work. That feeling makes for a letdown when I get back home, and all my normal responsibilities are waiting for me.…
As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing what to do if the dealer’s service department was joy riding your car, selling a used Lambo, and what to do if you bought the wrong…
We’ve been experimenting with resistance bands all month, but to tell you the truth, I haven’t found any new exercises I truly loved. Maybe that’s because most of my bands are the smaller loop type, which are great for a few lower-body exercises and not much else.
Between all that talk of Family Sharing for Apple’s new “Plus” services, and the fact that I finally set up my house’s shared Netflix account on my TV the other day, I think a lot about how to minimize the financial impact of my technological needs. And that always leads to a conversation with my roommates where I…
We ended up with a wide spray of possible winners in this week’s hose nozzle Co-Op, but we need to crank up the pressure today to blast away the pretenders. Check out the six finalists below, then be sure to vote for your pick at the bottom of the post.
I like to think of myself as an anti-helicopter parent, but the first time I took my daughter to the neighborhood playground when she was a year and-a-half, it sounded like I was watching a horror film. “Gasp! Don’t step there! Don’t lean on that! Oh, geez! Gasp! Oh, goodness!” She had only toddled up three steps, and…
I do not leave town without Clif bars. I can’t tell you how many times they’ve filled my belly in a pinch: all my sprints past airport restaurants when my connecting flight was late, the un-catered conferences where I had to choose between attending sessions and standing in line at the food court. The time I realized…
JP is having a crisis of performance vs. practicality. His lease is up soon and he likes a good sport sedan, but needs some hauling capability as a new homeowner. He’s tired of bugging his friends for trucks, but he really doesn’t want to give up something that is fun to drive. What car should he buy?
Twitter announced today that its iOS app has a few expanded options for Dark Mode, if you’d prefer to not go blind by staring at the app’s regular white background all day long. You now have two options to pick from—“Dim” mode, which combines black and darker grays, and “Lights out” mode, which sets your background to…
Steaming on the stove is a gentle heat transfer method that eases your food into its cooked state, making it perfect for vegetables, or proteins that have a tendency to overcook if you’re not careful. If you have an Instant Pot, you might be tempted to treat the “Steam” function just as you would a steamer set up on…
You might have heard a thing or two about some new Apple headphones last week, but they aren’t the only high profile wireless earbuds to get an upgrade recently.
Have an old plate or used lightbulb you’re trying to get rid of? Sadly, the short answer is that glass products that aren’t a jar or bottle aren’t all that easy to recycle. In fact, more often than not, it’s better to throw them in the trash than in your recycling bin, where it will wreak havoc on other recyclables.
There are many delicious dishes boosted with the addition of coffee. From cookies to chilis to barbecue, coffee is a bonafide staple outside of its drinking applications. Since the mid-1600s, coffee has been a custom for Europeans, but for years prior, it was widely consumed in the Middle East and the Turkish Ottoman…
Stock photos tend to lag behind the culture. They fill business photos with just men, or under-represent minorities, or only show people filling outdated cultural roles. It’s an issue we run into a lot at Lifehacker, where we have to illustrate upwards of 15 posts every day on a limited photo budget, and want to…
Figuring out how much is too much—or too little—to pay the babysitter can be tricky business. You want to pay fairly (this person is keeping your kids alive in your absence, after all), but if you start off too high at the beginning of the relationship, there’s really no walking it back.
Mueller can’t save us, but this Mueller vacuum sealer can at least save your food. Clip the $20 coupon to get it for $40, and you’ll find that it pays for itself in only a matter of months as meats, vegetables, and even cookies last for weeks and months instead of mere days in the fridge and freezer.
The impulse behind ecotourism is a good one, in theory—who wouldn’t want to visit a beautiful place, bask in the wonders of nature, and come back home with an enhanced appreciation for delicate ecosystems around the globe (and the dire risks they face from climate change)?
As we stood outside the door to the judges’ room, the sheet music clutched in my eight-year-old daughter’s hands visibly trembled. I’d encouraged her to take on a piano piece that really challenged her, and she’d struggled for months with it. She was extra nervous in the days leading up to the performance, to the…
A few years ago my boyfriend and I took a WOW Airlines flight to Scotland. The flight was inexpensive and included a 17-hour layover in Iceland, where we spent the afternoon at the Blue Lagoon.
Our readers are big fans of the ever reliable Thermapen, but quality comes with a price tag to match. That’s why you should take advantage of this discount on the Thermapen Mk4 model, down from it’s usual price of $99 to $79 in yellow and blue colors. The sale lasts for a limited time, so don’t get burnt by waiting to…
The goose: friend or foe? This depends mostly on whether or not it’s nesting season. If a goose has something to protect, it will defend itself—and a goose can mess you up.