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How to Buy a Puppy Without Getting Scammed
Image from cmartin82.Let’s talk about buying pets online. It’s not a terrible idea, if you can avoid the flood of online scammers waiting to take your money without handing over a puppy. If you’re...
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How to Make a Freaking Pan Sauce
Photos by Claire LowerWhen I first started cooking for myself and others, I considered a steak dinner to be the epitome of sophisticated adult-ness, especially when served with an aggressively tannic...
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Change Your Passwords: 560 Million Email Credentials Have Been Leaked
Image from Adikos You know by now that you should be changing your passwords regularly— every day there seems to be another cyber security crisis. If you haven’t changed your passwords recently, it’s...
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Your Reclining Airplane Seat Vs. The Lap Behind You: Who Owns the Air Rights?
Photo by Ben SalterIt’s annoying as hell when you have your tray table down, trying to work or eat, and the person in front of you reclines, narrowing the already tiny gap between your knees and their...
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I Bought a Pair of Overalls and Now I Will Never Wear Anything Else
Real cool, stylish photo by Claire Lower.My “look”—if I even possess such a thing—is best described as equal parts “teenage dirtbag” and “someone who is allergic to pants.” My wardrobe is comprised of...
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Cut the Cord With Best-Ever Deals on Anker's New Qi Charging Pads
Anker PowerTouch 5, $8 | Anker PowerTouch 10, $13If your phone supports Qi wireless charging, it’s a great day to buy some new pads to scatter around your home and office, as Anker’s 5W and 10W...
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Everything New About Android From Google I/O
Today at the annual Google I/O developer conference, we learned about all the updates coming to the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, dubbed Android O for now—at least until its...
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What I Learned from Weighing Myself 15 Times in a Day
Illustration by Elena Scotti/Lifehacker/GMG, photos via Getty ImagesThe scale is fickle: we lose weight when we pee or when we do a sweaty workout. We gain weight when we eat or drink or put on a...
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Language App Duolingo Finally Added Japanese and It's Great
Duolingo is one of the best free ways to get started learning a new language, and they’re finally answering the pleas of wannabe polyglots everywhere by adding Japanese to their curriculum....
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The MP3 Is Dead—Long Live the MP3 (Maybe)
Image from Philippe Put When the MP3 first came out in the 1990s, it was a revolutionary digital audio coding format that significantly reduced the file size of audio content. It dropped sizes by 95...
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How Do You Stay Creative When the World Is on Fire?
This is fine. Image by i-v-a-n-k-o.It’s a little hard to focus these days. More crazy shit happened last night than we would expect in a week (month?) of, say, 2015. If you’ve got a creative job or...
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Finally, Some Good News for Grads: Starting Salaries Are on the Rise
Photo by Maura24Headlines say the job market is improving, but it’s more likely that it’s just changing—the gig economy has saved workers from unemployment, but it’s also kept a lot of them from...
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The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero
Juicero began in secret. The startup, a sort of Keurig for cold-pressed plant-water—which made headlines for the $120 million in venture capital it secured from the likes of Google and Kleiner-Perkins...
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"Lettuce Jam" Is the Perfect Use for That Last Sad Bit of Greenery
Photos by Claire LowerI hate to sound melodramatic, but lettuce and I are enemies. It’s not that I don’t like eating salad—I do—it’s that I never eat salad fast enough before my lettuce gets “weird,”...
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Clue, The Period App, Will Now Track Your Birth Control Pills
Clue, one of the best period tracking apps out there, just added a new feature: you can now keep track of whether you’ve taken your birth control pills, and Clue will tell you what to do if you missed...
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What "Classified Information" Means, and What Happens If You Divulge It
Photo by Michelangelo Carrieri.The media is ablaze over President Trump sharing classified information with Russian foreign officials—but what is classified information exactly? And what happens if you...
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Colleges Are Using Price Discrimination—Here's How to Fight It
Image from Mike WillisYou want to go to Tokyo, so you hit up Google Flights and do some research. Tickets are around $800, but you close your browser window and decide to look again later. A couple of...
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Stuff Your Closet With Under Armour Gear During Amazon's One-Day Sale
Under Armour Gold BoxAmazon’s running a new fitness-focused Gold Box to get you ready for going outside, this time with a solid selection of Under Armour apparel for men, women, and kids all marked...
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8 Reasons You Should Care a Lot About the 2020 Census
Illustration by Angelica Alzona.Do you care about the 2020 census? You should. We all probably should care more about the 2020 census, because John Thompson, the director of the Census Bureau and the...
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Get Ready for $1,000 IUDs and $1,600 Colonoscopies Under Trumpcare
Cost of a Mirena IUD (other brands are similarly priced). Data from health insurance claims collected by Amino.We’ve been living high on the hog these last few years: getting mammograms and...
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Save $10 On Anker's Newest Wireless SoundBuds
Anker SoundBuds Tag, $26Anker’s original SoundBuds are your favorite affordable wireless earbuds, but the new SoundBuds Tag just got their biggest discount ever. $26 is $10 less than usual, and beats...
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How to Make a Graduation Cap Fit on Kinky or Curly Hair
Image from Chizi Duru’s tutorial If a graduation cap won’t fit over your hair, maybe it’s the cap that needs a little styling. Natural hair vlogger Chizi Duru shows us how. Forget bobby pins—all you...
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Will It Sous Vide? A Boozy Chocolate-Cherry Sundae
Photos by Claire LowerWelcome to this week’s edition of Will It Sous Vide?, the weekly column where I usually make whatever you want me to with my immersion circulator.You may have noticed that I have...
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Today's Best Deals: Under Armour Apparel, Kamado Grill, SoundBuds, and More
Anker’s newest SoundBuds, a Big Green Egg alternative, and a huge Under Armour apparel sale lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss...
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Automate An Outlet With TP-Link's Alexa-Compatible Smart Plug, Now Just $21
TP-Link Smart Plug, $21. Discount shown at checkout. Like the idea of a Belkin WeMo Switch, but not willing to spend $40-$50 to try one out? This TP-Link alternative has a nearly identical feature set...
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