It wasn't that I didn't like the fluffy corn I had popped in clarified butter. I just found it slightly disappointing (at least until I added salt, but more on that in a bit). "It's because you drown...
The first rule of home ownership is that you are perpetually unprepared for just how expensive it is. Even after years of dealing with the slow-motion collapse of your most valuable asset, you can sti...
A popular fertility tracking app shared users' sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges.The FTC's investigation...
You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retro...
[photo1]A young man was killed last week because he was acting erratically on a New York City subway.With the ensuing protests, potential criminal investigation, and information coming to light that N...
Synthetic speech can be a fearful object these days when paired with deepfakes and other AI deceptions, but it's also an indispensable tool for anyone who can no longer speak on their own. Acapela Gro...
Eric RavenscraftI just started using an app called Tody to manage my household chores. It's neat because it gives you a little bar chart to see how long it's been since you completed various...
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has partnered with layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, the companies exclusively told TechCrunch ahead of an announcement at...
A major piece of the smart home market now supports the Matter standard. The 2020 Nest Thermostat is the first smart thermostat to join in the slow-going wave and, in doing so, now works in an Apple H...
Many West Coasters know that citrus season is one of abundant fruit, and while people from other regions may or may not have this wonderful problem, they can get good deals even now as the season come...
Easter eggs are safe to eat, provided you follow a few safety rules (and don't try to eat the plastic kind). If they weren't, my mother would be dead: When my sisters and I were gorging ourselves on b...
The hopeful, heroic people you see above are the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will ...
The recent push toward social media platforms that embrace authenticity over curation is a good thing. Instagram might be the home of perfectly edited photos with expertly-crafted captions, but BeReal...
Google is bringing Android's "Nearby Share" feature to the desktop with a new Windows app. Google says the new program will make sharing between Windows and Android easier, letting you send files over...
I love tension rods. No, really. I rent my apartment, so I'm always weary of doing anything too invasive or permanent to it, so screwing rods into the wall to hold up my curtains is out of the questio...
One thing I do not like about myself is my tendency to get intensely into something, only to abandon it with little to no warning. If you've been reading Lifehacker for any appreciable amount of time,...
I love when food trends give tired products new life, like making a Pop-Tart ice cream sandwich, or curing your gummy candy. Wrapping ice cream in Fruit Roll-Ups is the TikTok trend that's currently r...
Sony's new PlayStation VR2 is a solid headset with a relatively small launch catalog, and one of its most exciting titles is a VR mode for Resident Evil Village, Capcom's first-person 2021 survival ho...
[photo1]Making really good meatballs isn't exactly rocket surgery. As long as you season them aggressively and use a light touch while mixing, you'll be good to go. But I recently discovered an easy w...
(Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times)I'm a big fan of Kim Kardashian's quest to become a lawyer -- via the apprentice route (not having an undergraduate degree makes a traditional ...