A new phishing scam is duping unsuspecting victims with enticing links promising access to President Trump’s alleged health records and top-secret COVID-19 treatment information. In reality, these misleading links are triggering downloads that sneak…
Lees meerNow that working remotely has become the norm rather than the exception for many people previously based in an office, new questions about the arrangement have been popping up. Are your hours more flexible? How and when does your boss expect you to …
Lees meerYou see The New York Times’ “election needle,” and you get anxiety. You read FiveThirtyEight, and you wonder how your candidate can lose after being up by some seemingly impressive number of “points” or polls prior to an election.Read more...
Lees meerFifty-three percent of millennials have looked into saving money on their car insurance since the pandemic started, according to a recent survey by the insurer Clearcover. That makes sense—people are struggling financially, and with fewer drivers on…
Lees meerA new tab-management feature is on its way to Chrome. You’ll need Chrome Canary to try out this new “tab scrolling” feature, but it’s worth the separate installation. Read more...
Lees meerThere’s something about Halloween that can make a good TV show great. Maybe it’s the over-the-top on-set decorations—the kind we’d set up at home if only we had the energy (but, hey, a pumpkin on the front stoop works, too). Or maybe it’s all those …
Lees meerAMD officially announced its brand-new Zen 3 Ryzen CPUs today, and gave graphics-starved gamers a little taste of what they can expect from the release of Big Navi later this month. We’ve extracted as many details as possible from AMD’s event. Here’…
Lees meerPBS Kids and Sesame Street are continuing to provide opportunities for parents to speak with their kids about race and racism. Over the next week, two specials—PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism and The Power of We: A Sesame Street Special—will pr…
Lees meerThe President stated that he’s “not contagious at all” after spending time in the hospital due to a case of COVID-19, and would like to appear at an in-person debate next week. (The debate commission has said the debate will be remote.) Could he be …
Lees meerIf you’ve listened to National Public Radio at all over the years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard Guy Raz’s voice. Formerly the host of All Things Considered, he made the jump into podcasts nearly a decade ago, hosting shows like the TED Radio H…
Lees meerLike Jaqen H’ghar, the Apple Watch has many faces. And while it’s easy to manually swipe through all the different options, there’s no need to do so: If you enjoy using different faces for different activities, such working, working out, and working…
Lees meerAn infrared forehead thermometer and Amazon’s Echo Auto lead Thursday’s best deals.Read more...
Lees meerTackling electrical projects around the house can sound daunting if you’ve never tackled one before. But just because the job involves some wires, that doesn’t mean you need to call in the pros. Here are eight common electrical repairs and replaceme…
Lees meerFeatured Deal: Amazon Music Unlimited (4 Months) | $1 (Prime Exclusive)Read more...
Lees meerDays after Regal announced the indefinite closures of their movie theaters in the U.S., we now know what will happen to their Unlimited subscription program, launched last July. The good news is that if you’re a subscriber, you won’t be paying for m…
Lees meerLast I checked, I have very good credit, but that fact has little to do with fiscal responsibility and a lot to do with automatic online bill pay. Every time I wind up with a bill I can’t set and forget—like the rent at my last apartment—I fail to …
Lees meerA Cyberpunk 2077 pre-order and The Mandalorian Monopoly lead Wednesday’s best deals.Read more...
Lees meerThere’s a reason why parents have, in recent years, started insisting that kids wear helmets while riding bikes or scooters, and why many have become more hesitant before signing them up for Pee Wee football. We’ve learned a lot about concussions in…
Lees meerEvery time you take a photo with a digital camera or smartphone, your device adds extra information to the image file—metadata about the image that’s stored within the image itself. This EXIF data, as it’s known, is short for “Exchangeable Image Fil…
Lees meerSomehow, it has only been a week and a day since the first presidential debate of the 2020 election season. If you watched it, you may even still be recovering from the chaos. Well, it’s time to regroup, because the first and only vice presidential …
Lees meerWith the exception of my weekly Bake Off viewing, I don’t spend my free time watching very much food content, and I usually avoid any sort of celebrity cooking video. Having a lot of money is the ultimate hack, so—unless they’re the Barefoot Contess…
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