How to Reduce Your Amazon Packaging Waste

In 2013, analysts at one firm estimated that Amazon shipped 608 million packages in the U.S. alone, meaning the retailer sent over 1.5 million packages each day. This is a convenient and expedient way to do your shopping, sure, but it’s also a drain…

The Biggest Updates from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2019 Event

Let the fall smartphone wars begin. Samsung came out swinging at today’s Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event in New York City. We watched the entire keynote so you don’t have to, and here’s a quick recap of the company’s biggest announcements.Read more...

Is Apple Card Worth It?

Apple’s new credit card, called Apple Card, was announced this spring and isn’t available to everyone just yet—rollout for the card started this week. While a select few (a random drawing of people who signed up for the waiting list) get started usi…

How Disney+ Compares to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime

Now that Disney’s long-awaited streaming service, Disney+, finally has an official launch date (November 12) and more details have been released, it’s clear that this isn’t just a niche supplemental service for Disney fans—the media giant is making …

The Best Web Browsers for Privacy and Security

Your web browser knows a lot about you, and tells the sites you visit a lot about you as well—if you let it. We’ve talked about which browsers are best at ad-blocking, but in this guide, we’re going to focus on the browsers that you’ll want to use t…

These Are the Best Airports in the United States

Anyone that’s done much traveling can tell you the airports you fly to and from (and through) can often make or break your travel experience. I’ve been known to intentionally book slightly longer travel days in order to avoid a connection in a terri…

Make No-Cook Fruit Syrups With Peels, Stems, and Pits

When it comes to fruit, it’s the flesh people want, but that flesh often clings to stems, pits, and peels, and tossing those bits means you’re tossing out flavor. Lucky for us, Queen of Sweets Stella Parks has a solution: Use these supposed scraps t…

Switch Your Google Voice Voicemail Transcript Option to Email Now

If you have a phone, then chances are good you’ve been plagued by at least a few spam calls and texts—probably more than a few. To combat the issue, carriers have started blocking some spam calls and texts by default. Unfortunately, that blocking ha…

How to Identify the Blind Spots in Your Thinking

All of us carry around a number of default assumptions about the world—as well as a number of hopes and beliefs through which we filter our current experiences. Read more...

What Are Red Flag Laws and Do They Help Curb Gun Violence?

Over the weekend, at least 31 people were killed in mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, just days after similar acts of gun violence in Gilroy, California and Brownsville, Brooklyn.Read more...

Watch HBO for Free With Its New 'Recommended by Humans' Tool

Now you don’t need an HBO subscription to watch some of HBO’s most popular programs. Today the network launched a new “Recommended By Humans” tool that will allow anyone to stream over 50 free episodes, movies, and documentaries—provided they were r…

There Is Only One Way to Separate an Egg and This Is It

This inspired a heated debate in the Lifehacker offices.Read more...

Before You Refinance Your Home, Calculate the Potential Costs

Mortgage rates are the lowest they’ve been since 2016. Does that mean it’s time to refinance your home? Well... maybe.Read more...

Microsoft Is Eavesdropping on Your Skype and Cortana Activity

A number of companies are starting to have reservations about using real people to “improve” their digital assistants by reviewing what you’ve said to your smart speaker or phone. I’m willing to bet that Microsoft will also soon about-face on this p…

Read more...

Here's Where You Can Still Find a Pristine Night Sky

There has been a steady parade of meteor showers and shining planets looking to wow us in the nighttime sky this summer, but there’s one thing standing between us and a perfect show: light pollution. It can be hard (even practically impossible) to g…

Apple's Credit Card Won't Sync With Budgeting Apps Like Mint

Apple’s slick new credit card is starting to arrive in a select few digital wallets, but Apple Card has one major limitation that might surprise you: You can’t export your data to financial apps. Apple uses Mint as an example, explaining that export…

Make Fraud Alert Emails From Your Bank Impossible to Miss

It was bound to happen someday: Someone finally counterfeited my new credit card, and I received an alert that they were trying to make a physical purchase at a local gas station. And here’s a quick explanation of why I almost missed this critical n…

Would You Tell Your Kids That College Is Worth the Money?

For many, attending college after high school is a natural next step, one that isn’t questioned for its long-term value. Going to college has been a cultural norm for decades, the widely accepted method for kicking off a white-collar career.Read mor…

Is it Safe to Let a Dog Lick You?

One of the best parts about dogs is how affectionate they can be. It’s almost like they can sense when we’re hurt or feeling down, and then try to help us with extra snuggles or kisses. But while well-intentioned, those kisses—well, licks—may not al…

Add Cottage Cheese to Your Pancake Batter

I am becoming increasingly concerned—alarmed, even—that my favorite food is cottage cheese. It’s an excellent, easy breakfast, makes a wonderful dip when whipped, and—I have just now discovered—is the secret to the fluffiest, sponge-cake-like pancak…