By now we all know that new year “detoxes” and “resets” don’t detox or reset anything. Depending on which you choose, they are either unsustainable diets or pure pseudoscience—often a ...
I can’t figure out who, exactly, Amazon’s Halo Band is designed for. The screen-free band works in the background to track your activity and sleep, and it also has microphones ...
The appeal of “making your own” anything often lies in how customizable the DIY version of that thing is, but ease also plays a role. Homemade peanut butter is, by ...
I have never understood the point of canned, chopped tomatoes. They rarely taste as good as their whole, peeled brethren, and they never break down fully while cooking, keeping their ...
Even if you weren’t a plant person before the pandemic, you may have gotten into having some greenery around your place—so you at least had some living thing to interact ...
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you made one late student loan payment? Not being late every month, or every few months, but just once? Perhaps you envision ...
It appears there’s some confusion about what to do when you’re wearing a mask and you need to sneeze. As Matt Karolian noted on Twitter, a man at the recent ...
It’s time to roll up the shirt-sleeves and dive back into my favorite topic: wireless networking. I realize we beat this drum a lot at Lifehacker, but that’s because wifi ...
Owning a car or other vehicle can be a mixed bag. On the one hand, you have the freedom to go wherever you want, without having to rely on public ...
Interviewing for a new job or a promotion can be unnerving. You’re trying to get to understand the company while simultaneously trying to sell yourself, and you can potentially be ...
The pandemic has been rough on everyone, especially when it comes to maintaining connection with the people we love. Luckily, technology allows us to maintain these connections in all sorts ...
In the days since an unhinged mob of domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, spurred on by the president in their effort to thwart the free exchange ...
After jokes about a coming pandemic baby boom in early March 2020, reality seems to have sunk in: According to The Atlantic, a “baby bust” is much more likely. A ...
When bad things happen to people we care about, it can be hard to feel anything but helpless. But as humans who naturally want to feel like we’re in control ...
I’ve never had trouble waking up in the morning. When the alarm goes off, I’m up and ready to work—but falling asleep was always another matter. If it feels like ...
With the news that Chipotle will now offer cauliflower rice on the menu alongside its traditional brown and white options, you may be wondering how the veggie-based dish stacks up ...
You should be using a password manager, because it’s one of the best things you can do to secure your digital life. With it, you’ll be able to create strong, ...
A friend of mine just had their Facebook account broken into the other day, and the attackers employed an ingenious trick to lock her out forevermore: enabling two-factor authentication and ...
Humidifiers can make breathing and sleeping more comfortable in the winter, giving off a gentle mist that can help with everything from dry sinuses and bloody noses to cracked lips ...
In the early days of the pandemic, my social media feeds were filled with people boasting about all the reading they were getting done during quarantine, which only made me ...
The yoga pose known as downward dog is, I’ve always thought, one of the weirdest moves that’s considered relatively easy ...
This should be common sense at this point, but the fact that they continue to trend on social media suggests ...
When your job involves working on multiple projects—usually simultaneously—it can be easy to forget to update your portfolio. If you’re ...
If your meditation practice has become just one more thing to check off the to-do list—or if you’ve been trying ...
As long as I can remember, my fear of flying always involved absurd “what if?” scenarios. What if the emergency ...
I’ve never had trouble waking up in the morning. When the alarm goes off, I’m up and ready to work—but ...
The pandemic has been rough on everyone, especially when it comes to maintaining connection with the people we love. Luckily, ...
This past week, during a particularly stressful day, I do what I always do when I want to complain to ...
I can’t figure out who, exactly, Amazon’s Halo Band is designed for. The screen-free band works in the background to ...
Exercising outdoors in the winter often means exercising in the dark, whether you’re getting up before dawn or lacing up ...
It sounds ridiculous to suggest, in the age of the camera phone, that you aren’t taking enough pictures of your ...
Even if you weren’t a plant person before the pandemic, you may have gotten into having some greenery around your ...
For today’s classic at-home workout, we’re looking all the way back to 2011, when Lifehacker created its own workout programme ...
With over 350 million players, Fortnite is one of the biggest franchises in gaming, and it owes much of that ...
Though it sounds like some type of superhero—specifically the unlicensed off-brand kind that hangs in Times Square—the “green flash” is ...
Two COVID vaccines are now available in the US, and are currently being administered to healthcare workers and residents of ...
At long last, Congress is set to pass a second COVID relief bill totaling over $900 billion in funding—and it ...
I’ve never been able to keep up a sport or activity without having a driving, maybe obsessive, reason for doing ...