Новости за 17.04.2018

For many first-time freelancers (and some seasoned vets), quarterly taxes are a nightmare. Either you don’t know you have to pay them and you’re caught off guard, or you withhold too little.

Amazon updated its mobile apps Tuesday to make it easier to shop when you’re in another country.

Android: Smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive, and for a lot of people (myself included), it can hard to resist the pull of a Twitter notification or new photos on Instagram. There are plenty of services to help you spend less time staring at your phone, but one free Android app takes a particularly…

You open what looks like a bill, but it’s just junk mail. You click through a donation process too fast, and they turn your one-time donation into a monthly contribution. A snack’s packaging makes it look bigger; an opinion poll is obviously one-sided; when you copy-paste a line from an article, the site adds a “read…

Disclaimer: This isn’t so much a “tiny hack”—a tag we at Lifehacker use for simple tricks—so much as a “tiny pleasure.” It’s something that I do every day that makes me happy. It doesn’t improve anything except the flavor of my mornings, and everyone should give it a shot. (That’s an espresso pun right there.)

Venmo makes it easy to split the bill with friends, and Grubhub makes it easy to order dinner from your phone. Combining those two services into a single experience seems like a no-brainer, but it hasn’t been an option—until now.

One of the complications of saving for retirement via investment vehicles like a 401(k) is that it takes so long to reach a point where it seems like the market is actually working for you.

Now that TaskRabbit is offline as a result of some kind of hacking issue, you won’t be able to use the service to summon someone to help you out with an everyday task. But that’s a small annoyance compared to the looming elephant in the room: Your account details might have been compromised.

It’s better to give then to receive. So, why do we still expect to receive something after giving?

Budget airlines are a decent option for cheap travel, but they’re also known to be uncomfortable, they nickel and dime you for every little thing, and now, people are questioning the overall safety of these low-cost flights. These four tips will help you pick a budget or foreign airline that meets all the right safety…

Everyone has their own small tricks for reading more books (or at least, pretending you read books), and more generally, working our way through a never-ending backlog of podcast episodes, old New Yorker issues, Spotify playlists, and other assorted content.

Hello, and welcome back to What’s Cooking?, the open thread where you get to share your brilliant thoughts, advice, recipes, and opinions on all things food-related. This week I want to talk about the most divisive dish in all of the land: the pizza.

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If you are a parent and have been suddenly thrust into the world of kids’ music, I am sorry. Most of the stuff out there is mind-numbingly bad. Nobody wants to hear Alvin & the Chipmunks singing “Hot body, rock the party,” or another rendition of “Finger Family,” or a tune about a kid who brought home a baby bumblebee…

Drives fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive when you’re in the middle of working on something important—my namesake’s law—can be a real pain in the ass. Thankfully, replacing your old-and-busted drive with a brand-new drive is one of the easiest upgrades you can make.

Tile is the ultimate device for anyone who can’t stop losing their things, and you can get four Tiles (in two different designs) for $46 today, an all-time low.

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Last week, the United States and its allies France and the UK fired 105 missiles—most of them Tomahawks—at Syrian targets in an attempt to prevent future chemical attacks in the Syrian Civil War. But what are the alleged chemical weapons being used? And what exactly do they do to people? Here’s what you need to know.