Новости за 08.05.2018

Feeling lucky? The first of two batches of tickets for Blizzard’s big BlizzCon gaming convention go on sale this week (Wednesday, May 9 and Saturday, May 12). If you want to attend in person and see the Level ?? Mike Morhaime up close, you’ll be facing off against a Zerg rush of eager gamers who are also looking to…

Last week, Twitter revealed that it had accidentally stored some user passwords in plain text, and thus suggested that all users change their Twitter password. It was bad. But honestly not that bad, according to Tristan Bolton, founder of enterprise cloud provider BoltonSmith. We talked to him about how it might have…

Giving homemade liqueurs as gifts is a favorite party trick of mine. They’re fun to customize, inexpensive to make, and—if you have a whipping siphon—very easy to throw together at the last minute.

You’ll really be conserving storage space with this foldable digital kitchen scale. It unfolds into a tripod to hold a plate or bowl, displaying weight in pounds, grams, ounces, and milliliters, and then folds back up to a size small enough to fit in your utensil drawer. $19 is the best price we’ve seen in about 6…

Life throws a lot of unpleasant experiences our way—like deaths in the family, nasty breakups, or agonizing injuries—but a good friend can always help us pull through. This trick will remind you to be a good friend long after the initial shock of a traumatic event has faded away.

When debt collectors come calling, they may try any number of tactics to get you to pay your debt. Some are perfectly legal, while others fall into a gray area or outright harassment. Here’s what you need to know.

Little kids are notoriously difficult to dress. Any parent who’s experienced a closet standoff with a naked child six minutes before they’re supposed to be at the bus stop can confirm. It could be that the kid is extremely picky or acting out of defiance, but what if it’s more than that? What if the issue is seriously…

Tiny bottles of shampoo, soap, and lotion are slowly disappearing from hotel rooms. And not in the normal way, where you scoop them all into your bag and collect them in your medicine cabinet. Hotel chains are replacing the bottles with wall-mounted dispensers in the bathroom. Marriott, says the Wall Street Journal, …

Hack your notification badges. Go greyscale. Announce the reason you are about to look at your phone. There are endless tactics available these days to help you reduce the amount of time you spend on your phone.

Lightning bolts suck. Thankfully, the painstaking work of software engineer Stephen Cook doesn’t include any of these (cheater) tricks. In his simplified version of Mario Kart, which you can play right in your browser, you just have to worry about easy driving, not item management.

Lightning bolts suck. Thankfully, the painstaking work of software engineer Stephen Cook doesn’t include any of these (cheater) tricks. In his simplified version of Mario Kart, which you can play right in your browser, you just have to worry about easy driving, not item management.

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 weekend is Mom Day, and I want to hear what you are cooking for the maternal figures in your life.

Student loan repayment options pushed by colleges could be doubling or even tripling the amount borrowers owe, according to a report from CNBC.

I don’t rave about too many appliances, but I absolutely love my Crock-Pot. I honestly used to be a little afraid of it, This Is Us-style, until a considerable number of fire-incident-free uses convinced me that I had nothing to lose and everything to gain by embracing Crock-Pot life. This especially came in handy…

Mac: As much as we’d love it, Clipy is not a macOS version of Clippy, that little animated Windows paperclip that asks you how you’re doing and gives you useful life advice. It’s a must-have utility that makes your macOS clipboard ten times more powerful, if there was any way to measure that sort of thing.

“What are some cool websites where you can download free stuff?” asked redditor howtoadvanced. He got over 5,000 answers. We’ve gone through and categorized the best ones, identifying each resource. You could spend the rest of your life just entertaining and educating yourself with the free books, music, games, apps,…

Every year, around 1,200 tornadoes hit the United States, destroying everything in their path. They can form almost anywhere, in any season, and bring with them 300 mph winds and funnels that can be more than a mile wide. This is what you need to know to survive one of Mother Nature’s most brutal offspring.