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Starting today, owners of Google’s Pixel and Pixel 2 Android smartphones, as well as some select Nexus and Android One devices, will be able to access Google Lens directly within Google’s Camera app. Here’s a quick look at how to do it.

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’m using my platform to talk about something I believe to be a scourge upon grilling season—homemade, or otherwise fancy, ketchup.

Yesterday we talked about how much to put down on your first house and what, exactly, mortgage discount points are. Today we’re looking at another mortgage question, specifically this one from somedouche:

Even when you’re booking a flight early, sometimes it can be hard for you to get a seat beside your travel companion.

News broke out last week that AMC Theatres would be offering their own movie-watching subscription program to compete with MoviePass and Sinemia. Today, the Stubs A-List service is up and running, offering three AMC movie showings (of any kind) per week for $20 a month.

Google has some buenas noticias for Spanish speakers who own Google Home smart speakers: You can now converse with the Google Assistant en español.

On a recent summer Sunday, I was drinking a Modelo with my friend Meghan at a bar and lamenting that it wasn’t a michelada. I’d tried to order one, but the bartender told me they didn’t have them, and while the cold can of beer was refreshing, I wanted it spiked with spices, hot sauce and lime.

Amazon Echo, Amazon Tap, Amazon Essentials—all obvious Amazon lines you can pick and choose from as you compare them to name brands. But Amazon has a number of new, less publicized generic labels, which you could be buying without even realizing it.

It’s summer, the only season that gets its own “reads,” for some reason. Pick a book for the beach, park, or hoarded table at the air-conditioned Starbucks, with this collection of the 20 summer reading lists from major publications, compiled by Metafilter user Fizz.

It’s summer, the only season that gets its own “reads,” for some reason. Pick a book for the beach, park, or hoarded table at the air-conditioned Starbucks, with this collection of the 20 summer reading lists from major publications, compiled by Metafilter user Fizz.

Good popcorn is great, but most popcorn rarely lives up to its aroma. Fluffy, hot kernels with crunch is the goal, and the key is using way more oil than you think you need.

The New York Times got its hands on a draft of the new postcard-sized standard 1040 form Republicans have long dreamt of, but it’s not exactly the tax code simplification that’s been promised by the likes of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Is it okay to put a boy and a girl in the bathtub together? What should you do if a classmate from your kid’s preschool comes over for a play date and you find the two of them “playing doctor” from the waist down? And what if your child asks to examine your private parts and that makes you feel weird?

Mac: If you’re fancy enough to have a MacBook with a Touch Bar, and you don’t hate that Apple replaced your physical keys with virtual ones (perhaps a blessing, given the former’s quality), you may have already tried customizing it a little bit. Maybe you swapped out a virtual button or two on the Control Strip, or…

Next time you take a passport photo, you might want to consider cracking a smile. Often incorrectly presumed to be a no-no for passport pics, a new study found that smiling in your photo can actually help combat identity fraud.

Good morning, here’s a story about my butthole. Years ago, it was itching constantly, and I couldn’t figure out why. I assumed it was dirty, so when I went to the bathroom, I always made sure to wipe extra hard. Finally a doctor had to tell me to stop that, and give my butthole a break. I did, and I stopped itching. I…

Reddit, crazy as it can be at times, is a great time-waster—no argument there. And while it’s fun to browse /r/videos and /r/aww during occasional bits of downtime (that turn into extended cute-animal breaks), I find the site even more captivating when I can entertain myself and feel like I’m learning something.