Новости за 28.06.2018

Google Maps gets you directions to where you’re going, but now it can also direct on your quest to try all the best tacos in town.

Commercial planes are gradually becoming more and more cramped. About 20 years ago, the average seat pitch—the distance between each seat where your legs are—was around 34 to 35 inches. Now it’s closer to 30 or 31 inches. If you’re planning to fly economy and legroom is important to you, look into these airlines and…

Exactis, a small, Florida-based marketing firm, may have exposed personal data of some 340 million people and businesses in the U.S.

Buenos Aires stays up late. That’s one takeaway from the tips our readers gave on the Argentine capital, whose name is also a brag. You can see the best comments under the Staff section on the earlier post. Below are some highlights.

If you’re carting laundry, groceries, or other heavy stuff up to your apartment, this $20 cart will make it about 1000x times easier. It has specialized back wheels that can climb stairs and curbs, so you’ll do less lifting. This typically goes for $30, so this a no-brainer for any city dwellers.

As of the solstice last week—and the heat wave due to hit much of the U.S. next week—summer is officially upon us. And with it comes a whole mess of itchy, sweaty, possibly smelly problems.

So, you need some help. It’s okay, we all need a hand sometimes. Problem is, a lot of us don’t know how to go about asking—so we don’t. Well, according to a social psychologist, here’s the simplest, most effective way to ask for a favor.

If you cook corn in its husks, which you should, shucking it is not a huge issue, as everything kind of slides right off. But, if you need to get to those juicy kernels while they’re still raw—perhaps to pickle them, or sprinkle them on a salad—removing the little strands of silk can be a bit frustrating.

In January Amazon added voice controls to its Android app, and this week it finally did the same for iPhone owners.

You want to be more present for your children, to engage with them from a place of intention and connection rather than distraction and knee-jerk reactions. But more often than you’d like to admit, you’re bored or preoccupied, sneaking glances at your phone, reviewing your list of everything you need to get done, or…

Chrome, Firefox: It’s been a rough week for many of us, and it’s likely you’re a little stressed out right now.

When you’re saving up to buy your first house, you’re likely accounting for mortgage costs and monthly payments, adding in insurance and maybe even a realtor’s fee. But there are a ton of other costs you might not know about.

Emojis are part of our general vocabulary these days, but they’re not as easy to get to on your desktop like they are on your phone. That said, you can bring them there, thanks to a feature in Canary, Google’s developmental version of Chrome.

Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and a guide to using its waters to reflect on and improve your life.