Новости за 17.07.2018

I didn’t buy a smartwatch because I thought it might make parenting easier—I bought it because it was cute and shiny and I like new toys. (I owned a Casio calculator watch long before they were popular. Oh, wait: They were never popular.)

It’s been fun to fiddle with—I can change the watch face and check the weather…

When you’re calling an Uber to pick you up from your house, finding your driver isn’t hard (usually). When you’re calling an Uber to pick you up from a more crowded location, things can get way more complicated.

If you use Venmo and haven’t changed your privacy settings from the default, you may want to rethink that—because it’s fairly simple for pretty much anyone to figure out what you’re doing and track your transactions if you haven’t.

There was always a pink blanket in the trunk of the family car when I was growing up. It took up a lot of space but could never be removed, because what if the car broke down in winter? We would all have to huddle under the blanket while we waited for help. Driving without a blanket is just asking for trouble.

Googling for health information is irresistible when you have a question and aren’t sure where to turn. Some topics will lead you to legitimate information, but for others, the real answers to your questions are buried under pages of results for pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.

There are many reasons you might want to back up your Gmail account, such as: It’s good to have a copy of your most-important data; you’re about to be fired from your job and you want to save everything you did; you’d just like a little extra protection in case someone hacks your account and takes it over (or deletes…

If you’re still an active Twitter user, and if you’ve been collecting followers for years until your timeline became an unreadable mess, you might fantasize about burning it all down. “It” meaning both the entire sinful world and your Twitter feed. We can help with the second one. Here are four ways to unfollow…

Reading with your kids is important. We all know this. If you’re like me, you dive into book after book with abandon.

If you’re visiting New York City for the first time and having your first bagel, it’s certainly cause for excitement and wonderment. How did the baker produce this incredible textural mashup of chewy inside and crunchy outside? It might seem ludicrous to scoop this masterpiece out, leaving behind a sad, hollow corpse.…

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. Today I wish to talk about a wonderful summertime treat: the s’more.

After switching from pancakes to burgers (and back again), IHOP is celebrating its 60th anniversary. And that’s why, today, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. nationwide, customers will be able to order 60 cents worth of pancakes.

Summer is a great time to get in shape—you can enjoy the non-freezing weather, the longer days, and depending on your line of work, you might have more free time. But then a vacation happens, and your fitness goals take a back seat for a little while. Here’s how to minimize the damage.

Downloading Netflix right to your device is great—right up to the moment you run out of space and are left manually deleting every episode of Queer Eye to make way for the new season of Nailed It. But with Netflix’s latest feature, Smart Downloads, Netflix will queue up the next episode of your favorite show while…

There are few topics that can evoke such widespread and intense anxiety as penis size. Just about every man—regardless of the actual size of his penis—worries about being too small. Here’s what you need to know about penis size, and what to do if you’re afraid your penis is smaller than “normal.”

You’ve started a new gig, and in the midst or training videos and introductions to new colleagues, HR has shoved paperwork for the company’s retirement plan in your hand. As great as your recruiter was, she just didn’t seem that familiar with the ins-and-outs of your plan’s investment options. So how do you know if…

Ah 3D Touch, Apple’s pressure-sensitive smartphone feature. The artist formerly (creepily?) known as Force Touch surfaces additional options for users with iPhones that support it. Push into the screen’s left edge, for example, to reveal the app switcher. Push into an app’s Home screen icon to reveal shortcuts. Push…

Ah 3D Touch, Apple’s pressure-sensitive smartphone feature. The artist formerly (creepily?) known as Force Touch surfaces additional options for users with iPhones that support it. Push into the screen’s left edge, for example, to reveal the app switcher. Push into an app’s Home screen icon to reveal shortcuts. Push…