Новости за 15.08.2018

If you’re renting, you may not be able to install a traditional wired security system—and if you live in a small space, you probably won’t need to. Instead, consider building your own security system piecemeal with an Amazon Echo device as the brains of the operation. Amazon’s Alexa integrates with literally thousands…

So, you’re on your own in the Real World, with the full time job and 401(k) to match. You’ve built a decent credit score for yourself, you’re keeping an eye on your student loans and you want to know what else you can do to maximize your finances.

If you had to guess what the best era of a life would be, you might say being young and without responsibilities or old with a retirement fund. It turns out that for a lot of people, the best part of their life is the slog of middle-age.

It’s not hard. It feels hard! When you walk through a door right before someone else, you need to hold that door open for them, or else you’re rude. But if they’re a little too far behind you, they have to hurry to catch up, and then (as redditor Voldetitty recently pointed out) you’re actually being annoying. At some…

Cocktail syrup is very easy—some would say “simple”—to make. Dump some sugar in some water, heat it until it dissolves, let it cool. If you want a flavor other than “sweet,” you can boil some sort of plant part in the water to impart something special. However, in the case of ginger syrup, this route can give you a…

Google launched its new “Google One” cloud storage plans back in May and started rolling its paid storage customers over to the new service. Today, Google is opening up Google One for new customers. Here’s what you get and how Google’s new cloud storage offerings stack up against the competition.

We’re watching MoviePass die in real-time. In the last week, the movie-ticketing subscription service started actively nailing its own coffin shut by reversing users’ cancellations and limiting which movies you can see, in addition to the number of viewings.

Well-seasoned water is the foundation of every delicious pasta dish. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a pasta recipe that doesn’t instruct you to salt the cooking water, but beyond vaguely invoking the sea, few of them bother to tell you how much salt is enough.

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag ... And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person,” debuted in 2011. Here on Offspring, we’ve launched a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting…

Capital One has updated the rewards on its Savor card, and the new offerings will be enticing to people who eat out often or spend a lot at the grocery store (and considering food is the average American’s third biggest expense, that’s a lot of us).

Certain moods need soundtracks. When you’re sad, or excited, or making out, a certain kind of music can elevate the experience and lend a grandiose, cinematic quality to your life. If you have particular music tastes, playing one of Spotify’s prefab playlists doesn’t scratch that itch. You want a custom playlist,…

Does it seem like your cat is ignoring you? Do they not come when called? Your cat might be a jerk. Or they might just not recognize their own name.

If you’re a Pixel XL user and have been stalling on updating your phone to Android Pie, you may want to hold off entirely.

People generally tend to pick one mapping app for their phones and stick with it, but there are times you might need to pull up another app on your iPhone—perhaps you need to CarPlay your directions instead of having the Google Assistant shout them out.