Новости за 16.08.2018

Just this month, Amazon and Microsoft forced their voice assistants to start talking to each other, and you can now use Cortana to access Alexa, and vice versa, if you’re in the U.S. The newfound friendship opens the door for much simpler organization and management, as you won’t have to jump back and forth between…

The subject of file backups and online storage came up the other day at a Lifehacker staff meeting, and resident door-holder Nick Douglas chimed in that his solution for backing up his laptop was easy: He never keeps any important files on it. Everything—and he means everything—lives in the cloud.

Your 20s are behind you and now you’ve got a spouse, kids and maybe even a home to show for it. Ideally, you’ve saved a bit for retirement, you have a debt repayment plan that works for you and you’ve been ramping up your savings over the years to accomplish your financial goals. You’re comfortable, or getting there…

There’s a problem in the city. A dump truck has dropped her bin full of bowling balls all over the street without realizing it—the balls that were supposed to be delivered to the bowling alley. Stinky, a garbage truck, and Dirty, a backhoe loader, see it happen and decide they will get the balls to the destination…

If you’ve stumbled across an image on the internet—perhaps on your favorite social media site—and you want to know more about it, you can always ask the person responsible for the post. Odds are good that they probably just cribbed the image from somewhere else, and don’t know any more about where it came from. But…

Noodles don’t need a lot of stove time to taste good, which is why they’re a no-fail summer standby. As much as I love cold peanut noodles, sometimes I crave a bowl of silky-sauced pasta laden with vegetables and cheese—without spending an hour simmering that sauce.

There are some things that will never be replaced by an app, and a sturdy, hand-cranked can opener is one of them. Unfortunately, we’re all too busy learning to code or whatever to practice our domestic skills, and no one knows how to use them.

An extensive, important study has confirmed something women have known—and have been shouting about—for some time: the pockets on our jeans are bullshit. Though concrete, empirical data doesn’t change the reality of the sexist pocket gap that exists in fashion today, we have to start somewhere, and I can’t help but…

If you can’t psych yourself up to save for retirement—there are too many other things to worry about, you say, and I’m never going to retire anyway—instead think of saving as giving yourself freedom.

As MoviePass continues to struggle, starting today, existing Sinemia customers can get a bit of an incentive for convincing their friends to jump ship and join Sinemia instead. A new program from the company gives users a $10 credit for each friend they convince to cancel their MoviePass subscription (or other movie…

As MoviePass continues to struggle, starting today, existing Sinemia customers can get a bit of an incentive for convincing their friends to jump ship and join Sinemia instead. A new program from the company gives users a $10 credit for each friend they convince to cancel their MoviePass subscription (or other movie…

The Nod, the popular Gimlet Media podcast about black life and culture hosted by Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings, is back from summer vacation after completing its first year. Luse and Eddings have been podcasting for a lot longer than that, working on other Gimlet shows and making their independent podcast For Colored…

Verizon has announced that customers on any of its three unlimited data plans are getting 6 months of free Apple Music. And if you already subscribe to Apple’s streaming music service, don’t worry, you’re included too.

If you’ve upgraded to Android Pie, you’ve likely found a host of new features on your device, as well as some new visual changes. One of the coolest changes is the ability to change the look, color, and layout, of the quick settings and notification display menu.