Новости за 20.08.2018

If you’re old enough, you may remember carrying maps in your car and telling family the phone number of the place you’re going. But who does that these days, when you just have your phone on you at all times? Well, if you’re heading out for a hiking or camping trip, you may need to resurrect some old-school habits.

You’ve been meaning to respond to someone for a while now. Actually, it’s past the acceptable amount of time to answer, so you let it go. And go. It’s eventually been so long you assume you will never be able to make contact with this person again—until you need something.

When you’re in college, you might feel like every choice will define the rest of your life. Or you might revel in your freedom by partying and playing video games and scheduling 11 a.m. classes so you can sleep in. You might do all of this at once! So for the benefit of everyone going off (or back) to college, we…

Whether or not you’re interested in the services of a dominatrix, you have to acknowledge that it takes a lot of skill to control another person. Even if they’re asking for it.

Your student loans might be the last thing on your mind when you have your classes, rushing a sorority and that guy down the hall to figure out, but there are a handful of things you should do now that will put you ahead of the curve come graduation.

On September 22nd, museums across the country will offer free admission as part of the Smithsonian’s annual museum day. While admission is free, in order to get in you’re still going to need a ticket, and those tickets are going to be in a somewhat limited supply.

As a kid, Mallika Chopra’s father, Deepak Chopra, would ask her to explore four questions: Who am I? What do I want? How can I serve? What am I grateful for? Now as an entrepreneur, public speaker and the author of the new children’s meditation guide Just Breathe, Mallika uses those questions to help others know…

Ever since the European Union introduced their GDPR privacy laws earlier this year, websites have been required to be more direct about the online data they collect from visitors.

How can you save for retirement when your job doesn’t offer a 401(k)? That’s what we’re discussing this week.

When I was in school, I didn’t think of restaurant food in terms of single meals. I always tried to order dishes I could stretch into future meals because, like most college students, I was a little poor. The ability of any given dish to be a future meal has a lot of factors.

The best part of back-to-school time isn’t the part where you suddenly have homework and a huge social calendar to deal with; it’s the student discounts. Getting free or discounted hardware and software that normally costs a lot of money feels great, and is something you should definitely exploit (using your college…

If you already have Android 9 Pie, the alias of Google’s latest mobile operating system, you’re in for a treat—and not just because Google names its software after desserts. There are dozens of new features to dive into and learn, including some that can only be unearthed by unlocking the developer options.

The feeling I associate most with my early college days is exhaustion. I wrote all my papers at night; I fought sleep every time a lecture got a bit dull. You can’t live for years on a sleep deficit, though, so here’s what I should have known from the start.

Read our interview with Andrea Nguyen, author of James Beard Award-winning The Pho Cookbook, and after your brain is primed for a steamy bowl of beef pho, learn how to make a quick and non-fussy version here.

This week Hack Your City goes to Bangkok, sprawling and glittering capital of Thailand. Its local name is Krung Thep, “City of Angels,” short for a much longer name that includes “the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems.” Amazing. Bangkok livers and lovers, please tell us, what are your precious…

Don’t know how to plunge a toilet? Still taping Scarface posters to your wall? Not sure whether that shirt really needs to be washed or if it can last another few days? We’ve been there, and we’re here for you. This is Lifehacker’s Summer of Adulting series, where we’ll guide you through some real-world basics to…

A moody teen love story with a supernatural twist featuring Guy Pearce uttering lines like, “You’re a young woman in a frightening new world. I think you just need somebody to walk through it with you”? Could it be this summer’s answer to Stranger Things? Let us hope that The Innocents (Friday, Aug. 24) is even half…

The first weekend I lived in San Francisco I found a local used bookstore in my neighborhood where I promptly bought half a dozen books that were set in San Francisco. That wasn’t my intention when I walked in the store, but it was a great decision.

When you travel to a different time zone, jet lag can sometimes be a difficult beast to handle. Long flights can be difficult on your body from a sheer “sitting for a long time in a small seat” perspective. When you add in a huge time change, the journey can take an even harder toll on your body.