Новости за 13.12.2018

It’s too much to expect that you never argue with your lover, spouse, or partner in romantic crime. Here’s how you can make that argument more of a productive discussion than a constant stream of bickering.

Lifehacker readers are nothing if not practical. According to our traffic logs, in 2018 you wanted faster wifi, cheaper flights, and a guide to staying anonymous when you win the lottery. All stuff that people need to live a happy and productive life. Check out our stories on these topics and more in our ten most…

One of the great things about living during such a technologically robust time is that our kids benefit from the ease and immediacy with which they can contact Santa.

Tonight is the company holiday party. Don’t fuck it up.

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Besides telling you how to hack your life, we here at Lifehacker love to help you understand the world around you, whether you’re puzzling over an obscure feature of your computer or a big political issue in the news. Here are some of our best explainers from 2018.

Headed to Beijing, trade war be damned? Get yourself a VPN so you can access the internet outside the Great Firewall. Hack Your City readers took their second trip to China this week, giving travel hacks for the capital city. They pointed out which famous attractions are overrated, which neighborhoods are up and…

You know what I like doing on Christmas? Eating. You know what I don’t like doing on Christmas? Cleaning. You know what lets me do a lot of eating and very little cleaning? The pull-apart bacon, egg, and cheese sliders you see above, which are cooked entirely in one sheet pan.

My son asked me last night what I was going to be writing about today. I’d just been reading this piece in the New York Times about how parents can raise empathetic children, and it had struck a chord with me. As a parent, I desperately want to raise my son to be the sort of person who steps up when others are in…

Another day, another tech company being disingenuous about its privacy practices. This time it’s Microsoft, after it was discovered that Windows 10 continues to track users’ activity even after they’ve disabled the activity-tracking option in their Windows 10 settings.

Apple, like most of the tech giants, collects a lot of data about you. Not as much as everybody else—since it’s not the single search engine you rely on for everything—but you can’t use Apple products and services without leaving some kind of digital footprint.

A proliferation of ETFs over the past few years has translated into a record number of the low-cost funds closing, according to Associated Press reporter Anna-Louise Jackson, as not all of the funds can attract enough investors to stay afloat. In fact, the AP reports that through September, 132 ETFs have stopped…

Do you date? Do you eat fast-casual barbacoa with extra guac? Happy holidays! From Thursday, December 13, 2018 through the end of year, members of dating site Hinge can buy one entree item, get one item free at participating Chipotle locations online or in-store in the U.S.

Is your password sunshine, 666666, or monkey? Bad news: if a hacker tries to guess your password, those are some of the very first ones they’ll try. SplashData, makers of the password managers SplashID, TeamsID, and Gpass, just released its annual “worst passwords” list. The company examined over 5 million leaked…

If you’re waiting for the perfect person to show up and accompany you on something as big as the trip of a lifetime or as small as to see your favorite band, stop waiting. Just go.

Maybe you win a lot. Or maybe you just run a lot of races that give finisher’s medals—marathons, half marathons, novelty 5Ks. Either way, that first treasured medal eventually blooms into a few pounds of hardware weighing down your doorknob or filling up your dresser drawer. Here are some more fun ways to…

There’s always something new to watch on Twitch, whether it’s someone build-gunning their way through a Fortnite match, completing a 24-hour marathon of some classic game you haven’t played since childhood, or showing you all the secrets for that brand-new expansion from your favorite digital card game.