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We love the convenience and feature-rich nature of the apps and products big corporations can offer you, but we’re also proponents of personal autonomy and control over your online experience. However, it’s one thing to just turn your back on the big corporations; it’s another to do so mindfully and ethically.

Because getting a college education isn’t expensive enough, the fees for taking the SAT and ACT tests as part of the admissions process can be a hardship for many high school students and their families.

If you find someone’s lost wallet on the ground, you can be a good Samaritan and lazy: just drop it in the blue box.

Today is Equal Pay Day, the day on which we acknowledge that a woman would have to work a full fifteen months to earn what a man in an equivalent role makes in a year. Since the wage gap is 80 cents to the dollar—that is, a woman earns 80 cents for every dollar a male peer earns—it takes women until April 2 to earn…

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Every geek worth their (Taco Bell) salt has a stash of tech gear they can’t live without. And it’s not just a pile of expensive stuff: old-school gaming consoles, a stack of hard drives, or a forgotten drawer of old smartphones. There are plenty of essentials that are worth packing into your toolbelt, fanny pack, or…

On Twitter, Simon Willison gives us a fantastic roundup of behind-the-scenes content from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, straight from the artists themselves. (Thanks to Kottke for the tip.) Two thoughts: 1) Kudos to Sony for allowing this level of transparency, and 2) Every Spider-Verse-obsessed kid needs to see…

If you haven’t asked your kid—or any kid—what they want to be when they grow up, I commend you. It’s one of those default questions that adults ask kids, a reflex leftover from our own childhood when we were asked ad nauseam whether we wanted to be a doctor, an astronaut or a teacher.

Here’s a bright idea: Pick up a few of these brand new eufy Lumos smart bulbs for 20% off. These second-generation units are smaller than the previous generation, but keep all the Alexa- and Google Home-compatibility we all loved.

Far too many home cooks have a mental block about homemade bread. This is a huge bummer: bread is among the most satisfying and rewarding things you can learn to make, but complex recipes and unnecessary gate-keeping scare off all but the most stubborn of newbie bakers.

I moved from Washington State to Iowa in late 2017. The move itself cost me $5,929.10.

Roads are different everywhere, so I wasn’t sure what to expect when Lifehacker’s Costa Rica contingent nominated me to drive the rental car. Our roads turned out to be dusty and bumpy, but not hard to drive on if you’re used to this kind of thing. (I found the most stressful part to be parallel parking in a crowded…

The quest for the perfect night’s rest often involves a brand new mattress, some memory foam pillows, and a weighted blanket. But I have a lot of friends who swear by a white noise machine, and right now is a perfect time to try ‘em out.

The best way to help young kids understand math concepts isn’t by standing in front of a white board and rattling off multiplication facts. Rather, it’s by letting them see math in action. Board games are a great way for little learners to get a grasp on skills such as pattern recognition, spacial reasoning, problem…

Some items are easy to recycle, like a plastic bottle or newspaper. Other things are a lot more difficult, simply because they probably won’t fit in your average recycling bin—like a king-size mattress, for instance.