Новости за 24.04.2019

Good news if you’ve got a bored teen hanging around your house this summer: Planet Fitness is offering a Summer Challenge sweepstakes that basically amounts to a summer-long free gym pass for teens aged 15 to 18.

Web: When I’m on Windows, I can’t stand iTunes. Even when I’m on my MacBook, the experience is less than ideal. But what can you do? If you’ve bought into Apple’s ecosystem—especially its $9.99/month Apple Music—you don’t really have a choice. Right?

I’ve tried it all: Zyrtec, Allegra, Claritin, Xyzal, Benadryl, Nasacort, Flonase—even a neti pot—and still, I struggle to find one single, effective tool that’ll rid my bloodshot eyes and mucus-lined nose once and for all.

Two years ago Instagram added support for polls within Instagram Stories. Today it took that feature a step further with the introduction of a new “Quiz” feature that allows you to pose multiple choice questions to your friends in your Stories.

The biggest highlight from my trip to Copenhagen was getting to shoot a video on the farm and in the kitchen of Restaurant Relae, an establishment that is more than a little focused on sustainability. I learned many things (that you will also learn in the forthcoming video), including how to make a silky, crazy…

Kohl’s announced this week that all of its 1,150 locations will accept unpackaged Amazon returns, starting in July. So now, if you can’t figure out whether all those five-star reviews are fake or not, you could just order the thing, decide for yourself and inevitably return it—this time to a store. (Or you can just…

Did you take a personal finance course in high school? How about college? Depending on when you attended classes, you might have learned now-outdated information such as “how to balance a checkbook” and “why you should put your money in a high-interest savings account.”

It’s a tough week to be a geek, unless you like watching characters you’ve loved for years, if not decades, bite the big one. Be sure to bring your Mjölnir-sized Kleenex box to Avengers: Endgame this week (especially if you, like me, have Thanos as your #1. Though he’s unlikely to get an Ant-Man up his ass, I somehow…

The most eco-friendly way to pack food and drinks for a trip to the beach is obviously in a reusable cooler, and yet, every year, you see hundreds of those disposable styrofoam coolers lining the top of the frozen food section at every grocery store, all of them destined to end up in landfills by Labor Day.

Chicken thighs have a lot going for them, particularly in regards to their meat-to-skin ratio. But their roundish, mound-like shape means browning the skin on all sides takes some manipulation and maneuvering.

Two words for May, Netflixsters: Mister. Mom.

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Twitter has been rolling out its newest redesign for the desktop site over the past several months. The new layout has a more compact and streamlined look and adds in new features such as image editing tools and a bookmarked tweets tab.

Drowning should be easy to spot, right? The victims thrash around, screaming for help as they struggle to stay above water.

If you earned under $34,000 and paid to file your taxes with TurboTax, it’s time to call and ask for a refund.

As security concerns grow, visas are becoming more and more necessary when traveling out of the country. With the changing rules, knowing where you need a visa to travel to and where you don’t can be a bit challenging. Passport Index is a website that can help.

Some of you are naturally hardwired to excel at do-it-yourself home improvement projects. You revel in the chaos that is tearing up carpet, building a shed or knocking down a wall to achieve that coveted “open concept” layout.

When my wife and I moved our family from the Bay Area to Seattle in 2015, we initially settled on an overpriced but otherwise unremarkable rental home. It wasn’t big enough for what we needed, delivery trucks roared down the street out front at all hours, and the apple tree out back—which was supposed to be some kind…