Новости за 19.08.2022

If you’re rocking an older MacBook, you probably don’t expect it to keep up with the latest and greatest—an Apple silicon machine is obviously going to outperform that 5-year-old Intel Mac any day. However, your aging laptop probably still has some life left in it. If yours gets too hot and the battery dies too fast,…

Seems we can’t go more than a few days without an alarming headline about the climate crisis—from an impending “megastorm” in California, to an “environmental nuclear bomb” brewing in Utah, to data suggesting that extreme temperatures (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit) are likely to occur more frequently, for longer…

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If a relative uses a wheelchair and wants to come for a visit or someone in your family finds themselves suddenly needing to use one, even temporarily, you may begin looking around your home with a fresh set of eyes. Is the place accessible? Is everything the person will need within reach? While you may not have time…

Need some advice? Sure, we all do. And where we could once turn to the newspaper columnists of yore (from Abby, to Ann, to Amy) to tell us how to live better, these days, advice-givers are all about podcasts.

It makes sense—the medium offer the perfect space to either call in with your own problem, or live vicariously…

Airport security lines are notoriously long, the process is slow, and it’s often difficult to figure out what you need to do in order to get through quickly. There are a few different programs that can help make the process easier, though: TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, NEXUS, and CLEAR. These programs have a lot of…

Anne Heche, the film, television, and Broadway actor, died last week at the age of 53. The media made a great deal of the tragic circumstances surrounding her death, and many were quick to point out her own culpability for the circumstances. Which is true, but hardly kind, and Anne Heche’s health struggles have been…

The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (and similar recommendations from other countries) call for healthy adults to get 150 minutes of moderate exercise, like walking, per week. Vigorous exercise counts double, so if you’re a runner, you can meet the minimum guidelines with 75 minutes. But what if you have…

In the trailer for his new film Beast, opening today, Idris Elba punches a lion. It sounds like the stuff of pulp trash, but the survival thriller/animal attack genre is wide-ranging, encompassing prestigious Oscar bait movies, extreme gore-fests, and lots of low-rent trash (both good and bad).

This week’s happenings in young people culture might give you whiplash. We’re going from extremely great internet things—hilariously stupid memes, positive YouTubers—to extremely terrible ones—manfluencer Andrew Tate, Meta’s horrifying VR platform Horizon Worlds. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart;…

Over the past few months, it’s occurred to me that at my ripe old age of 30, I’ve lost some dexterity in my hands. I used to be able to hold my iced coffee and phone securely in my hand, but these days, my mitts are limited to one function at a time—and I don’t like what that says about my mortality, frankly. Luckily,…

Going on vacation, as enjoyable as it is, can also be exhausting. There’s the jet lag, the fatigue that comes after a packed vacation schedule, on top of which, if you are traveling with kids, there’s bound to be at least a couple of meltdowns. The same also applies to traveling with extended family, as there’s…

Earlier this week, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The federal government will be spending $370 billion over the next decade to fight climate change. It’s a sprawling initiative that covers incentivizing green energy production, industry efficiency, expansion of the Affordable Care Act,…

According to a demographic survey I just made up, seventy-nine percent of Lifehacker’s readers are doing hard time in our nation’s correctional facilities. So if you’re reading this on a purloined cell phone smuggled into your cell, remember: They can’t imprison your mind, and you can help free your consciousness with…

Back at the beginning of the pandemic, beverage writer David Wondrich did us all a huge favor by tweeting a “Drink of the Day,” live from his kitchen with “who-gives-a-shit home photography and old-person threading skills.” The series is delightful, but I had largely forgotten about it because I don’t drink all that…

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West Nile virus has been found in a record number of mosquitoes in the New York City area, with at least two cases known to have occurred in humans. If you weren’t around for the last big West Nile panic about 20 years ago, you might be wondering just what this disease is and whether you should be worried about it.