Новости за 05.10.2023

Two Big 12 powerhouses are facing off this weekend when the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns throw down at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas on Saturday. It’s a classic Red River Rivalry game: Both teams are walking in unbowed and undefeated, but someone has to lose their perfect season.

Taking notes by hand is generally preferable to using tech, both because it’s better for retention and also because so many of the best note-taking methods are designed for notebooks. But sometimes, you just need to the utility of digital notes, and if you don’t want to digitize what you’ve already written, you…

No matter how dedicated you are to responding to and archiving all your emails, there will always be one villainous monster preventing you from hitting true inbox zero: mailing lists. These horrors come in at all hours of the day, clogging things up and making it harder to spot the truly important messages—and it’s…

Google had a major unveiling event earlier this week, revealing the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, along with the Pixel Watch 2 and new Pixel Buds. One of the biggest changes from the previous Pixel is the addition of new AI features on the Pixel 8, mainly manipulating images and audio with AI. But these improvements come…

At the end of the season, it’s understandable that you just want to cover everything up and forget about it for winter. I urge you to consider better treatment your good pal the barbecue grill, which is already engaged in an ongoing, lifelong battle against rust. Because there are huge benefits to preparing your grill…

Ever paid for a ridiculously expensive drink in cash, hence it was “free”? Or spent an extra 30 bucks just to get “free” shipping? Or avoided looking at your credit card statement, because if you can’t see a spending problem then surely it will go away on its own? Welcome to the mental gymnastics of “girl math.”

In the realm of do-it-yourself home improvement, cutting tile can be particularly challenging to accomplish safely. Since the dust it creates can be hazardous to your lungs, and the heat generated while cutting can also cause problems with the tile and for your tools, a wet saw is the best, safest option to handle…

Google’s new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro sport some impressive new features. Audio Magic Eraser lets you reduce distracting sounds like wind, traffic, and talking in videos; Best Take combines the “best” faces from multiple group shots into one final product; and Magic Editor harnesses the power of AI to do things like…

When you’re facing a big cleaning project, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and not know where to start. You can use specific techniques for certain parts of your home, but how do you figure out which parts to even do? Here’s how: you follow this mapping strategy, which helps you figure out what to clean, when.

Everything is getting more expensive these days, and the fuel that heats your home is no exception. Whether you burn oil or gas or have electric heating, it’s going to be more expensive than ever to heat your home during the coming cold weather.

Cats love windows and they tend to like climbing things. Scratching surfaces allows them to stretch, mark the surface with their scent, and work off anxiety and aggression. While these behaviors are all familiar to most cat owners, they can mean ruin for your window treatments. Cats might not be trying to be tiny…

This CompTIA certification course was designed to help people prepare for the CompTIA exams. It comes with 239 hours of content, and it’s on sale for $49.97 right now through October 15.

Many gardeners are aspirational when it comes to saving seeds even if there are some good reasons to skip it. If you’re gardening year round, you don’t always have time to let plants go to seed so you can harvest them because they’re taking up too much space. Plus, each plant needs its seeds saved in a different way,…

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days—like their sister, Prime Day—is an ideal time to pick up smart tech at deep discounts. If you’ve been thinking about pulling the trigger on some new security cameras or waiting for the price to get cut on a hub, now is the time to strike. Just a reminder: You have to be an Amazon Prime…

“Activation” exercises are often recommended at the beginning of workouts. You might get the idea—whether from random TikToks or from a trainer you pay for their expertise—that activations are necessary to get your muscles firing correctly and able to take advantage of the workout to come. That’s not exactly true,…

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days don’t arrive until next week, but the early offers have already begun. Among them: Blink security cameras (up to 60% off), this Ring camera bundle (40% off), Amazon Fire TV Sticks starting at $17.99, and Amazon’s Echo smart speakers as low as $14.99. And now, to complete your Amazon…

Have you experienced sticker shock at the gas pump recently? The average price of a gallon of gasoline is $3.78 across the country as of October 4, 2023, and it went as high as $5.02 a gallon in June, so it’s hard not to think, “Jesus, that much?” when filling your tank. But despite appearances fanned by self-serving…

Uber has been more than a ride-hailing service since the launch of Uber Eats and, more recently, Uber Connect, which allows you to book a driver to ferry everything from documents to gifts from you or your business around town. Now, in addition to having almost anything delivered, you can call an Uber to collect your…

Welcome to another TikTok Myth of the Week—one that I really, truly wish I were making up. Today we’re talking about “bone smashing,” sometimes known by similar names such as “bone mashing.” It’s when you hit your face with a hammer, but gently. To make yourself prettier.

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Thursday, October 5, 2023, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Beware, there are spoilers below for October 5, NYT Connections #116! Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s…

Week six sees the Texas A&M Aggies smashing it up with Alabama’s Crimson Tide in a crucial battle for SEC West supremacy this Saturday. Both teams are 2-0 in their division, and both teams are out for blood.

Before the explosion of streaming services, watching a rousing cricket match could be a sticky wicket in the United States, but these days, it’s easy, mate. Badgers (extreme cricket fans) can watch all 48 matches from cricket’s ICC ODI World Cup from their living rooms, even if they don’t have cable TV, so there’s no…

The Google Pixel Watch 2 looks to build off everything that Google did right with the original Pixel Watch, which was released in 2022. But how does the second generation of the wearable stand up against the first? Is it worth upgrading? Here are the big differences between the two Google-branded wearables.