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Thursday, 1 March 2018

eBay follows Amazon with its own ‘Under $10’ section

eBay is announcing a new section called “Under $10” today, which lists millions of products that cost $10 or less, following the footsteps of Amazon. Amazon added its own $10 and Under section to its app and website last month, including products like T-shirts, earrings, hats, and phone cases.

eBay’s section will include similar offerings, including video games, watches, audio players and mini speakers, headphones and earbuds, and fitness accessories. The purchase will truly be under $10, as shipping is entirely covered and bidding is not required.

Both companies are likely competing against budget shopping apps like Wish for market share. Wish, in particular, had a pre-market valuation of $8.5 billion, according to Forbes, making it...

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Airlines Are Waiving Cancellation Fees for Some Flights Ahead of the Northeast's Big Storm Tomorrow

As the East Coast anticipates a nor’easter this week, some airlines are waiving fees for customers who want to rebook flights ahead of time.

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Samsung's Galaxy S9 Plus earns best-ever DxOMark camera ratings - CNET

Citing "premium specs" and "top-end performance," the camera experts at at DxOMark put the Galaxy S9 Plus at the top of the mobile leaderboard -- one point ahead of the Google Pixel 2.

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Samsung's new Galaxy phones could make AR mainstream - CNET

Commentary: Thanks to Bixby Vision on the forthcoming Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, you can "try on" makeup and get an estimated calorie count of your meal with the phones' cameras. How did Samsung know what I wanted?

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Are brown eggs healthier and tastier than white eggs?

Amuse Our Bouche is The Takeout’s column that answers your burning, boiling, and flambéed food questions.

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The European Commission wants Facebook, Google to remove terrorist content within an hour after being flagged

The European Commission has sent out expansive guidelines aimed at Facebook, Google, and other tech companies on removing terrorist and other illegal content online. The commission outlined recommendations, which apply to all forms of illegal content, including terrorist media, child sexual abuse, counterfeit products, copyright infringement, and material that incites hatred and violence. The recommendations also specify clearer procedures, more efficient tools, and stronger safeguards including human oversight and verification, so something that’s incorrectly flagged can be restored.

As part of the new guidelines, the commission demands that companies remove terrorist content without an hour after it gets referred, stating that such...

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The best wireless charger you can buy is on sale for $29.99 at Amazon

If you’ve bought a new phone in the past year, it most likely has wireless charging capability. Most new Android phones have had wireless charging capabilities for a few years now, and Apple got into the game last year with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Using a Qi charging pad is a tiny change that only saves you a few seconds a day, but those seconds add up. Plus, if your phone doesn’t have a headphone jack and you haven’t invested in Bluetooth headphones, you can still listen to music while charging your phone (without having to use a dongle.)

Last year, The Verge rounded up our favorite Qi chargers and landed on the RavPower Fast Charge Wireless Charging Pad as the best wireless charger on the market. RavPower edged out other brands like...

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The Light Phone 2 adds messaging and more to the ultra-minimalist cellphone

The mobile Harry Potter RPG could be a Hogwarts dream or a free-to-play nightmare

The Best Nashville Tips From Our Readers

We got 90 comments full of Nashville tips this week. Many commenters agreed: Visit but please don’t move here. See a Predators hockey game, get out of the crowded Lower Broadway area, and visit Nashville’s replica of the Parthenon. (“It’s not called the Athens of the South for nothing,” says Shoy.) We also got more…

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Earther Why Do Nor’easters Cause Such Bad Flooding?

Earther Why Do Nor’easters Cause Such Bad Flooding? | The A.V. Club Donald Glover buying an adorable Girl Scout’s cookies almost makes up for Omarosa on The Late Show | The Takeout 3 online cooking series to restore your faith in online cooking series |

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Upgrade To Surround Sound For Just $218, With Minimal Wires Required

Want to enjoy surround sound without running wires every which way across your living room? Both this Samsung curved sound bar system and an accompanying set of surround speakers are on sale for all-time low prices, combining for just $218 right now.

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Get Your Bank Account Balance Texted to You Every Morning

Each morning, I wake up to a text with my checking account balance. I do this because I have a tendency to overspend that I’ve actively trying to curb, and I like knowing how much money I have at any given time. It’s a small thing that keeps me aware of my larger goals.

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How to Disable Facebook's Facial Recognition Feature

If you’ve logged into Facebook over the past few days, you’ve probably seen a note from the social network about expanding its facial recognition features.

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Four Popular Anker Accessories Are Cheaper Than Ever, Today Only

We’re no strangers to Anker deals, but today’s Amazon Gold Box features four particularly good deals from our readers’ favorite charging accessory company.

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How I Lost 45 Pounds in a Year

Every year, for many, many years, I would promise myself I’d lose weight. Sometimes I would make a little headway, but mostly I didn’t. Then in 2017, it happened. Like most huge changes, it was actually lots of little choices adding up to something big. Here’s how I did it.

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Equifax finds 2.4 million more users affected by 2017 breach - CNET

Investigators have found millions of new users affected by last year's massive breach of the credit reporting firm.

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Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear’s next steampunk adventure Stone Mad

In 2015, fantasy author Elizabeth Bear released Karen Memory, a steampunk novel about a sex worker living in an alternate 1878 in the Pacific Northwest who runs into trouble when a serial killer begins stalking women in the area. Bear is now back with a short sequel to that novel, Stone Mad, and we have an excerpt.

The story takes place after the events of Karen Memory, in which Karen and her friend Priya are celebrating their survival and rewards from their last adventure. They’ve purchased a ranch and are working on moving on when a pair of spiritualist sisters accidentally stir up an angry tommy-knocker — a magical creature that generally lives in the deep mines — which raises hell in town and drags Karen and Priya back into trouble....

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Android Go is here to fix super cheap phones

When a new version of Android comes out, it’s usually a big deal. There are new features, a bunch of design changes, and sometimes new phones to go along with it. But when a new version of Android launched on six new phones this week, it didn’t seem like a big deal at all, and it was quickly overshadowed by announcements like the Galaxy S9.

That’s because those six phones are largely under $100, and it’s because that version of Android isn’t designed for the kind of flashy new phones that grab headlines.

Android Go — which Google would like us to refer to as “Android Oreo (Go Edition),” which is not going to happen — is a stripped-down version of Android meant to run on inexpensive, low-end devices: devices without much processing power,...

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Watch an Atlas V rocket launch a next-generation weather satellite to space

<em>A rendering of NOAA’s GOES-S satellite, launching on March 1st from Cape Canaveral, Florida.</em>

On March 6th, 2017, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest weather satellite, called GOES-16, detected wildfires in northern Texas from space — before firefighters in the area even received 911 calls. NOAA quickly alerted local officials, who began evacuating people.

“We saved lives,” says Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service at NOAA, “well before we even went operational.” In fact, NOAA had just gotten access to the first GOES-16 imagery when it spotted the wildfires, while the satellite was still in its testing phase. Four days in, and GOES-16 was already showing its perhaps most important potential.

Now, NOAA is launching a second satellite that will complement the work of GOES-16, which...

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Forget that fragile phone. Rugged alternatives await - CNET

This small but mighty phone niche is growing and offers a real alternative if the delicate flagships on the market aren't doing it for you.

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Apple Watch tracks skiing, Facebook's job hub expands video - CNET

Today's big tech stories include Apple releasing an update to its Watch that allows you to record data from your ski and snowboard adventures. Meanwhile, Facebook opens up its job hunting tool to 40 new countries.

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Get the amazing Amazfit Bip smartwatch for $80 - CNET

It's an Apple Watch lookalike with GPS, heart-rate monitoring and more. Plus: A pluggable power bank and a huge discount on premium neckband headphones.

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How does HomePod stack up against Sonos with Alexa?

Apple’s entrance into the “smart” speaker market earlier this month was remarkable because of its lateness almost more than anything else: Amazon’s Echo speakers have been around for a few years, Sonos (finally) brought a voice assistant to its Wi-Fi speaker last fall, and even Google managed to sneak in its smart speaker before the end of the year, despite not being a hardware-first company.

But the HomePod launch was also noteworthy because of the approach Apple seems to have taken with it: it’s a high-end audio party in the front, and that whole virtual assistant business has been shoved to the back. The HomePod sounds incredible — really, it does — while Siri speaker can’t tell you what’s next on your calendar or handle more than...

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Uber is driving patients to their doctors in a big grab for medical transit market

Uber announced the launch of a new digital tool meant to book rides for patients who need assistance getting to and from their appointments. A health care provider can book a ride for patients and caregivers immediately, within a few hours, or with 30 days’ notice. The company is positioning itself as a cheaper and more reliable option than most non-emergency medical transportation.

Uber Health is available in two versions: as an online dashboard and as an API for software developers to integrate ride-hailing capabilities into their own health care tools. The service doesn’t require an Uber account; notifications can arrive via SMS text message. The company plans to expand the service so that people with landlines will be able to get...

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Untangling Enigma's code - CNET

Here' an up-close look at the Enigma machine that enabled the Nazis to send secret communications and ultimately helped make D-Day possible.

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5G may make AR smartglass experiences worth trying video - CNET

A fast wireless connection could offload the processing work from the glasses, allowing them to be smaller and smarter.

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The problem with voice recognition: It's shite being Scottish video - CNET

Are Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant up to the challenge of an extremely Scottish accent? Only one way to find out...

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Galaxy S9's Intelligent Scan unlock favors ease over security - CNET

CNET takes an in-depth look at Samsung's new biometrics verification system -- and how it stacks up against the iPhone X’s Face ID.

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Scandal, trust, greed may bring the change #womenintech hope for - CNET

Commentary: As Women's History Month begins, I'm optimistic things will finally start to change for #womenintech. If they don't, we should all ask: Why not?

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Can 5G make smart glasses cool? - CNET

An AR demonstration from Ericsson hints at how a faster wireless connection can lead to slimmer, lighter mobile devices. That's a big deal for smart glasses.

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Best Buy is closing all 250 of its mobile stores in the US

I got my iPhone’s battery replaced and I’m angry Apple didn’t tell me sooner

The iPhone 6S Plus from 2015 — old tech, but more than useable (with a new battery)

Two weeks ago I went to an Apple store and had a new battery put in my iPhone 6S. The very next day I realized how unusable my old battery had been making my phone.

The repair restored functionality that had been seeping away so slowly I hadn’t really registered the loss. Apps now load when I tap them, not when they feel like it. The keyboard doesn’t freeze when I try to reply to emails in Outlook. My phone no longer clings to its charging cable like it’s a hospital drip, and the battery itself has stopped taking surprise nosedives from 40 percent charge down to zero when I have the temerity to go outside in the cold. (Yes, cold weather kills batteries.) The trust is back in my relationship with my phone, but as a result I trust Apple a...

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Google has been hit with a new law suit claiming its ‘bro-culture’ encouraged sexual harassment

Google has been hit with another lawsuit, this time from a former employee who says she was subjected to constant harassment due to “bro culture” within the organization. As reported by Gizmodo, the suit alleges that Loretta Lee, a former software engineer, had to endure lewd comments, pranks, and even physical violence from coworkers.

Lee worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016, and is suing the company for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination. She says Google did nothing to intervene. The lawsuit outlines a number of instances of harassment, including male colleagues who “spiked her drinks with whiskey and laughed about it”; a co-worker who sent her a message asking if...

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Torn between the iPhone X and Galaxy S9? Here's how to choose - CNET

We break down the most important features you should consider when comparing the S9 to the iPhone X.

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Security advisories for critical infrastructure don’t help - CNET

The majority of security advisories for critical infrastructure like power plants and factories recommend patches. But for most critical infrastructure, that advice isn’t practical.

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BestBuy is closing all 250 of its mobile stores in the US

Sky Q is getting Spotify, Netflix, and HDR support

British Satellite TV broadcaster Sky is unveiling a number of new improvements to its Sky Q service this week. Spotify will launch on Sky Q in the UK and Ireland in the spring, and like other third-party apps it will be integrated into the Sky Q interface for quick access to songs and playlists.

Alongside Spotify, Sky is also adding Netflix integration. This highly-requested addition will see Netflix shows like The Crown or Stranger Things be directly available within the Sky Q interface. Sky says it’s bundling the full Netflix service into “a brand new Sky TV subscription pack,” which means existing Netflix customers can migrate to the new Sky TV bundle any pay the Netflix subscription fee to Sky directly, or simply sign into the...

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Essential’s limited-edition phone colors look spectacular

Since the Essential Phone was announced, the teal and copper “Ocean Depths” model has always stood out as the company’s boldest and by far most distinctive color scheme. Months and months of delays later, I wondered if anyone would actually care that it was finally being released — but that changed after seeing it in person.

I’ve seen and held a lot of phones over the last five years, and none has been quite like this. Essential’s Ocean Depths model radiates color. It’s bright and saturated in a surprising blue-green that makes it feel like some lost piece of treasure beside the cavalcade of black and white phones that make up so much of the market.

I don’t know why Essential spent so many months working on this, and I don’t know if...

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You can now stream UFC shows on Amazon - CNET

UFC and Amazon have inked a deal that begins with Sunday's UFC 222.

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GE's washing machine handles your laundry basics - CNET

The $699 GE GTW680BSJWS top-load washer cleans well and keeps it simple with few features.

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2019 Hyundai Santa Fe: Reborn SUV cops a winning attitude - Roadshow

A quick spin in this midsize crossover suggests there's both substance and clever tech beneath its pugnacious new skin.

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Enigma: Up close with a Nazi cipher machine - CNET

It wasn't a computer, but it created encryption so advanced that humans needed machines to break it. CNET takes a look inside.

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Spotify: Lorde got famous thanks to Sean Parker's playlist - CNET

Commentary: Delve deep into the Spotify IPO filing and you'll find music legend.

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#DeleteVero campaign spawned by concerns over founder's past - CNET

The social media app has skyrocketed in popularity, but questions about the co-founder's previous experience has led to a backlash.

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New 'Wonder Woman 2' villain could be Kristen Wiig - CNET

The "Saturday Night Live" alum is in talks to show her evil side as the DC Comics comic book character Cheetah, according to a report.

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'Guardians of the Galaxy' director: Groot died in first film - CNET

Were we supposed to know this? Because some of us thought Baby Groot was just a reborn version of big Groot...

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2019 Audi A6 packs a 1-2 punch of luxury and tech - Roadshow

Three digital displays and mild hybrid technology are the stars of the show.

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Hyundai scoops up more ex-M talent to help build fast cars - Roadshow

Maybe Hyundai figured that Albert Biermann needed some company, so it hired ex-BMW M USA head Thomas Schemera to run its performance and motorsport division.

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Bill Gates warns cryptocurrency has a deadly side - CNET

Microsoft co-founder says criminals, terrorists and tax evaders benefit from cryptocurrencies' anonymous transactions.

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Disney's 'A Wrinkle in Time' premiere features custom Nissans - CNET

Nissan transformed three Leaf EVs into show cars bursting with color and light, including special touch-sensitive LED windows made to mimic some of the special effects in "A Wrinkle in Time."

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Nissan celebrates 'A Wrinkle in Time' with a magical trio of Leaf EVs - Roadshow

Custom wraps, fabrication and high-tech touchscreen windows feature on these fancy show cars inspired by characters in Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time."

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Uber discriminates against people in wheelchairs, lawsuit says - CNET

The ride-hailing company is sued in California for allegedly not providing enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles.

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Huawei's P20 phones may boast iPhone X-style notches - CNET

In addition to the notches, the Huawei P20 Pro will reportedly come with triple rear cameras.

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New episodes of 'Roseanne' hit Hulu starting in March 2018 - CNET

Everything old is new again at Hulu. After 21 years, new episodes of "Roseanne" will stream.

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Paragon Mat makes it fun to flip pancakes - CNET

The Paragon Mat is the latest addition to the Paragon Induction Cooking System, a countertop appliance that lets you set exact cooking temperatures when you pan fry or sous vide.

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iDevices Instant Switch review - CNET

This stick-up Bluetooth switch connects with other iDevices products to let you turn them on and off at the touch of a button from wherever you like.

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Custom 'A Wrinkle in Time' cars feature interactive windows video - CNET

These 2018 Nissan Leaf EVs are kitted out with high-tech, capacitive-touch windows.

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7 buzzworthy phones at Mobile World Congress video - CNET

The Galaxy S9 is not the only new player. There's an iPhone X clone from Asus, a classic Nokia that makes a comeback and a futuristic Vivo concept phone.

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Nissan's newest custom cars inspired by stars of 'A Wrinkle in Time' video - Roadshow

Three 2018 Nissan Leaf EVs get "A Wrinkle in Time" makeovers and take to the red carpet in style.

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The eternal sunshine of the Google Clips - CNET

Commentary: Google's newest automatic camera is an echo of memory-recording promises made before.

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Spotify twice as big as Apple Music, its IPO filing says - CNET

In paperwork to take its shares public in a $1 billion IPO, Spotify estimates it has twice the subscribers of its closest rival.

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Toyota claims record-setting efficiency for new engine - Roadshow

It's part of a wider release covering all corners of the powertrain.

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Equifax possibly profiting off data breach, Sen. Warren says - CNET

After introducing legislation targeting credit bureaus' bottom lines, the Massachusetts senator says, "Equifax is still making money off their own breach."

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Black & Decker Purifry review - CNET

Consider this air fryer to save cash if you're cooking for a small group.

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If You've Had Your Eye on a Dyson, Today's the Day to Buy It

For a limited time, Dyson’s eBay outlet is taking an extra 20% off any $25 order (maximum $50 discount) with promo code PSTARTEARLY, including vacuums, fans, and even hair dryers. They sell a lot of new stuff on eBay, but the best deals are on the refurbs. Either way, they’re sold directly by Dyson; this isn’t a…

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3 online cooking series to restore your faith in online cooking series

By decree of the National Consortium Of Cooking Video Producers, all videos published online today must conform to the following standards:

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The A.V.

The A.V. Club Do the wrong thing: 90 years, 90 movies that should have been nominated for Best Picture | Earther You Need to Watch This New Netflix Series on Flint | The Takeout Do you find the Jane Walker whisky logo condescending? |

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The 10 Best Deals of February 28, 2018

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

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Change Isn't Good or Bad, It Just Is

Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and a guide to using its waters to reflect on and improve your life.

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Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs

For everyone subscribed to the philosophy of GTD, myself included, task managers are essential to managing the process digitally. Of course, they’re only useful if you actually use them, as evidenced by the trail of task managers I’ve left in my wake as I search for one with the right combination of cross-platform…

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How to Clone Your Pet

Barbra Streisand recently revealed that two of her fluffy white Coton de Tulear pups are clones of her dog Samantha who died last year. Yes, cloning your dog is a thing, and if you have a ton of money lying around, you can do it too.

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You're Caramelizing Onions All Wrong

I, like so many millennials, am a big fan of instant gratification, and am always looking to hack, streamline, or otherwise speed up the process of cooking delicious food. There is, however, one tasty treat that is always going to take its sweet, caramelized time: the onion.

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How to Not Join Your Kid's School PTA

The pressure to join the Parent-Teacher Association at your child’s school starts early and continues often over the course of their elementary career. The pull is especially strong for those of us who are either stay-at-home parents or work-from-home parents because we recognize that our schedules provide more…

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Protect Your Privacy With $10 Off Our Readers' Favorite VPN Service [Exclusive]

It’s not hard to find good deals on VPN subscriptions, but our readers’ favorite service, Private Internet Access, is notable for hardly ever running sales. Just for our readers though, they’re opening back up their holiday offer of two years for $60, down from the usual $70. That’s just $2.50 per month to protect…

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Real Adults Never Run Out of Paper Products

Is your home always stocked with the cushiest brand of tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins? Good, stop reading. Everyone else: This is a remedial course in how to fill your home with paper hygiene products like an adult. I realized the importance of this course when discovering that several of my younger…

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Use These Prompts If You Need Help Journaling

Like any habit, journaling is easier said than done. I tried for years (all of the half-empty notebooks in my childhood bedroom can attest to this) and didn’t form a sustaining habit until I studied abroad in college and wrote in a travel journal daily. Something just clicked during that time, and I kept it up when I…

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Play Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Ten years ago, we wrote about Six Degrees of Wikipedia, a cute web page that would find the link path between any two Wikipedia pages. Now there’s a new visual version, by a different developer, with an updated database. The new Six Degrees of Wikipedia visualizes all the shortest paths between any two entries as a…

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Anker's SoundBuds Curves Run For 12 Hours On a Charge, and Are Only $23 Today

Anker’s SoundBuds Curves were a runner up in our recent affordable headphone poll (they were only beat out by Anker’s own SoundBuds Slims), and you can grab a pair for just $23 today. Just use promo code 56OCQ8YT at checkout to save $5.

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What Fitness Professionals Wish You Knew

To get the most out of your personal training sessions and workout classes, it helps to be a good client who knows how things work. Plus, it’s always nice to be nice and make things easier for your instructors. We asked several fitness professionals what they wish their clients knew going in and this is what they said.

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How'd You Do On Your Month-Long Financial Detox?

It’s the last day of February, which means it’s pay day for me (yay) and also the end of our month-long financial detox. If you were following along, did you stick to your goal? Was it easier or harder than you thought?

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What Did a Month of Push-Ups Do for You?

Our February push-up challenge ends today! How did the month go for you? What can you do now that you couldn’t do at the beginning? Whether you joined us for one day or banged out reps all month, let’s talk.

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Just How Multi-Functional Is the Instant Pot's Multigrain Function?

Friends and family ask me if they should get an Instant Pot all the time, and my answer is usually a big, fat shrug. If you’ve never had one before, an Instant Pot will change your life—but so will any other pressure cooker.

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How to Join Your Local Curling Team

Interest in curling always peaks during the Winter Olympics, but the game is, of course, played year-round across the world.

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Syfy has renewed The Magicians for a fourth season

The magicians are coming back. Syfy announced today that it has renewed the fantasy television show The Magicians for a fourth, 13-episode season, which will premiere in 2019. The show is currently midway through airing season 3, which premiered on January 10th.

The Magicians is based on Lev Grossman’s bestselling trilogy of novels, which follow aspiring magician Quentin Coldwater and his friends as they attend a magical academy called Brakebills, hidden in upstate New York. They discover that Fillory, the fantasy world of a popular children’s book series, is real, and that life as magicians isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In the show’s second season, they become Fillory’s rulers, and as they contend with hostile neighbors and a world...

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Here’s a Kickstarter that adds wireless charging to your AirPods case

Back in the distant past, when Apple was announcing the wireless charging capabilities of the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, Apple promised a new generation of AirPods that would include a case capable of wireless charging. We even heard a rumor that Apple would sell the case separately for $69. Also, that rumor stated the case would be available in December.

So far? Nothing.

While we wait for Apple to get its act together — presumably it’ll launch the new AirPods alongside the upcoming AirPower charging mat, which could literally happen at any time — we turn our collective gaze to Kickstarter to solve this horrible problem of plugging things in.

Behold, the PowerPod Case!

PowerPod Case is a silicone case which holds your AirPod case, which...

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Chadwick Boseman says T’Challa is the enemy in Black Panther

Major spoilers ahead for Black Panther.

Cultural critics have had a lot to say about how Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger is a sympathetic villain, and how black viewers can identify with his point of view. He’s a casual murderer with a lengthy kill list literally carved into his own body, but Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) isn’t just fighting for personal reasons. He’s avenging his father and his lost childhood, but he identifies with other black people who’ve grown up in poverty, and he wants to use Wakanda’s advanced technology to liberate people of color who’ve been oppressed by Western imperialism. His goals have real political weight, and they’re more interesting than those of a lot of superhero-movie villains, who are often...

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in March

The Academy Awards may be happening this weekend, but after the best of 2017 is all sorted out, there will be time to watch other movies and TV shows — and streaming services are there with plenty of programming options this March. Netflix is continuing to lean into its original television shows, with the second season of Jessica Jones arriving on March 8th, the latest episode of David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction debuting on March 9th, and the new series On My Block premiering on March 16th. The service will also be adding some films to its lineup as well, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Revolutionary Road, and Joel Edgerton’s creepy thriller The Gift.

Amazon Prime customers will be able to watch the Ben Stiller...

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YouTube says new moderators might have mistakenly purged right-wing channels

YouTube indicated that as the platform ramps up human-powered moderation efforts, new moderators may have mistakenly removed or flagged right-wing videos and channels. Bloomberg reported the news this afternoon, quoting a YouTube spokesperson saying that “as we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals.” The spokesperson said that YouTube’s policies had not changed, and that “we’ll reinstate any videos that were removed in error.”

The Outline reported earlier today that several right-wing channels had been completely shut down since the Parkside shooting, and others had been issued strikes against their account — most...

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Google’s Flutter app development framework is now in beta

It’s 2018, how should you make an app? Here’s the short answer: nobody knows. But maybe that’s a good thing.

Yesterday, Google announced the official beta release of its Flutter app development framework (as seen on 9to5Google). It’s one way to make an app, and it’s especially well-suited to fancy user interfaces.

”But wait,” you ask, “didn’t Google just announce Kotlin support for Android development? Why would Google want me to learn Flutter now?”

And that’s a very good question.

See, there are two main paths to app development. “Native” development, where you use the default tools and languages provided by Apple or Google for their respective platforms. But then there’s... everything else. You can make apps for Android and iOS in C#...

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How Annihilation’s visual effects artists created those terrifying mutant creatures

The last time director Alex Garland and visual effects supervisor Andrew Whitehurst worked together, they created Alicia Vikander’s Ava, the robot star of Ex Machina. For their follow-up collaboration, Annihilation, they had a much bigger set of challenges. Garland’s newest film is a heady mind-trip that explores humanity’s self-destructive impulses, but it’s also a walking tour of the gorgeous and the grotesque. The story of Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist who joins a group of women to explore an area of coastal America that’s rapidly mutating due to an alien contaminant, Annihilation is full of improbably beautiful biological mashups, shimmering landscapes, and human-plant hybrids.

It also features one of the most terrifying...

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LG showed off a phone called the G7 at Mobile World Congress

We’ve heard rumors that LG won’t call its next G-series phone the G7, and that the company scrapped its internal plans for the phone to start fresh. But today, Israeli publication Ynet published a video of a device that’s clearly marked as the G7 with the codename Neo. It’s unclear whether this is actually the device LG will be releasing or if it’s just to show some work the company’s done on one of its next phones.

Ynet reports this phone has a notch, of course, along with a 6-inch OLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. It has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera, two 16-megapixel cameras in the back, and a rear fingerprint sensor. It also incorporates Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 processor and has 4GB of RAM with 64GB of storage. It has...

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Logitech’s customizable dial Craft keyboard gets Lightroom support and an open SDK

Google wants to teach more people AI and machine learning with a free online course

Machine learning and AI are some of the biggest topics in the tech world right now, and Google is looking to make those fields more accessible to more people with its new Learn with Google AI website.

Google has been pursuing AI education for a while, both with advanced projects like TensorFlow and more playful projects like cat doodles and a machine vision experiment meant to showcase AI projects in more practical ways.

Google envisions the Learn with Google AI site serving as a repository for machine learning and AI, and it’s meant to be a hub for anyone looking to “learn about core ML concepts, develop and hone your ML skills, and apply ML to real-world problems.” The site will apparently cater to all levels of AI enthusiasts, from...

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What Parents Need to Know About Juuling

One of the biggest topics right now in high school parent newsletters everywhere is the Juul. It’s a popular e-cigarette system that looks a lot like a USB flash drive—you may have seen one in your teenager’s room, figuring it contains an essay on The Great Gatsby. Based on Twitter and Instagram posts with the hashtag…

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Wednesday's Best Deals: MicroSD Cards, Levi's Sale, Reader-Favorite Wireless Headphones, and More

Find discounts on a whole bunch of SanDisk microSD cards, pretty much everything at Levi’s, our readers’ favorite affordable headphones, and more.

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018

The Clone Wars: iPhone X copycats battle for notch supremacy

Former Tottenham Hotspur soccer player Ledley King looked slightly sheepish as he pulled down the massive red curtain to reveal a new phone, and not just because it got stuck on a hook. And who could blame him? Behind the curtain was a picture of Tottenham’s star lineup, including current Premier League top goalscorer Harry Kane with a pained expression on his face and an uncannily familiar phone in his hand.

Above Kane's head read the slogan: “Android Oreo Notch Display”.

That’s right: the notch is now a selling point. Kane’s supposed phone, the Leagoo S9 Pro, is just one of a tide of iPhone X clones that have swept through Mobile World Congress this week, often from little-known Chinese manufacturers competing to get products out as...

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Ford's self-driving cars bring a different kind of fiesta to Miami - Roadshow

The automaker will have two separate projects running in Miami to both flesh out its AV platform and see how the public reacts to 'self-driving' delivery vehicles.

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