February 27, 2020
Apple's 'Instant Notes' Is a Must-Have on Your iPhone or iPad
I’m terrible at taking notes, only because I don’t have one of those fancy Samsung smartphones that lets you draw your thoughts right on the lock screen. Instead, I have to yell at a digital assistant—which sometimes gets it right—or I have to authenticate into my phone, pull up my notes app, start a new note, type in my thoughts, make sure the note saves correctly, et cetera. It’s a process, but one that can be a made a little bit easier by enabling iOS’ buried “Instant Notes” feature.
Politics
How Bernie Sanders Plans to Pay for Everything
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has spent the past several months promising to cancel student debt, provide Medicare for everyone, and stave off climate change. But pundits and fellow candidates have spent just as much time asking Sanders how he’s going to pay for all that. This week, the Sanders campaign...
Saving Money
Panera's New $9/Month Coffee Subscription Is Actually a Good Deal
If you’re always popping into the same coffee shop for a quick cup—and that coffee shop just happens to be Panera—you might want to get a subscription.
Quick Fix
How to Get All of Your Subscriptions Under Control
There’s a subscription for everything, from gaming to streaming to pre-packaged meals. And as convenient as all of these services may be, those “only $5/month” offers can quickly stack up and get out of control. In the video above, I share some of the techniques I use to keep my...
Safety
Contigo Is Recalling Millions of Kids' Water Bottles—Again
If your kids use Contigo water bottles with silicone spouts, you may remember that millions of them were recalled due to a choking hazard back in August. Well, now the replacement lids are being recalled, too, after hundreds more reports of the spouts detaching.
Tech Essentials
What Is 'USB Fast Charging' and Why Does It Matter for Your Smartphone?
You might have seen that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra are the first smartphones to receive “fast charging” certification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). Many smartphones claim to have “fast charging” batteries, but if the Galaxy S20 line is the first to get the USB-IF’s official...
Will It Casserole?
The Potato Skin Casserole Is a Cheesy Masterpiece
Potato skins are the weighted blankets of the food world—warm, comforting, and just heavy enough. And yet, we seem to have forgotten the appetizer that propelled TGI Friday’s into the national consciousness three decades ago. Potato skins—the bedrock of bowling alleys and dive bars —are an endangered species.
Little Kids
How to Help Your Kids Build Self-Esteem
Your child really is a special, fantastic little human. They’re an incredibly poised dancer or outgoing in a way you could never be or gifted in math. You know your kids are great; you just want to make sure they know how great they are. And it’s natural to want...
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Jalopnik
Ford Is Trying To Dig Its Way Out Of A Rut
Ford’s COO admits the company is struggling, but he has plans to turn things around. The death knell has come for the iconic Chevy Impala. VW could be on the verge of blowing its most important car launch in decades and a Tesla crash has advocacy groups urging for government safeguards...
Jezebel
Johnny Depp's Threatening Texts About Amber Heard Read Aloud in Court
Alleged abuser Johnny Depp is in the midst of two concurrent lawsuits: one against ex-wife Amber Heard in Fairfax County, Virginia, filed after she published a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post about how abusive men stay protected without mentioning Depp by name, and another in the UK against News...
The A.V. Club
Neil deGrasse Tyson tried to "Well, actually"
Arrival
and it didn't work
When not aggressively branding himself as humanity’s sole gatekeeper to the universe’s cosmic wonders (or being repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct), MIT astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, also has this talent for being the social media equivalent of that guy at the party telling you everything wrong in whatever movie you...
The Inventory
Thursday's Best Deals: Vizio 65" QLED TV, Dyson Cordless Vacuum, Tacklife 1200A Car Jump Starter, and More
A 65" Vizio M-Series 4K HDR QLED TV for $500, a $190 refurbished Dyson cordless vacuum, and a heavily discounted Tacklife 1200A car jump starter kick off Thursday’s best deals of the day.
Jalopnik
The 2021 Subaru WRX STI Will Get A New Turbo Boxer Engine Making At Least 400 HP: Report
With all of those gradually-improving power-bumped special edition Subaru WRX STI models out of the way now, the next step is the upcoming next-gen 2021 Subaru WRX STI which will reportedly get a heavily overhauled Boxer engine making nearly 100 horsepower more than the current base STI.
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