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March 12, 2020

Don't Throw Away the Oil From Fancy Cans of Tinned Fish

Depending on where you live, you may or may not be eating a good bit of food out of cans in the near future. If your budget allows it, I urge you to get the fancy cans—at least a few—to make whatever degree of isolation you find yourself in a little bit enjoyable, or at least bearable. Fancy tinned fish is the move.

Uninstall These VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps That Spied on Your iPhone or Android

A recent Buzzfeed investigation discovered that several popular VPN and adblocking apps for Android and iOS secretly collected user data and sent it to Sensor Tower, a cross-platform data analytics service for app developers. The snooping apps include:

How to Assist Coronavirus Research With Folding@Home

Back when I worked at Maximum PC, we were big into Folding. We had a huge team of editors, readers, and computers contributing to Stanford University’s project, which takes your system’s unused resources and dedicates them to protein folding. Your system joins a distributed computing network that processes calculations for...

How to Remember What 'Bear' and 'Bull' Market Mean

I like to think that I know a fair bit about investing, but every time I hear someone say “bear market” or “bull market,” I have to double-check what they actually mean. (Is the bear the one where stocks are dropping, or is that the bull?)

What Does Self-Quarantine Actually Mean?

You may have been asked to “work from home” for now, or to prepare to “self quarantine” if you may have been exposed to COVID-19. But there’s some confusion over what this involves. Can you work from a cafe? Walk the dog?

How to Report Price Gouging During the Coronavirus Outbreak

So you’ve decided it’s time to calmly purchase a few extra containers of cleaning wipes or hand sanitizer the next time you’re at the store. But when you get there, you find that the prices for these ordinary products seem to be unusually high. What gives?

What Parents Should Know About Boys and Eating Disorders

Parents of girls likely know that, with all the pressure from society and peers (and sometimes even family), they need to be on the lookout for signs of eating disorders. But what experts have really only fairly recently started to figure out is that our boys might be at risk...

What It Means Now That WHO Is Calling COVID-19 a Pandemic

Until just now, the World Health Organization did not want to call COVID-19 a pandemic. Today they decided to start using that word.

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Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide in Jail, Is Recovering, Lawyers Say

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Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft Respond To The News Of E3's Cancellation

Earlier today, the Entertainment Software Association said it will cancel the video game trade show E3 this year amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, aka coronavirus. Since the announcement, major game publishers have said they still plan to share news about upcoming games, but in a different format.

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