May 9, 2020
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Taxes
Don't Get Excited About That $2,000/Month Stimulus Plan
While many Americans continue to wait for their coronavirus relief checks or unemployment benefits, there’s a plan in the works to provide another relief payment—and this one would be monthly.
Windows
Expand File Explorer's Preview Pane With This Windows 10 PowerToy
There are two reasons to install the latest version of Windows 10's PowerToys. First, and most important, PowerToys will soon start self-updating. You won’t have to visit the GitHub every time a new feature drops; you’ll just get it whenever the app updates itself. Progress!
Zoom
Attend a Zoom Meeting From Inside a TARDIS
Custom Zoom backgrounds prevent you from having to show off the same boring wall, messy apartment or kid-caused chaos in every meeting. And if you grew up on BBC shows like “Doctor Who,” “EastEnders,” and “BlackAdder,” you can now bring nostalgia to your conference calls with backgrounds from your...
virtual travel
Take a Virtual Trip to NYC with These Free Tours
In the days before COVID-19, New York City was the most-visited city in the United States. But as the epicenter of the outbreak, it is no longer overrun (or even mildly occupied) by tourists. At this point, not even locals are able to spend time in their city, but...
childcare
When Will It Be Safe to Send Your Child to Daycare?
It’s the biggest pandemic era question facing many parents of young children: When will it be safe for kids to go back to daycare? For the economy to reopen—for people to be able to go back to work at all—the child care issue has to be addressed, and in a...
Food Hacks with Claire
What to Do With Extra Egg Whites and Yolks
If you’ve ever made a meringue, custard, or super-fluffy sour, you have experienced the predicament of excess egg. Whether it be a white or yolk, throwing away the unused portion of an egg feels bad and wasteful, and I am not interested in feeling either of those feelings.
Streaming
Everything You Need to Know About HBO Max
HBO’s newest streaming service, HBO Max, officially launches in just a few weeks. When it arrives on May 27th it will join HBO Go and HBO Now in HBO’s lineup. Yes, that means you have three different streaming options to access HBO content.
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Pete Davidson kindly asks fans to stop bringing quarantine weed to his mom's house
As seen in his impressively homemade music videos on the last two stay-at-home Saturday Night Live episodes, Pete Davidson is spending his New York COVID-19 lockdown ensconced in his mother’s Staten Island basement. Those keeping up with the SNL star’s career and life will remember that Davidson and his mom...
Kotaku
Final Fantasy III
Designer Had His Own Head Canon About White Mage’s Iconic Red Sleeves
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Meet Kristin Cavallari, Incredibly Successful Ex-Wife of Washed-Up NFL Athlete
There are stories more important than those about Kristin Cavallari, who in and of herself doesn’t need defending. She’s blatantly opportunistic, shilling bogus medical advice to ingratiate herself with the most profitable Instagram venture: sponcon. Yet despite this, I have been roused from my Friday nap to offer a simple...
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Fortnite
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Tonight, Fortnite’s new non-violent Party Royale mode held its first big event, a concert of three different EDM musicians. It was more modest than in-game events we’ve seen recently, but, like so many Fortnite events I feel too old for, its exuberant charm won me over.
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Report: Earl Thomas’ Wife Catches Him In Orgy, Holds Him At Gunpoint. Thomas: Things Like This Happen, Pray For Us
The football world is afire with Wednesday’s report of an intense and near-violent domestic incident involving Baltimore Ravens star Earl Thomas.
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