April 24, 2020
Scientists Want to Know About Your Sourdough Starter
If you’ve ever tried making a sourdough starter, you know it’s a bit of an experiment. You’re literally capturing wild yeasts, feeding them, and hoping that they create a microbial community that will end up smelling and tasting delicious. Maybe you’ll be successful, maybe you won’t.
Security
Use Permissions to Keep Scammy Apps Off Your Android
Google has removed yet another batch of awful Android apps from the Google Play Store for breaking the company’s terms of service. The roundup includes 101 apps belonging to a single group known as the 2NAD network, which used 27 fake developer names as a front to distribute its many...
Lifehacker Originals
Get a Week's Worth of Coffee at Once With Jerry Saltz's Controversial Java Routine
Last month, Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine and author of How to Be an Artist, went viral on Twitter after he outlined his unconventional weekly coffee routine (and we know a thing or two about people getting upset over coffee).
Apple
How to Keep Yourself Safe From the Zero-Day iOS Mail Attacks
Security researchers recently disclosed two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been present in the stock Mail app for iPhone and iPad for years. Both vulnerabilities let hackers execute remote attacks using emails laced with malicious code—and you might not even have to do anything to be affected.
Tech Essentials
How to Customize Your Background in Skype Video Calls
There’s little I enjoy more than a the well-executed use of a silly background in a video chat. While this quirky feature used to be exclusive to Zoom, more apps are integrating the functionality—including, recently, Microsoft Teams, and now, Microsoft’s own Skype app.
Tiny Hacks
You Deserve Better Than Chicken Breasts During These Trying Times
I have not been to the grocery store in about 10 days now, but the last time I was there I could not help but notice the distinct lack of boneless, skinless chicken breast. Actually, all of the neat, boneless cuts of meat were running quite low and, while I...
Mental Health
Will Only Children Have a Tougher Time During the Pandemic?
If you’re a parent of any number of children, chances are good you’re worried about the effect this time in isolation is having on them. Parents of kids with special needs are struggling to get the services their children usually rely on. Parents of multiple kids are wondering when the...
scams
Don't Share a Screenshot of Your Stimulus Payment Online
I haven’t gotten my IRS stimulus check yet; every time I check the IRS’s Get My Payment site, I get the message “we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time.” I’m not the only one in this particular pickle, which is why people have been visiting sites...
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