January 28, 2020
Use These Antivirus and Anti-Malware Apps Instead of Avast
If something is free—especially if it’s a complicated something, or something you’d probably have to pay for otherwise—the familiar saying is often true: You’re the product. It’s one of the reasons you’re always being advertised to across the web. Search engines, email services, messaging platforms, or other apps and services you fancy cost money, and companies have to recoup that somehow (and profit).
Travel
How to Avoid Sitting Next to a Crying Baby on a Flight
Back in September, Japan Airlines made headlines for changing some of its flights’ seat maps to including “child icons,” meaning young children would be seated in those spots—a change designed for other passengers to find seating away from those infants on flights.
Household Hacks
How to Freshen the Air Without Sprays
Does it feel a little stuffy in here?
Android
You Can Save Hundreds by Letting Sprint Fix Your Cracked Samsung Phone
Sprint is feeling mighty generous nowadays. If you’ve been dealing with a cracked screen on your Samsung phone, the carrier is offering a special promotion where it’ll fix said screen for a mere $50—a huge savings compared to the hundreds of dollars you’d otherwise spend at a Samsung-authorized repair center.
Coronavirus
Track the Coronavirus Outbreak With This Website
The spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus (also known as 2019-nCoV) throughout mainland China and into other parts of the world is alarming, but it can be hard to understand the current scope of the outbreak without solid figures. For those who are curious (or concerned), the Center for Systems Science...
Should You Worry
What Is the Coronavirus's R0 and Why Does It Matter?
If you want to describe how an infectious disease spreads, one handy number is what epidemiologists call R0 (“R naught”), the disease’s basic reproductive number. Right now, scientists are trying to figure out the R0 for the new coronavirus from Wuhan, China. So far, it seems to be a little...
Email
How Can I Save All My Emails for a Personal Backup?
Having a personal copy of your work emails can definitely come in handy both before and after you leave a job. You can refer to them later, for example, to document feedback you received or projects you worked on—perhaps for samples for your next gig.
Toddlers
Make Your Own Toddler Musical Instruments
I assume my son must have had a least a couple of rattles or shaky noise makers during his baby and toddler years. I don’t really remember them, though. What I do remember is the thing we created for him that quickly became his all-time favorite noise-maker. It was a...
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The Takeout
Whole Foods looks like a ghost town after supplier shutters
Whole Foods? More like, um, only some of the food. Thank you, thank you, and for the love of God, please keep reading. Shoppers have reported that the Amazon-owned grocery giant has been woefully understocked of late, leaving huge gaps in the inventory at stores in D.C., New York, Richmond,...
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Which Religion Is Friendliest to the Idea of Aliens?
In the annals of most world religions, a quick walk-on from an alien would not, at least on the surface, seem particularly strange. Unusual occurrences are kind of key to the whole enterprise. And adherents of both camps—UFO-watchers and the religious—know what it means to believe in the face of...
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This Near-Mint 20-Year-Old Toyota Camry Is One Of The Best Cars I've Ever Bought
Let’s face it: Nobody really wants to own a Toyota Camry, but everyone wishes their automobile was as reliable and trouble-free as one.
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Here's February 2020's Xbox Live Games With Gold
February’s Xbox Live Games with Gold is a mix of racing, horror, and multiplayer. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription.
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