March 28, 2020
You Don't Need to Sanitize Your Groceries
Even if you’re following advice to stay home as much as you can, we all have to get food somehow, which means regular grocery trips or deliveries. If the idea of letting packages of food from The Outside into your home is nerve-wracking, it’s important to remember that while the risk of picking up the coronavirus from the exterior surfaces of your groceries is not zero, it is very low.
Streaming
How to Watch Elton John's Benefit Concert for Medical Workers Sunday Night
Sir Elon John may have paused his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour due to COVID-19, but you can still catch him perform this weekend from your living room.
Free Stuff
You Can Access Fender's Online Guitar Lessons For Free Right Now
If you’re using your time physical distancing to learn guitar, Fender is offering free guitar, bass, and ukulele lessons to the first 500,000 people to sign up for Fender Play. It’s a free trial, but you don’t have to handle over any payment details to get access, so you won’t...
Security
You Need to Lock Down Your Router's Remote Management Options
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: Unless you’re using a mesh router setup, which typically ties its configuration to an easy-to-use app and/or service, there’s no need for you to enable remote management on your router. The setting sounds great on paper—who wouldn’t want to access their...
College
Where to Take Free Online Classes While You’re Stuck at Home
If you’ve always wanted to go back to school, why not put your ongoing involuntary stay-at-home downtime to good use with a free online class? There are literally thousands of virtual university courses (known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs) and one-off videos to help you exercise your...
coronavirus
No, You Can't 'Just Visit' a Friend
Do not go to your friend’s house this week. Please. Not even if you and your friends are all young and healthy, not even if it’s “just one friend,” not even if “it’s OK if I get sick, that’s a chance I’m willing to take,” not even if “we’ll be...
Streaming
What's Coming to Prime Video in April 2020
April is just around the corner, and along with it will arrive dozens of new movies and television shows on Prime Video.
Deals
You Can Get a Refurbished iPhone for $119 Today
The online reseller Woot tends to hold generous sales on refurbished Apple devices, but today’s deal on refurbished iPhone 7, 8, XR, SX, and XS Max devices might be one of the best you’ll see for a while. Almost all of the available devices are on sale for hundreds of...
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Hundreds of Bottles of Toxic Beer Found Hidden Beneath Victorian-Era Staircase
Archaeologists in Leeds, England discovered more than 600 beer bottles at the site of an old Victorian brewery. Stacked neatly beneath a cellar staircase, the beer inside these 19th-century bottles contains dangerous concentrations of lead.
The Root
The Trump Administration Just Canceled an Order for 80,000 Ventilators to Haggle Over the Price
If there is a woman in your neighborhood who has ventilators, you might as well go on and get you one to bring to the hospital in case of an emergency because if you are waiting for the president of the United States or his bumbling band of yes-men disguised...
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Trump Threatens to 'Invoke "P"' After Finding Out How Much Ventilators Cost [Update: He Invoked P]
On Friday, Donald Trump—after weeks of pleas from governors, mayors, and state and local health officials over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—continued to toy around with whether he would invoke the Defense Production Act, which allows the federal government to command private businesses to work on projects critical to the security...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Is Too Chill To Tell You About
Face it: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an annoying game.
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Here's Why Cruise Ship Companies Aren't Included In The $2 Trillion Stimulus Package
The cruise ship industry, where outbreaks of covid-19 in Japan and California started, are (justifiably) hurting right now. Nobody is traveling, people are social distancing and that’s resulted in canceled trips and empty ships. But they’re not getting a cent of the economic stimulus package because their grand scheme of...
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