April 21, 2020
You Should Set Up Two-Step Verification on Your Nintendo Account Right Now
If you have a Nintendo account, now’s a good time to make sure that you have two-step verification set up on that account to keep it secure.
Deals
How to Preorder the iPhone SE for $200 off
Apple’s upcoming second-generation iPhone SE is available for preorder from several online retailers, but if you’re a Verizon or AT&T customer and your account is eligible for an upgrade, Walmart’s preorder deal can save you half the price of the device.
Windows
Get Bing Wallpapers for Your Windows Desktop With These Apps
Say what you will about Bing as a search engine, but it does have some gorgeous wallpapers that make the entire experience almost worth it. There are plenty of websites you can use to see the pretty pictures Microsoft posts to Bing daily, and Microsoft even offers its own tool...
garden
How to Compost in Your Apartment
As part of our new pandemic preparedness lifestyle, many of us have turned to gardening, to the point there are now widespread seed shortages. Given that seeds also need nutrient-rich soil to grow in, you might be wondering about how to turn your food scraps into compost. After all, who...
Tiny Hacks
Deglaze Your Pan After Cooking Bacon
Deglazing a pan after searing is an obvious, almost reflexive part of cooking a steak or a pork chop, but it’s not so common when frying bacon. But like chops and steaks, bacon is just a piece of meat, and deglazing—aka scraping all those delicious browned bits up with the...
Android
How to Get Better-Looking Screenshots on Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
By default, your Samsung Galaxy smartphone saves screenshots as crappier .JPEG images. Nothing against the good ol’ JPEG, especially if you need to save as much space on your device as possible. They just don’t look as good as the alternative that (almost) every other Android device uses as a...
Shopping
Get Notified When a Grocery Pickup Slot Is Available
The last time I got groceries, it only happened after a solid seven days of refreshing my cart periodically, sometimes constantly, in order to secure a delivery window. A new web-based tool could make the process a lot less painful for you, provided you live in an area where curbside...
Coronavirus Roundtable
This Is the Week We All Try to Find Someone to Blame
Each week in this crisis seems to have a theme to it. There was the week in early March when many of us experienced lockdown for the first time, an innocent week of home workouts and sourdough loaves and hope that this would all blow over pretty quickly. Just a...
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Tuesday's Best Deals:
Cyberpunk 2077
, Vizio P-Series TVs, Forever 21 Flash Sale, Aukey Dual Dash Cam, and More
A Cyberpunk 2077 pre-order discount on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, a price slash on Vizio P-Series 65" and 75" TVs, a Forever 21 flash sale, and an Aukey dual dash cam round out Tuesday’s best deals.
Jalopnik
Let's Chat About How Weird This Research Boat Is
I don’t spend much time thinking about boats or marine research these days, as I gave up on the marine biologist dream when I was 9 years old and found out the plesiosaur was extinct. But when I run across a boat as weird as the RP FLIP, as happened...
Jalopnik
The 2021 Audi A3 Has Hyundai To Thank
We were all so excited back in 2013 that the Audi A3 sedan was coming to America, that we made peace with the smallest Audi sedan getting the least styling. The 2021 Audi A3, though, finally looks like an interesting car, and I think we can thank Hyundai for it.
Gizmodo
Apple May Release a Whole Bunch of New (and Some Unusual) Products This Year
I fondly remember the days when Apple events were packed with surprises (and “one more thing”), but those are long, long gone. The leaks are now rolling out earlier—and with more detail—then ever before, with a slate of new products reportedly on deck for this fall.
Jalopnik
How The Oil Market Got So Messed Up
We need to explain how the oil market crashed so hard yesterday, car output is expected to plummet this year and Daimler and Volvo are busy partnering up over fuel-cell tech. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 21, 2020.
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