We’re all used to skimming past the boring parts of a reading assignment or a web article. But when researchers from RMIT University in Australia printed information in a weird, hard-to-read font, they found that people were more likely to remember what they read.
Networking can be a little confusing, especially when something you’ve done (or not done) doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever. You set up a new cable modem and wireless router, and have worse speeds than you did than when you used your older gear. You wire your house with gigabit Ethernet, only to watch your…
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We are scratching our collective heads as to how the Windows 10 October Update ever made it past Microsoft’s QA teams. According to numerous reports, something about the update could delete the contents of your Windows 10 user folders—you know, your documents, photos, music, videos, et cetera.
Have people told you that you’re intimidating and you just don’t know why? You may be giving off signals that say “don’t mess with me” without realizing it.
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Happy weekend, everyone, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re making our first ever reader-suggested cocktail, and it’s a good one.
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In a recent blog post titled “Hardening macOS,” Ricard Bejarano offers an extensive list of settings you can tweak to make macOS as secure as possible. It’s a comprehensive list of tasks—and we love it—but it’s important that you understand the “why” behind his recommendations, too. Here are a few of his top tips and…
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Your babysitter just arrived and you have seven minutes before you must head out to catch your show/make it to your meeting/watch your buddy walk down the aisle. You try to remember everything they might need to know for the next several hours of caring for your offspring, but you’re blanking, and your little one…
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Move over, Pluto: There’s a new dwarf planet in our solar system, and its name is the Goblin.
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When I’m in another city and I want to see what neighborhoods to wander, I crack open Foursquare. Some people use Yelp, some look for the brown tinted areas on Google Maps. My friend Henry uses Pokémon Go.
Setting the table for your dinner party may seem like the job you give to eager guests who insist on helping, but it should be done with care and precision. Sure, you could drop a cup full of plastic forks on the table, but is that really living?
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Due to the popularity of a certain sock puppet in the 80s, lamb chops seem to be the cut of young sheep that gets the most play. Lamb steaks, however, are definitely worth your time and, when cooked sous-vide, pretty much impossible to mess up.
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We’re deadlifting this month, and I’d love to hear how it’s going for everyone so far. (I did one workout already, and will try to get in two next week.) But if you’re new to this, or if you find the move intimidating, we have some suggestions for how to prepare.
When I was a kid, birthday cakes had simple adornments: some frosting, candles and maybe the guest of honor’s name handwritten in red food dye No. 3. But times have changed. Nowadays, it seems that no child’s party is complete without a sugar-filled masterpiece in the form of a shimmery unicorn head or a Lightning…
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Microsoft’s big October update for Windows 10 is here. If Microsoft hasn’t rolled it out to your Windows machine yet, you can force a manual update by simply clicking on your Start button, typing in the word “check,” and selecting the “check for updates” option. Click on the gray “Check for updates” box under Windows…
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Thanksgiving Planning Season is officially upon is, and when you’re coordinating a huge meal, every little bit of advance prep counts. I wouldn’t start brining that turkey just yet, but it’s never too early to stock your freezer with pie dough.
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The midterm elections are only a few weeks off, and if ever there’s a time to participate in the electoral process, it’s now. But as of November 2016, only 70 percent of U.S. citizens over age 18 were registered to vote, which means that more than 65 million people who are eligible to register have not done so.
Around 500 pieces of legislation related to voting have been implemented by state legislatures since the 2016 presidential election, ProPublica reports. And in some states, understanding the changes could be the difference between getting to vote and being turned away at the polls.