Along with hangovers and broken resolutions, the beginning of a new year means the rights to additional intellectual properties passing from their original owners, to you, the public—and 2024 is a particularly monumental year in that regard, considering it marks the entry into the public domain of one Mickey Mouse. Disney has fought zealously to […]

One of the biggest downfalls of e-readers is that highlighting and annotating may not be as easy or intuitive compared to a physical book. But Amazon aims to directly address those problems with the Kindle Scribe, its top-shelf e-reader. Right now, you can get the 16GB Kindle Scribe for $269.99 (originally $339.99) plus three free […]

Your microwave gets super dirty, but it can be easy to ignore since you just kind of shut the door when you’re not using it, hiding all the grease, splatter, and crumbs left in there. Out of sight might be out of mind, but it doesn’t translate to being out of the woods. Dirt can […]

If you imagine the steps involved in cleaning a toilet, you probably think of scrubbing the bowl, wiping down the exterior. But what about inside the toilet tank? Toilet tanks can be easy to overlook, because unless there’s something wrong—like a toilet that won’t stop running—there’s not much of a reason to lift the lid. […]

For the first time in almost 30 years, Microsoft is adding a new key to its keyboard layout. Microsoft announced the change in a short video showcasing what this new Copilot key might look like on a Windows PC keyboard. This is the first time Microsoft has added a new key to the keyboard since […]

If you bought a Pixel phone in the last couple years, you have a new security update to install. Google rolled out the January security patch Wednesday, Jan. 3, to supported Pixel smartphones, as well as the Pixel Tablet, including some useful bug fixes and important security patches. What’s in this latest Pixel update? First […]

My keyboard, perhaps like your keyboard, gets rather dirty. From working on it and traveling with it to eating food over its precious surface, the debris accumulates among its keys. And yet, I don’t have a compressed air canister or a keyboard cleaning kit on hand. To rectify this situation, I spent a little time […]

A new year means it’s time for a new you—that’s what I’m told, anyway. You’ve cleared your schedule, your motivation is at an all-time high, and now all you need is a plan for becoming a better version of yourself. And for some reason, the plan that a lot of people are choosing this year […]

The start of the new year is a perfect time to resolve to max out contributions to your retirement accounts before April. The sooner you can invest your IRA money, the more time it has to potentially grow through compounding. And consistency is key—even small, regular contributions add up over decades. You should work IRA […]

Buying a house is pretty much buying a lifetime of worry and anxiety: That collection of wood, metal, tile, and gypsum held together by the dark magic of physics is always plotting to ruin you. Aside from the routine maintenance that all houses require, there are always going to be expensive, shocking surprises like leaking […]

TikTok is unstoppable at producing alluring yet slightly grotesque food. Some of it is great. Most of it I just can’t unsee. I’ve lately stumbled upon the perversion of fondue as a “hot fondue pocket.” It looks like it should be enticing—a ladle of hot, melty fondue waterfalling into a hollowed out, 10-inch baguette pocket—but […]

You might think it’s counterintuitive to read a book about cleaning when you should be, you know, cleaning, but within these books (and there are many of them) you’ll find all kinds of cleaning methods, insights, and motivation to get the job done. You wouldn’t take on any other big task around the house without […]

Google is finally getting rid of cookies. That’s a weird statement to process, considering the company generated many of its billions with the help of internet cookies. But, nonetheless, it’s happening: The cookies are going in the trash, at least on Google’s part, in a wider effort to limit cross-site tracking on the internet. What […]

Any time you copy something on your Mac, it’s stored in an invisible place called the clipboard. Typically, you can confirm its existence in the clipboard by pasting it somewhere. But for a more technical approach, you can open Finder on your Mac, select the Edit menu, and click Show Clipboard to view what’s there.  […]