Now Instagram Is Down Too
If you just tried to open Instagram on your phone or computer, only to find that nothing would load, don’t worry: It’s not your wifi, nor is Verizon experiencing another outage. The fault instead lies with Meta, as Instagram is currently down. That’s according to Downdetector, owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis, which shows […]
Where to Stream Every Nominated Movie Before the 2026 Oscars
We may earn a commission from links on this page. It’s Oscar season! By which I mean, it’s that time of year when movie dorks are in a rush to catch up on as many Oscar-nominated films as is feasible before the awards ceremony kicks off—which, this year, will be on March 15 on ABC. […]
Six Ways to Use Staging Psychology to Sell Your House
Selling a house is one of the largest transactions most of us will ever make. Considering how much you’ve invested in the place in terms of both money and sweat equity, it’s natural to want to get as much profit from the sale as possible. One strategy to maximize profits that most real estate professionals […]
If You’ve Installed Any of These 17 Browser Extensions, Delete Them Now
Another wave of malicious browser extensions capable of tracking user activity and compromising privacy have been found across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, some of which may have been active for up to five years. The campaign, known as GhostPoster, was identified by Koi Security in December and included 17 Firefox add-ons designed to monitor users’ […]
Controversial “Climate Risk Scores” Keep Rising—And It’s Making a Major Dent on Investor Profits in Major Markets
Extreme weather is increasingly raining down on real estate transactions, with insurers and lenders kicking up storms and killing deals if a new metric—a climate disaster score—doesn’t offer a sunny […]
Travel Trends Are Shifting—Here’s How It’s Impacting the Short-Term Rental Market
Every few years, travel quietly changes its personality. Not in a dramatic, sky-is-falling kind of way. More like when you show up at your favorite restaurant and realize they raised […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Apple to have two different releases of Siri and Apple Intelligence, powered by Google Gemini…
These Bose Open Earbuds Are More Than Half Off Right Now
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds don’t block out the world—they sit just outside your ears and let everything in. Traffic noise, conversations, the doorbell—all of it stays audible while your music plays alongside it. […]
Spotify’s ‘Prompted Playlist’ Feature Is Finally Coming to the US
Last month, Spotify announced “Prompted Playlist,” a new feature the company claimed let users “steer the algorithm.” This was a bold—if not vague—claim, to be sure, but it was backed by everyone’s favorite tech trend of the last three years: AI. The pitch was that Spotify would let subscribers use the company’s AI models to […]
Fitness Culture Has a Hyper-Personalization Problem
The latest craze in the fitness world—from gym culture, to nutrition planning, to recovery protocols— is hyper-personalized optimization. But is there really a benefit to at-home microbiome tests that reveal the optimal diet for your gut bacteria? How about a device that tells you whether you’re burning carbs or fat with each breath? Personalized fitness […]
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Does Measles Cure Cancer?
The totals are in for 2025, and it’s been a great year for measles. According to the CDC, the number of cases of the disease identified in the US has risen from 285 in 2024 to 2,144 in 2025, the highest number of measles cases since 1990. We’ve already seen at least 171 measles cases […]
Why I’m Buying Large Multifamily in 2026 (Commercial Real Estate Outlook)
We’re always talking about residential real estate. But what about that “other” market, the one worth $24 trillion? It’s no secret that commercial real estate has had one of its […]
New GoogleBot: Google Messages
Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher “used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages,” Google wrote.
Google Search Makes Recipe Results More Publisher Friendly
A few weeks ago, we covered how damaging the Google Search results were for recipe publishers and bloggers. It was nicknamed Frankenstein recipes because it would take pieces of these recipes from bloggers, mash them together and ruin them, all while also mentioning the brand name – hurting the brand.
OpenAI To Charge Based On Ad View Impressions, Not Clicks
As you know, OpenAI will soon show ads on ChatGPT, but now we are hearing that those ads will be charged on a pay-per-view, impression-based model, not a click-based, cost-per-click model.
