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Colon cancer shown in abdominal X-ray in red, blue, and green

Colon cancer cases in younger generations are rising. When should you get screened?

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A person using the Apple Notes app on an iPhone.

Write these down: the best note-taking apps for your phone

Person on a New York City subway train texting on their phone.

7 secure messaging apps you should be using

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A man with short, brown hair, wearing a white t-shirt and hanging a white cabinet door in a white kitchen.

A simple guide to hanging cabinet doors

By Jean Levasseur

Start your garden early with the help of the best seedling starter trays.

The best seedling starter trays

By Timothy Dale

A man sitting in a cubicle, frustrated with a slow computer. He's probably wondering, "Why is my computer so slow?"

5 easy ways to troubleshoot a slow computer

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The best Bissell carpet cleaners

By Terri Williams

Hand holding a pen placing sticky note on planner, a good way to track your period without an app.

How to track your own period—without an app

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

An Elgato Stream Deck under a wall-mounted TV, in a room with blue lighting.

7 ways to use the Elgato Stream Deck beyond livestreaming

Yellow, red, and white roses left at a memorial for the victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting. A white sign behind the bouquets says "as a community we grieve."

How to cope with collective grief—and even turn it into action

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

4 reasons you should be using WhatsApp Web

A set of hand soaps and shampoo bars over organic cotton covers and other wooden-made toiletries.

Travel more sustainably with a DIY zero-waste toiletry kit

By Alisha McDarris

Anycubic 3D Printer deal at Amazon

Get up to 50% off ANYCUBIC 3D printers at Amazon right now

By Stan Horaczek

Beech mushrooms growing on a substrate against a gold background

How to use the power of mushrooms to improve your life

By Julia Craven

Person cleaning the screen of a laptop with a cloth as part of their digital spring cleaning.

A complete guide to digital spring cleaning

A cedar DIY planter box on the concrete front steps of a gray house with a red door.

Liven up your yard by building this cedar planter box

By Jean Levasseur

Screenshot of AppCleaner on MacOS deleting apps.

This is how to completely delete apps and any residual data off your Mac

best paint spray gun

The best paint spray guns

By PopSci Commerce Team

Person putting Chromebook into a bag.

You should back up your Chromebook. Here’s how.

5G wifi router sitting on a home counter.

Read this before setting up a 5G WiFi network at home

Red strength test with different tiers of password security against a cyan background.

The Opt Out: Stop choosing bad passwords already

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A black backpack on a weathered wooden bench in the forest, with a silver metal water bottle next to it.

10 time-tested essentials that can help you survive your next hiking trip

By Alisha McDarris

A person on a laptop playing with Craiyon, one of many free AI tools.

The best free AI tools you can try right now

A person pressing buttons on a microwave oven.

How to get more lemon juice, and 8 other genius microwave hacks

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

An orange HomePod Mini device sits on a wooden desk right next to a laptop, a keyboard, and an external hard drive.

You can now use your HomePod Mini as an indoor weather station

A person holding a shiny, clean showerhead, and you can see their reflection in it.

Use citric acid to clean your dishwasher and other gross household items

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

An older person with short brown hair wearing blue rubber gloves and cleaning a window with a yellow rag.

3 early spring cleaning ideas to get you out of hibernation mode

Side-by-side of man wearing black hoodie and surveillance camera footage of him walking with LED lights blinding face

A simple DIY hoodie can fool security cameras

A man in a blue plaid shirt, jeans, and white socks using a cordless vacuum to clean a tile kitchen floor near a large window.

A bare minimum guide to spring cleaning

By Alexandra Frost

A person using Shapr3D to design a nightstand on an iPad.

Shapr3D can make woodworking easier—here are 5 tips to get started

By Jean Levasseur

A man wearing sunglasses and a blue plaid shirt sitting in a dark room using an Apple Macbook laptop.

How to check if your computer has been tampered with

Close up to a screen showing the home page of ChatGPT

6 ways ChatGPT is actually useful right now

How to keep using two-factor authentication on Twitter for free

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

The best cordless drills of 2024 on a plain white background.

The best cordless drills

By Brandt Ranj, Tony Carrick

Person sitting down with a mug on one hand and the other typing on an a windows computer

How to uninstall a bunch of Windows apps at once

Guests at Filmmaker's Trivia Night during the 2021 Tribeca Festival at Battery Park on June 14, 2021 in New York City.

5 ways to get better at trivia, according to a Jeopardy! contestant

Screenshot of the mobile version of the Microsoft Edge browser.

5 ways to translate websites on your phone

A black desk with a vertical monitor setup, in addition to a horizontal monitor, with both screens backlit with white light.

How a vertical monitor setup will change your life

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A dark wooden bat house high up on the side of a gray two-story house.

Benefit your neighborhood bats with this DIY bat house

By Jean Levasseur

A large group of red and orange jellyfish floating in blue water.

A jellyfish sting treatment that actually works

By Sara Chodosh

Close up to a white Xbox controller on a black table.

You should try connecting a keyboard and mouse to your Xbox

The Windows 11 Start menu against a black background, showing a Bing search for "hot sauce recipe."

How to remove Bing results from your Windows Start menu

It’s your last chance to save your Internet Explorer bookmarks

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Screenshot of Joplin's app menu to import notes from Evernote.

Evernote is getting more expensive—here’s how to move to another app

Close up to the Twitter app icon on the screen of an iPhone

6 Twitter alternatives, in case you’re looking

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A bird's-eye view of FedExField in Maryland hosting the Army-Navy game during the day, surrounded by a parking lot full of cars.

How to watch the Super Bowl, with or without cable

By John Kennedy

Screenshot of Safari's translation tool.

How to translate any website from your browser

Two light-colored live edge DIY beer flight boards with four glasses each, on a darker wood surface in front of a beige wall.

Serve any brew in style with this DIY beer flight board

By Jean Levasseur

A flock of chickens, including five hens and rooster, peck at a backyard

6 things to know before deciding to raise backyard chickens

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A PS5 on a wooden desk with a DualSense controller, a keyboard, and a mouse nearby.

Improve your PS5 experience with a keyboard and mouse

Super Bowl-qualifying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts throws a perfect football spiral

Throwing the perfect football spiral is a feat in science

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A do not disturb sign on a wooden door. It's the analog way to ensure you have notifications silenced.

How to get your iPhone to stop telling people you’ve silenced notifications

By John Kennedy

A blonde person leaning over to water a potted houseplant near a window.

How to water your plants less but still keep them happy

By Ellen Airhart

A person pointing a TV remote at a TV with Netflix on the screen. It's possible they're sharing a Netflix account with someone else.

How to share streaming service logins while you still can

close up on hands typing on laptop keyboard

How to snooze your browser tabs

art photograph of a tiny plastic person sweeping what appears to be toothpaste out of a giant tube that says "your data".

The Opt Out: The case against editing your ad settings

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A DIY computer desk made out of a wooden door and some metal legs, with a dual-monitor computer and other devices on top of it.

Build your own desk with custom features like USB ports and biometrics

By Whitson Gordon

Old batteries in a rectangle formation waiting to be recycled.

It’s time to recycle all those dead batteries

By Tamara Palmer

Close up to a stack of AA batteries

How to turn AAA batteries into AAs

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Revive your old computer by turning it into a Chromebook

What to do when your fishing lure hooks a bird, otter—or gator

What to do when your fishing lure hooks a bird, otter—or gator

By Joe Cermele/Field & Stream

person hiking with backpack and hiking sticks

What to know before you go on your first multi-day hike

By Alisha McDarris

Chilis in a bowl against a black background, perfect for a spicy hot sauce recipe.

Experiment with spice by making this homemade hot sauce

A person standing over a board, using a circular saw to rip it to width, hopefully considering woodworking safety.

The best safety advice for any beginner woodworker

By Jean Levasseur