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Two people, silhouetted, looking up at a clear night sky.

Catch 5 planets (including Uranus) in an ultra-rare planetary alignment

By Briley Lewis

A Mount Sinai ambulance with its lights on in New York City.

These smartphone settings could save your life

By John Kennedy

A white clothes dryer with a clean dryer vent behind a white curtain, in front of a tall window with sunlight shining through.

How to clean your dryer vent so it doesn’t catch on fire

By John Kennedy

A pile of pills of various shapes and colors on an orange background. Some of these may be allergy medications.

The right way to use seasonal allergy medications

By Kate Baggaley

a person plugs in a usb drive

Don’t plug in mysterious USB drives

By Harry Guinness

A Canada goose opening its mouth and spreading its wings to protect its nest and its mate behind it at the edge of a marshy area.

Read this if you’re too scared to walk past a goose

By Alisha McDarris

A Macbook laptop on a white desk with the browser notifications settings visible for Google Chrome.

How to block or allow browser notifications from any website

A Black person reaching their hands into a zeer pot—a type of DIY refrigerator—full of green beans, tomatoes, and other produce.

The coolest way to keep food cold without electricity

By Ilana E. Strauss

A man in a blue t-shirt and jeans working with a DIY router sled in a woodshop.

Build your own router sled to flatten wood without buying big, expensive tools

By Jean Levasseur

Foods that make you feel full on a beige background, including kale, raspberry, whole wheat pasta, salmon, green apple, steak, crackers, chocolates, popcorn, pink frosted donut, peas in a pod, and a basil leaf

How to feel full just by eating good food

By Betsy Andrews/Saveur

A Black woman with orange, braided hair sitting in front of a silver Surface laptop, possibly using Microsoft PowerToys.

Paste text without ugly formatting, and other ways Microsoft’s PowerToys can help you

By David Nield, Justin Pot

A person holding an unlocked iPhone, with apps on the screen.

5 ways you can use the iPhone Shortcuts app to improve your life

Black Mercedes Benz sedan hydroplaning in rain when speeding down highway

A driver’s guide to hydroplaning and how to handle it

By Tony Markovich/The Drive

Two hands with fingerless gloves on a laptop with Microsoft Word open.

10 Microsoft Word tips you need to learn right now

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Screenshot of an image showing a cat opened on macOS with overlayed and selected text.

How to copy text from an image on any device

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.

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.

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