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How to stop videos from autoplaying
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How to stop videos from autoplaying

By David Nield

A stack of papers that would be hard to merge together if they were PDFs.
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How to combine PDF files for free without sketchy online software

By John Kennedy

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow
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The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

A man running shirtless on the side of a road in hot weather.
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Know the difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion. One can kill you quickly.

By Alisha McDarris

Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves
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Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves

By Francie Diep

Theo Gray's Mad Science book cover, showing Gray with a thick glove that's on fire.
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The Really Dangerous Book for Boys

By Mike Haney

5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern
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5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern

By Samantha Cole

Wind-Powered Record Player
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How to build a record player powered by wind

By Thom Leavy

A lawnmower, which you won't really need for a ground cover lawn, with a shovel and a broom for digging up your grass lawn.
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It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow

By Jean Feingold

An iPad Pro with a keyboard, on a windowsill surrounded by plants and bathed in sunlight.
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The best apps for iPad Pro connoisseurs: 10 essentials to download right now

By David Nield

Anthotype images on wooden table
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Spice up your art with turmeric, sunlight, and a 19th century photography technique

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Powerhouse tips to improve your favorite video call app
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Powerhouse tips to improve your favorite video call app

By David Nield

An Amazon Fire HD tablet on a wood floor.
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How to get any Android app on your Amazon Fire HD tablet, plus 8 other tips

By David Nield

A normal stream of water coming out of a sink faucet. A person is measuring the stream width with calipers.
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A pop-eyed visual guide to liquid flow rates

By Rob Cockerham

A pomeranian with glasses reads from an iPad
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Google Chrome’s Reading list will help you finally close some of those tabs

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Old printed photos scattered around a table.
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How to colorize your old black and white photos

By David Nield

Hands holding XBox controller in front of a large computer monitor
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How to stream your PC games to all your screens

By David Nield

A snake plant sitting in an open cardboard box, ready for shipping.
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How to ship your beloved houseplants across the country without killing them

By Ellen Airhart

Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin
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Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin

By Rose Pastore

Person working on Photoshop
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How to wipe metadata from any file

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Teal Yeti cooler and other travel gear on a blue background
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Eat and drink well on your road trip with these 5 pointers

By Alisha McDarris/Saveur

Videogame controllers
Console Gaming

Great online games to play with friends, even when you’re apart

By David Nield

person-holding-mask
COVID-19

How you and your family can cope with post-COVID anxiety

By Jean Levasseur

Phantom Limb
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Meet The Prosthetist Creating Custom-Made Insane Limbs

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A dirty, rusty grill outside on a brick patio.
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How to get your grill ready for summer

By Whitson Gordon

Make the most of your Apple AirTags with these tips and tricks
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Make the most of your Apple AirTags with these tips and tricks

By David Nield

scientist injecting turkey
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Thirteen science-backed ways to improve your Thanksgiving

By Sophie Bushwick

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver
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We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver

By Sophie Bushwick

Qubie Assembled
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How To Track The Lines At Your Polling Place

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A Mac laptop on a wooden table with Google Docs open in suggestion mode.
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The greatest Google Docs shortcut you’re probably not using

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Hands holding slime with crumbs over a keyboard
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This DIY slime can clean the grossest parts of your home and car

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Fitbit Alta HR
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How to choose the best fitness tracker for you

By David Nield

A person grimacing and holding their left shoulder with their right hand.
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Perfect posture doesn’t exist—but you can still improve yours

By Eleanor Cummins

A woman with curly, dirty blonde hair sitting in front of a gray laptop with her hands in the air in an act of confusion or frustration.
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I used Google Tasks to turn my Gmail inbox into a to-do list, and now nobody can stop me

By John Kennedy

Phone apps
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Protect your digital footprint by erasing your phone tracks

By David Nield

person's hand with silver rings
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Go full silver alchemist and clean your jewelry with science

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Computer on a white desk with WeVideo editing platform on the screen
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These free video editing tools are so simple, anyone can use them

By Jean Levasseur

Person checking phone in a coffee house.
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The 7 best apps for sending money

By David Nield

One side of a reddish-brown brick building, with 15 windows arranged in a grid on the façade, each containing a separate window air conditioning unit.
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How to prevent your window AC unit from falling out, and other cool tips

By Lauren Leffer

13 toxic wild plants that look like food
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13 toxic wild plants that look like food

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

The Quadsaw Is A Tool That Makes Square-shaped Holes
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The Quadsaw Is A Tool That Makes Square-shaped Holes

By Xavier Harding

The Todoist app on an iPhone.
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How to set phone reminders for anything

By David Nield

A blonde woman in an office, taking part in a video conference call on her laptop.
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How to use Google Meet’s newest features

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything
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Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything

By Andrew Rosenblum

comic book flip phone
DIY

Build A Keyless Car Unlocker Out of a Cellphone

By Dave Prochnow

Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH
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Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH

By Joey Carmichael

15 ways to be more secure online
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15 ways to be more secure online

By David Nield

Apple Watch on table
DIY

How to choose the right smartwatch for you

By David Nield

Webcam clipped on to a computer monitor
Computers

It’s time to upgrade your webcam

By David Nield

How To Build A Smart Home Sensor
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How To Build A Smart Home Sensor

By Dave Prochnow

Beer Can Camera
DIY

Turn Empty Beer Cans Into Sun-Tracking Cameras

By Dave Prochnow

A thermal lance made out of bacon cutting a steel pan in half.
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Bacon: the other white heat

By Theodore Gray

Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast
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Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast

By Jeremy S. Cook

A white mug full of hot coffee on a white saucer, surrounded by roasted coffee beans.
DIY

How a popcorn popper can help you roast coffee beans at home

By Alisha McDarris

Use these online office suites to get your work done anywhere
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Use these online office suites to get your work done anywhere

By David Nield

2011 Invention Awards: Dynamically Glare-Blocking LCD Sunglasses
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2011 Invention Awards: Dynamically Glare-Blocking LCD Sunglasses

By Elizabeth Svoboda

A frustrated woman sitting on the floor of a bathroom, resting her arm on the carpeted lid of a toilet.
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How to fix a moaning toilet

By John Kennedy

Two kids with blond and red hair sitting on a washer in a laundry room
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Yes, little kids should do chores. Here’s how to get them started.

By Jean Levasseur

An Amazon Echo, which will soon automatically connect with Amazon Sidewalk.
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If you’re worried about Amazon Sidewalk, here’s how to opt out

By David Nield

Super Moon rise over a valley
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How to photograph the moon like a pro

By Stan Horaczek

How to choose the perfect workout routine
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How to choose the perfect workout routine

By Harry Guinness

Simple Amazon Kindle tricks that’ll optimize your e-reading
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Simple Amazon Kindle tricks that’ll optimize your e-reading

By David Nield

Three homemade bubble lights, one blue, one red, and one green, over a small table and a chair.
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Liquid lamps

By Radiohole (Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman)

A person striking a block of plastic with a hammer, creating white lightning against a blue background.
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Gray Matter: Trap lightning in a block

By Theodore Gray

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