How Much Recovery Do You Need Between Workouts?

If you work out hard on a Monday, you’ll be a bit fatigued on Tuesday. You can still go to the gym, but your performance may suffer a little. That prospect may leave you wondering if you should stay out of the gym until you’re fully recovered, or ho…

How to Prevent Ring from Sharing Your Data with Marketing Companies

Ring home security devices are supposed to help keep your family and home safe, but it turns out the company uses its products to sell your personal data to third-party advertisers and marketers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently pub…

Get Your Real ID Driver's License Now

Got your driver’s license nearby? Check to see if it has either a gold or black star in the upper-right-hand corner (if you’re in California, your star will be inside the outline of a bear). Mine does, because I got my most recent driver’s license …

Update This WordPress Plugin to Prevent a Site-Hijacking Attack

I use WordPress to power my mighty little corner on the internet, and I confess, I’ve been lazy about keeping my various plugins and themes updated. My site is pretty basic, so the thought never came to mind. However, I urge you to visit your WordPr…

This Is the Easiest Way to Crush Whole Tomatoes

Most recipes featuring canned tomatoes will have you squash them with a wooden spoon against the side of your pot. It’s a simple enough motion, but depending on the curvature of your spoon and the stubbornness of your tomato, it can send the whole f…

What to Take on a Cruise in Case of Emergency

I’ve been on something like six cruises at this point in my life, and at least two of them have included what you might call “emergency medical situations.” There was one sailing in which the ship detoured to the nearest port of call to drop off a p…

Change Your Screen to Grayscale to Combat Phone Addiction

If you find that it’s hard to look away from your phone, there’s a good reason for that: it was designed that way. A few years ago, former Design Ethicist at Google and founder of the non-profit Time Well Spent Tristan Harris made the rounds, talkin…

How to Stay Warm Without Raising Your Heating Bill

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but it’s February and all the charm of the cold is long gone. Since there’s still at least one more month of winter weather, here are some tips for how to stay warm without raising the thermostat.Read more...

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How to Get Rid of Android's Most Annoying Malware: xHelper

xHelper is the gift that keeps on giving. And by gift, I mean “Android malware;” and by giving, I mean “opening up your system to all sorts of unpleasant attacks.” Like that creature from the Alien movies, the primary goal of xHelper is to persist—i…

What's Open and Closed on President's Day 2020

Tomorrow is President’s Day. It’s a federal holiday, which means a lot of people are off work, it also means a lot of places that are typically open on Mondays are closed. Read more...

Amtrak Tickets Are Buy One Get One Free This Weekend

Train travel can be a relaxing, low-stress way to get around the country while also catching some of it out your window during your journey.Read more...

Stop Paying for YouTube TV Through Apple's App Store

If you’re paying for your YouTube TV subscription through Apple’s App Store, now’s the time to switch your payment method.Read more...

Get a Group Fitness Experience on Your Own With These Apps

Fitness classes can be motivating in a way that exercising by yourself is not. Somebody’s pushing you to go the distance, to do that next rep, and with luck they’ll drown out the part of your brain that’s tempting you to go home and have dinner alre…

Check Chrome and Remove Any of These 70+ Malware Extensions

Another day, another batch of crappy Chrome extensions that you shouldn’t be using. Once again, Google has identified a number of bad actors its Chrome Web Store and given them the boot—but that doesn’t automatically remove these malware extensions …

Why Your 'Check Engine' Light Is On

Driving a car is one of those things in life that works best when you don’t have to worry about how everything works and comes together. You have enough to pay attention to on the road without having to worry about what’s going on under the hood.…

What to Do When Your Kid Has Trouble Making Friends

Making friends doesn’t come naturally to all of us—or to our kids. Or sometimes, the making part isn’t as challenging as the keeping part. But it’s heartbreaking to think our kids might be lonely or excluded from their peers, particularly at school.…

Use This Southwest Hack to Switch to a Less-Miserable Flight

Every budget traveler knows a particular flavor of regret: that moment when you’re standing in the security line at 5 a.m., cursing yourself for picking the cheapest flight on the schedule.Read more...

How to Outsmart Your Hotel Room TV and Use Its HDMI Ports for Anything You Want

Hotels can be stingy about what guests are allowed to do with their TVs. For example, if you try to plug your own device into your room’s TV to watch your own content, odds are good that are nothing will happen. Hotel TVs are usually plugged into ex…

Buy Yourself a Valentine's Day Gift

Last Valentine’s Day, I bought myself a box of chocolate truffles—not the cheapo stuff you can grab at any grocery store, but the locally made, high-quality confectionary where you pick out exactly which truffles you want and they wrap a gold ribbon…

Send Us All Your Questions on Habits

Hello, Upgrade listeners! We’re speaking next week with behavior change expert BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, for an upcoming episode. So we want to know: what are some habits that you are trying to make or…