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The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Is Tubi Secretly the Best Streaming Service?
There's a bit of everything going on this week on the young people's Internet, from popular YouTubers vying to date a robot, to the surprisingly profitable enterprise of smuggling Fruit Roll-Ups acros...
Laya's Horizon on Netflix makes flying both exhilarating and soothing
The latest game release on Netflix manages to capture the thrill of flying -- while somehow also turning it into something chill.Laya's Horizon is the newest game from Snowman, the studio best known f...
Daily Crunch: Don't post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle
To get a roundup of TechCrunch's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Happy Monday Crunch! There's just one month left to submit nominatio...
How to Spot Signs of Burnout Culture Before You Accept a Job
It's normal to feel overtaxed by your job once in a while, but when that feeling becomes persistent no matter what you do to pull back or redirect your efforts, you may be experiencing burnout--and th...
DocuSign could be suffering from a pandemic growth hangover
During the early days of the pandemic, I had to have a document notarized. I met the notary at my local bank office. She took my document and my ID through a crack in the door. She looked it over as I...
The shape of Kirby
The line for the "Many Dimensions of Kirby" panel at GDC was so long that it stretched from the doors of the conference room, wrapped around the third floor of the main hall of the Moscone Center, and...
TikTok's teenage filter has us confronting our own mortality
People on TikTok are getting emotional over an AR filter that makes you look like a teenager. Juxtaposed one beside the other, the filter shows you as you are, and then a version of you that has perfe...
This tool lets you see how much time and money is wasted commuting
Yet another annual traffic survey has found London firmly in first place--or worst place, perhaps--for 2022. This time it's TomTom's data that shows the Big Smoke is hell on wheels, with an average tr...
Repairs That Aren't Actually Your Landlord's Responsibility
[photo1]There are a lot of laws that govern the rights you have when you're renting your home, but landlords are also pretty well-protected. You might think that anything that goes on in your apartmen...
The Last of Us episode 5 asks: What if prestige TV shows had boss monsters?
HBO's "The Last of Us" season one
The Last of Us episode 5 asks: What if prestige TV shows had boss monsters?HBO's The Last of Us tries a little tenderness in a surp...What medieval attitudes tell us about our evolving views of sex
In the illuminating and entertaining blog Going Medieval, Eleanor Janega, a medievalist at the London School of Economics, upends prevalent misconceptions about medieval Europe. These misunderstanding...
Check These Spots in Your House for Hidden Mold
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When you clean your home, you probably have it down to some type of routine: Tidying up and wiping down set spots in each room. But if that's the case, it means that you might be missing s...
How to Tell If a Wall Is Drywall or Plaster
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Unless something goes wrong, or you're in the middle of a renovation project, it's pretty easy to ignore your walls. Sure, they're integral to the structure and layout of your home, but pl...