Saturday's Best Deals: Philips OneBlade, Eddie Bauer, Indie Beauty, and More

A Philips OneBlade Face+Body deal, a discounted GPS running watch from Garmin, and an Eddie Bauer Gold Box lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.

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My Dad Was A Retired Cop Who Died By Suicide. Here’s What I Want You To Know.

My family never realized that he, like many other police officers, was struggling with his mental health.

Giuliani Says He Won’t Testify Before House Without Trump’s OK

A House Intel Committee member says Giuliani could be the best witness because he “doesn’t know what he shouldn’t say.”

Hitting the Books: Teaching AI to sing slime mold serenades

Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and…

Dark Mode Is for Suckers

Dark mode is everywhere. Apple’s newly released iOS 13? Dark mode. Android 10? Dark mode. Windows 10, macOS Mojave, Chrome, Firefox, Gmail, and Slack—blessed, healing dark mode. It’s the must-have feature for the dim days of 2019, its spread eliciting a collective gasp of ecstasy at every new iteration as if black…

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‘Hoping For A Miracle’: Apocalyptic Scene Weeks After Dorian Swallowed Grand Bahama

Residents of this island of 50,000 people have met total devastation with strength and resilience.

FEC Chair Uses Twitter To Bust GOP Blockade On Foreign Influence Information

“I always thought these anti-regulatory people liked the First Amendment well enough,” Ellen Weintraub zinged.

The Morning After: SpaceX builds a Starship

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to your weekend! Keep an eye out for the SpaceX live stream later today, but first, we’ll recap notable news from this week, like all of the Alexa-connected stuff Amazon unveiled. Finally, Friday’s news…

Tech that helped me fall back in love with birdwatching

A few months ago a friend of mine mentioned on Twitter she was getting into birding. And I thought, “I used to love birdwatching when I was little!” I’d go out and wander around with my little Golden Nature Guide and record sightings of the avians th…

Delicate wash cycles are spewing microfibers into the environment

If you want to help protect the environment, stop using the ‘delicate wash’ cycle on your washing machine, a new study suggests. Researchers with Newcastle University found the delicate wash cycle offered on most washing machines results in more plastic microfibers than other cycle options. These microfibers are flushed out of the machine in the water, ultimately entering the environment. … Continue reading