How to Survive Apple’s iOS 13 Update Blitz

I’m one of those people who must always run the most up-to-date version of anything I’m using. Apps? Games? Hardware? If a device or piece of software doesn’t have an auto-updater (and even if it does), I’m constantly checking to make sure it has the latest fixes, features, and security patches. It’s an obsession.

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Author: David Murphy

Enjoy These Vintage Booklets About Menstruation

Remember that day in fifth grade when they split up the boys and girls into separate classrooms? The way kids learn about how their bodies change in puberty has, itself, changed over the years. In my own experience, the school outsourced much of that job to a little booklet issued by a maxipad company.

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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker

So What Is a Coup, Anyway?

On Tuesday night, facing mounting pressure regarding an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats, President Trump tweeted that the inquiry was in fact a “coup.”

“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a coup…” he wrote. “… intended to…

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Author: Josh Ocampo

Why Your Apple Reminders Disappeared in iOS 13

Apple Reminders is in the process of getting a big overhaul this year. The new version is available now on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, and will arrive on macOS when the Catalina update hits this month. It looks better and adds new features that add useful depth, like the ability to create lists related to action items.

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Author: Mike Epstein

Why Am I So Tired All the Time Even When I Get Enough Sleep?

When you ask someone how they’re doing, if they don’t throw out the usual “I’m fine,” they’ll probably mention that they’re tired, or even exhausted. So what’s going on? Are we all actually that tired all the time? Have we just stopped sleeping? Though it’s different for every person, if you find that you do get what…

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Author: Melanie Pinola and Elizabeth Yuko