Android: There are a lot of 'in case of emergency' SOS apps on the Play Store, but the onus is on user to hit a button or tap something. Instead, SafeSpot turns your Android into a virtual dead man's switch, sending out an SOS text message if you let go of your screen.
    
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If a door is difficult to shut, chances are that the problem is in the hinges. And surprisingly, it's easy to fix this with some toothpicks placed at the right spots, as Apartment Therapy shows in its quick guide.
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Chrome/Firefox: Want to find out how someone unfriends you on Facebook? One way is to use Social Fixer, but that extension has a lot of other features and doesn't include a notification pop-up. For a simple alert, you need Unfriend Notify for Facebook.
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Whether you just got fired, laid off, or you quit your job in a blaze of glory, being unemployed usually sucks. From the government paperwork to reworking your resume, here's your survival guide to keep yourself sane, productive, and financially afloat when you're unemployed.
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Sometimes, your jar of honey will get crystals forming at the sides because it hasn't been closed properly and moisture's gone into the jar. But don't worry, it's not ruined! The One Pot Chef has an easy way to fix that.
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It's easy to lose track of ingredients and items in your kitchen, especially those that look similar (hello baking soda and baking powder), so Food52's Amanda Hesser suggests keeping a wet-erase marker in your kitchen and always keep labelling them, and add dates too.
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Winter is back, and it's colder than ever. Coupled with snow, dry air, sickness, and everything else that comes with winter, it's shaping up to be pretty rough. Here are 10 ways to keep yourself sane during this bleak season.
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You know what sucks about cake? Taking the time to make it, waiting for it to bake, and cleaning all the dishes afterwards. But you know what's great? Cake. Cake is great. So what if you could make it and eliminate all those problems? You'd have this recipe.
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Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wonderful!
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According to a Reuters news service story posted online early Sunday, Target and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year,.
It's important to build and maintain relationships in your personal and professional lives, but it's hard to keep doing that if you're an introvert. If you're struggling with deciding which events to attend and skip, create a socialization quota.
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We talked earlier in the week about what you should go over to prepare for a job interview. How much of your time should you invest in practicing for your interview, though?
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If you're exercising, commuting, or just killing a little time, a good podcast can be a great companion. The best ones are informative, entertaining, useful, or at least just fun to watch or listen to. Let's talk about which ones are the best, and why you should subscribe to them.
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What we thought was getting worse just keeps getting worser: This morning we heard that the data breach at Target had hit 70 million customers, instead of the 40 million originally reported by the company. And now that number is not only possibly up to 110 million, but it could include people who didn’t even shop during the holidays, which is when Target said the leak happened.
In the early days Target confirmed last month that “unauthorized access to Target payment card data” at its retail locations lasted from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15 and hit around 40 million shoppers.
But now the New York Times is reporting that the company’s investigation is showing that there was another store of data that was collected over time on 70 million people. That has apparently been hacked as well.
There could be some overlap between those customers and the ones who were hit during the holiday season. It’s worth pointing out though that if you’ve shopped at Target outside that holiday period, you could also be at risk.
“I know that it is frustrating for our guests to learn that this information was taken, and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this,” Gregg Steinhafel, the Target chief executive, said in a statement.
And this might not be the worst yet, either. A Target spokeswoman says that the number of exposed customers could still grow.
Another reminder: Be extra wary of any emails purporting to be from Target asking for information like your Social Security number. That’s an easy way for your identity to get stolen, when combined with the other information potentially involved in the data breach.
Target Breach Affected Up to 110 Million Customers [New York Times]
Kim received a solicitation in the mail from Anthem BlueCross BlueShield offering her the opportunity to apply for guaranteed health insurance coverage. This plan offers appealing benefits like no copay for routine screening tests or immunizations. Sounds great! Except it’s not.
There’s nothing factually inaccurate about this letter. It just omits important information. Anthem does sell policies that have these features, and they do accept people who have been sick before in their lives. The thing is, these great benefits are the bare minimum benefits that all insurance plans have to have under the Affordable Care Act.
It’s a bit like advertising a car by bragging that it has tires and a windshield. Yes, that’s true, and you could advertise a car by bragging that these are great features that your vehicle has, but everyone knows that cars, by definition, have to include those things. Not everyone knows what health insurance plans are supposed to include. “Blue Cross Blue Shield is taking advantage of Obamacare ignorance,” Kim wrote to Consumerist when she sent us a copy of the letter.
Here’s what she received:
There’s nothing incorrect about any of the things that this letter says. It’s just that there are a few things missing. First, that (except for access to the BlueCross BlueShield network) these are all things that health insurance plans are now legally required to have.
Second, it encourages Kim to apply directly to Anthem, not to go through her state’s health insurance portal or Healthcare.gov. She lives in Connecticut, for example, where residents can shop for insurance through Access Health CT. Applying through the marketplace is the only way to get subsidies to help pay for insurance if you’re eligible. The portal also has an important feature that going right to Anthem doesn’t: competitors. Anthem sells insurance through Connecticut’s exchange, but so do several other companies.
If you’re looking to learn more about the current health insurance landscape in general Affordable Care Act in particular, check out our sibling site, Consumer Reports’ Health Law Helper.
FURTHER READING:
What are my preventive care benefits? [Healthcare.gov]
Watch out for marketplace website lookalikes [Consumer Reports]
What insurers aren’t telling you about your canceled health plan [Consumer Reports]
Why should a childless man have to buy maternity coverage? [Consumer Reports]
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What looks like an X-ray of a hand is actually the remains of a star that exploded 17,000 light-years away.
