Cuffing season 2024 has begun—you’ve got a solid amount of time to woo someone into being your cold weather cuddler, holiday party date, or maybe-forever partner. Food can help. Once you’ve had a few restaurant or bar dates, you might decide they’re worthy of setting foot in your home for a meal. That’s a big move, and I’d like to help you not screw...

If you own an Anker portable battery, take note: Your battery may pose a fire hazard, and should be disposed of immediately. The company issued a recall notice for three of its batteries on Friday: Anker says some of the lithium ion batteries used in these models may be a fire risk due to a "manufacturing defect." Affected units can overheat, which...

It’s been at least a decade since your choice of operating system presented any real challenge to obtaining specific software or hardware, but smart technology has been slower to catch up. It's been much more common in recent years to discover that many devices worked with Android, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa—but not Apple Home. If you wanted...

Meta is behind a number of product categories and services, but at Meta Connect 2024, the company's annual developer's conference, don't expect to hear news specifically pertaining to apps like Facebook or Instagram. Instead, Meta says Connect is about the "technologies of the future," which means AR, VR, and AI. (All the acronyms.) Here's what we expect...

When most people talk credit scores, they’re talking about your general FICO score—the one lenders are most likely to use. FICO is tight-lipped about the formulas they use to calculate our scores, but we know the general categories they track and how important they are to that calculation. Here are those categories, and what you need to know about them.How...

If you haven’t already turned on your heat for the first time this year, you’ll probably have to do it soon. Before you do, you should give your radiators a good cleaning—and the easiest way to do it involves little more than a hair dryer.Clogged with dust, your radiator will have to work harder to warm your home (increasing your utility bills), and...