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Video-chatting is a little like chatting by Floo Powder (minus all the soot).

Bring Some Magic to Your Next Zoom Meeting With These Harry Potter Backgrounds

Video-chatting isn’t all that different than communicating via Floo Powder or portrait-hopping, right?

Protect your precious keyboard from whatever food residue is on your fingers.

Use This Mac Shortcut to Let Your Keyboard Do the Typing

Give your hardworking fingers a much-deserved break—or free them up for chopping vegetables while you answer emails.

This man is so good at using Google Docs that he doesn't even need both hands.

13 Handy Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Using Google Docs

From helpful keyboard shortcuts to adding handwritten signatures, these tips will make you a Google Doc wizard.

This woman doesn't work for us, but she sure is happy about our Webby Award nomination!

Mental Floss Is Up for a Webby Award—Here’s How to Help Us Win!

We’re thrilled to be included in the best weird general website category, which is basically our greatest dream come true.

Please, thumbs, step away from the spacebar.

In a Bold Move, Microsoft Office Is Now Flagging Double Spaces Between Sentences as an Error

How many spaces should we include after a period? Microsoft is now quietly telling us that the answer is one.

Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 4 at a conference in 2010.

What Does the i in iPhone Stand For?

If you assumed the now-ubiquitous lowercase ‘i’ meant ‘internet,’ you’re not wrong—but that’s only part of it.

You might be stuck in the living room, but it doesn't have to look like it.

6 Fun Backgrounds to Use on Your Next Video Call

From the New York Public Library’s Rose Reading Room to Schitt’s Creek’s Rosebud Motel, there’s really something for everyone here.

This man may have just sunk his opponent's biggest ship on the Battleship app.

9 Classic Board Games You Can Play Online

You can still play Monopoly, Catan, and many other classic board games while staying at least 6 feet away from your opponents.

OpenStreetMap Haiku will capture the colorful character of your hometown in a few (possibly silly) phrases.

Dreaming of Your Favorite City? This Website Will Create a Personalized Haiku Poem About It for You

The developers called the haikus “sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible. Also probably horrifying for haiku purists (sorry).”

This woman is skeptical about misspellings in her emails, and you should be, too.

5 Tips for Avoiding Coronavirus-Related Phishing Emails

Some phishing emails look like they’re being sent from the WHO, the CDC, or even your own HR department.

As long as you're careful, cleaning your laptop can be an easy DIY project.

How to Clean Your Germy Laptop in 4 Easy Steps

All it takes is a can of compressed air and a little homemade computer cleaner to keep coronavirus and other germs away from your laptop.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, K Callan, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Riki Lindhome, Ana de Armas, Jaeden Martell, and Katherine Langford in Rian Johnson's Knives Out (2019).

Apple Reportedly Won't Let Movie Bad Guys Use iPhones

If you want to figure out who the villain is in a movie, just check out a character's smartphone. According to 'Knives Out' director Rian Johnson, Apple won't let bad guys have iPhones.

The Circular smart ring is designed to look simple and appropriate for any occasion.

This Smart Ring Offers Personalized Wellness Advice by Analyzing Your Sleep Patterns and Fitness Levels

This smart ring will help you learn more about your fitness, sleep, and overall well-being, and then give you steps to make improvements.

Rare Pair of ‘Apple Computer Sneakers’ Are Hitting the Auction Block in March

The second of only two known pairs of Apple’s vintage sneakers are heading to a Dallas auction next month.

New App Lets You Hear Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Original 14th-Century English

Monty Python member Terry Jones—who wrote two books on Chaucer—contributed to the app before his death in January.

Scam Alert: A FedEx Tracking Notification Text Wants to Steal Your Credit Card Number

The text message is duping smartphone users into thinking they have a package notification. The only thing being delivered is a scam.

Spending a Lot On Books? This Browser Extension Tells You if They’re Available at Your Local Library

Library catalogs can be confusing, and Amazon’s one-click purchasing is hard to resist. This browser extension can help.

Netflix Is Hiring ‘Nerds’ in Los Angeles and Paris

Not all nerds are alike, and these Netflix jobs are aimed at a specific subcategory of smart, geeky people.

Apple Wants to Show Off Your Best Night Mode Photos as Part of a New Campaign

You don’t need an in-depth knowledge of the iPhone 11’s camera capabilities in order to snap incredible shots with night mode.

11 Pivotal Technology Plot Points in The Net—25 Years Later

The 1995 Sandra Bullock film 'The Net' predicted we'd all be using high-speed Internet to get pizza. And kill things.

Employees at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company control facility in Buffalo, New York, go through a round of Y2K testing toward the end of December 1999.

7 Problems Y2K Actually Caused

Y2K was not the world-ending catastrophe that the media, governments, and tech gurus had predicted. But it still led to some weird, expensive, and sometimes hilarious glitches.

Need to Renew Your Passport in 24 Hours? There’s an App for That

The Mobile Passport app is teaming up with RushMyPassport to deliver you a fresh passport without all the hassle and confusion.

Waze Just Added a Feature to Help Drivers Steer Clear of Unplowed Roads

Waze is making driving safety even easier with a feature that shows you (and lets you report) dangerous and icy roads.

Why You Should Never Charge Your Phone in Public USB Ports Without a USB Data Blocker

Public USB ports could be an easy way for hackers to steal your device’s passwords and other important data.

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