These puzzles make great gifts. (Photo: Uncommon Goods / Etsy) — Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. A puzzle might be the best gift to give this year. Why? Well, as we’re spending more time indoors than ever before—especially […]

Nothing opens the spigot for angry music industry tweets quite like Spotify Wrapped season. The streaming service’s year-end recap seemed to generate more impassioned debates this year — one side vehemently arguing that you shouldn’t give free advertising to a tech company that’s hamstrung the entire industry by not paying […]

Oh, God, please don’t make me do it. The U.S. stock market’s extraordinary, positive reaction to a nonfarm payrolls report that was about 50% below expectations — with only 245,000 jobs created in November — forced me to go to the BLS website and actually read the report. This is […]

A man pushes carts as a hiring sign shows at a Jewel Osco grocery store in Deerfield, Ill., Thursday, April 23, 2020. Friday, Dec. 4, monthly U.S. jobs report will help answer a key question hanging over the economy: Just how much damage is being caused by the resurgent coronavirus, […]

To cap an already unprecedented season happening during an unprecedented pandemic, the San Francisco 49ers had two days to pick up their entire operation and move more than 700 miles to the Arizona desert. “It’s honestly just the exact same as we were in Santa Clara,” linebacker Fred Warner said […]

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Archaeologists from the future have sent a backpack of clues back to present-day New Haven. They need our help solving an outdoor puzzle. If you solve the challenges laid out below by the end of this article, it will reveal to you the secrets behind a new brain-crunching, pandemic-safe way […]

Exceeding your credit limit could trigger fees and negative credit score impacts. (iStock) A credit card is convenient for paying bills, covering everyday expenses, or booking travel but it’s not a free pass to spend. Your credit limit determines how much purchasing power you have at any given time. While […]

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Most buyers who make sight-unseen offers are familiar with the community or have family members or friends who already live in the area. Getty Images This article is reprinted by permission from The Escape Home, a newsletter for second homeowners and those who want to be. Subscribe here. © 2020. […]

Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it’s the Spanish version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Her students clap along. There’s a greeting from the class mascot (a dragon), yoga, meditation and then some practice with letter sounds: […]

A TikTok user who lives across the street from one of the most haunted hotels in the world caught someone — or something — on the camera that he can’t explain. Los Angeles-based TikToker and musician Peet Montzingo lives across the street from the Cecil Hotel. If you’re familiar with […]

It may just be because cinemas have been effectively shuttered by the coronavirus disease pandemic, but the fizz of the movie industry seems to have gone flat.  Sure, film production isn’t easy when social distancing measures are being enforced on set, and darkened, airless screening rooms packed with row upon […]

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China’s online advertising market has either been a minefield or a goldmine over the past year, depending on which companies you’ve invested in. For Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), which owns China’s top search engine, it was clearly a minefield. Baidu’s advertising revenue dropped year-over-year for six straight quarters; it broadly attributed its […]