Home Depot's Best Labor Day Sales on Landscaping Power Tools

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.Labor Day sales are rolling in, and Lifehacker is sharing the best sales based on product reviews, comparisons, and price-tracking tools before they’re over. You can also subsc

How to Use Windows' New 'Quick Machine Recovery' Tool

If you've installed the big Windows 11 update that Microsoft pushed out in August (which also includes the new Black Screen of Death), you'll notice a brand new entry in Settings: Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), under System > Recovery.It's designed to tackle that most frustrating of problems: a PC th

This TransUnion Data Breach Affected 4.4 Million Consumers

One of the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus has been breached, leaving the data of more than 4.4 million people exposed to hackers. TransUnion, which maintains credit information on 200 million consumers in the United States and shares that information with 65,000 other organizations, has ju

That Phone Call From Google Is Probably a Scam

You probably know by now not to pick up or respond to the barrage of communication from numbers you don't recognize—this gets easier as smartphones roll out more robust scam detection and spam prevention features. But you are less likely to be suspicious of a call from a contact you recognize, wheth