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Android (root): When Google released the Nexus 5, it came with a spiffy new dialer that intelligently integrated your regular contacts with business search. Unfortunately, it was unavailable on non-Google devices, until now. Read more...

The default Android gallery is a nice enough app, but if you want something with a few more features—like password-protecting certain photos or sorting them however you want—QuickPic is our favorite gallery replacement. Read more...

In the past week, Ryan Holiday read seven books, flew from Austin to Atlanta to Miami to Atlanta to LA to Maui, and juggled two demanding jobs: director of marketing at the controversial clothing retailer American Apparel, and partner at creative marketing company StoryArk. (Just writing that...

You might want to keep a few teabags in your first aid kit. Besides being an extraordinarily healthy drink, tea applied to the skin can also be very healing. Read more...

Amazon's Gold Box is bursting at the seams today with SD cards, Micro SD cards, and a few other mobile accessories from Sony. As always, we've broken out a few of the best deals below (all representing the lowest prices ever), but be sure to check out the entire list for more deals and different...

Proper grammar is important, whether you write for a living or only occasionally. It's especially important if you're looking for a job or trying to impress a new client. In this infographic, GrammarCheck has collected a list of some of the most common grammar errors people make and how to avoid...

It's easy to use Google Calendar as your project management tool, but if you want a more traditional project management view, take a look at new webapp Ganttify. It connects to your Google Calendar, Trello, or Basecamp account to instantly serve up your events in a Gantt chart. Read more...

Dear Lifehacker, I'm in the market for a new smartphone and would like to get one cheap. I'm worried about buying it from eBay or Craigslist for fear I'll get a stolen phone. Is there a way I can check before I buy? Read more...

This might be the most incredible home office we've seen so far. Software developer Stefan Didak's "world famous" home office sports not just multiple monitors on multiple desks, but also multiple workstations, servers, and laptops—a total of 22 in this latest update. Read more...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Tobacco growers are the big winners, while the environment and people who have lost land to tobacco estates are the major losers in Malawi's expanding tobacco industry. This is according to Alois Mandondo of the Centre for Agrarian and Environmental Studies in Zimbabwe. Mandondo...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova. Their findings appear in the Dec. 20 issue of the...

Dec. 18, 2013 — A vaccine study in monkeys designed to identify measurable signs that the animals were protected from infection by SIV, the monkey version of HIV, as well as the mechanism of such protection has yielded numerous insights that may advance HIV vaccine research. Seven laboratories...

Dec. 18, 2013 — New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near-space environment and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary...

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Earth's continental topography reflects the balance between tectonics, climate, and their interaction through erosion. However, understanding the impact of individual factors on Earth's topography remains elusive. Professor Todd Ehlers of the University of Tübingen Geoscience...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly broaden its bandwidth of operation. Andrea Alù, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Forget socks and shaving foam, the big kids of tomorrow want an invisible cloak for Christmas. Mums and Dads beware, next year's Christmas wish list could be more out of reach (or sight…) than ever before. Invisibility, a long sought-after speculation in science fiction, has been...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Halomonas are a hardy breed of bacteria. They can withstand heat, high salinity, low oxygen, utter darkness and pressures that would kill most other organisms. These traits enable these microbes to eke out a living in deep sandstone formations that also happen to be useful for...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Adults nationwide are concerned about the use of e-cigarettes by children and teens, with 44 percent indicating worries that the devices will encourage kids to use tobacco products, according to a new poll from the University of Michigan. According to the latest University of...

Dec. 18, 2013 — Understanding how dietary habits are connected through the generations could have valuable benefits for community health, a new study shows. The Taiwanese study assessed the relationship between the quality of children's diets and that of their elders in a wide range of...