The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'TLPUR' Mean?
A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand.
This week's trip into the hall-of-mirrors of modern youth culture features a new piece of post-meaning slang, another poisonous dispatch from the incel parts of the internet, a German earworm going viral, and the return of tanning without worry or necessary fear.
From the Archive: 1998 Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan Aims Overseas
From the December 1997 issue of Car and Driver.
Until now, Cadillacs and serious imported sedans had about as much in common as Snoop Doggy Dogg and the Vienna String Quartet. As in mutually exclusive. As in fat-daddy Caddys and hypersonic Bimmers, Mercs, and the zoomy new Lexus GS400s. Never the twain shall meet. Unless, of course, you bolt yourself inside a 1998 Cadillac STS and aim it toward Stuttgart on the E4 Autobahn.
30 Easy 4th of July Side Dishes for a Crowd-Pleasing Cookout
Our best 4th of July side dishes! They include everything you need for a crowd-pleasing cookout: pasta salad, corn on the cob, watermelon, and more.
Published Jun 30, 2026
10 Shows Like 'House of the Dragon' You Should Watch Next
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Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for Thomson Reuters, for which he later traveled around India and the Middle East as an educator specializing in American English style and grammar for adults.
Only 25% of cited sources overlap between ChatGPT's different reasoning modes [Study]
Most AI visibility strategies treat ChatGPT as a single system. The data shows that it might not be wise.
When ChatGPT operates in high-reasoning mode, it cites a different set of brands, surfaces different source types, and behaves differently than when it’s in minimal reasoning mode.
I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISPR base editing | New Scientist
Alyssa Tapley received life-saving CRISPR treatment Alyssa Tapley
When the bone marrow transplant failed to treat my leukaemia, it was like: this is it, there’s nothing else now. The doctors were telling my parents it was a matter of weeks. Not years, not months, but weeks.
These Beats Earbuds Are 47% Off Right Now
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Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals writer for Lifehacker.
She has a Master’s degree in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been writing professionally since 2018, creating product reviews, affiliate articles, and search ads for global clients while working with Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a year teaching English at the junior high level.
GTA 6 makers have 10 working days to voluntarily recognise Rockstar IWGB Game Workers Union or it may go to a government tribunal
Can I get a witness?
The newly-formed Rockstar IWGB Game Workers Union are pushing for official recognition by Rockstar ahead of GTA 6's console release this November.
This Floatable Anker Speaker Is Now $40 Off
Pradershika Sharma
Pradershika Sharma
Freelance Writer
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Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals writer for Lifehacker.
She has a Master’s degree in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been writing professionally since 2018, creating product reviews, affiliate articles, and search ads for global clients while working with Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a year teaching English at the junior high level.
Generative AI is a "virulent plague" and even using it to eliminate "drudgery" has downsides, reckons long-time Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider
"It's not ready for prime time"
Former Dragon Age wordsmith David Gaider isn't keen on the use of generative AI in game development, at least in the tech's current form. In the veteran developer's view, even if it can be used as a means to speed up the handling of more mundane tasks - which is the way many execs have been trying to sell it - genAI runs the risk of inhibiting developers' abilities to teach the less experienced colleagues the ins and outs of the craft.