Save Money and Reset Your Financial Life With a Shopping Ban A shopping ban may sound impossible, or only for people who can already afford to live lean, but with the right rules, you can do it too. Read More…

Keeping Up With the Meltdown and Spectre Bugs Companies have rushed to create patches for Meltdown and Spectre — two new major security vulnerabilities — but not everything has gone smoothly. Read More…

Gaza and Google Translate: Covering the Conflict When You Don’t Speak the Language David M. Halbfinger, The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief, found Google Translate useful in Israeli and Palestinian territory, but Waze sometimes reaches a dead end. Read More…

Do Egg Donors Face Long-Term Risks? No one looks beyond the short-term effects of the many hormone injections needed to stimulate the release of multiple eggs at one time. Read More…

How the Defense Department Identifies the Remains of Our War Dead A forensic anthropologist explains how the Defense Department identifies the remains of American service members, like those recently returned from North Korea. Read More…

Clearing the Air on Climate Education: A Reporter Returns to the Scene of Her Story “There may be emotional safety in talking about your story at a physical remove from where it unfolded. But it is far more enlightening — and personally rewarding — to be there.” Read More…

Filling Out Forms on the Web A web browser’s AutoComplete or “autofill” function can save time, but the software is not without risks. Read More…

In ‘The Americans’ Finale, the Deepest Cuts Don’t Leave a Mark The finale, like the series, raised questions of who deserved sympathy and why. As always, the answer was complicated. Read More…

Who Is Cody Wilson, the Man Behind 3-D Printed Guns? Cody Wilson has pushed for the blueprints for 3-D printed guns to be widely available since he was a student at the University of Texas. Defense Distributed, the company he founded, is now at the center of a legal battle over this technology. Read More…

The Information on School Websites Is Not as Safe as You Think Some tracking scripts may be harmless. But others are designed to recognize I.P. addresses and embed cookies that collect information prized by advertisers. Read More…