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Today In Weird Clothing Trends: Wearing Jeans Infused With Jade To Beat The Heat

http://ift.tt/1JDP12R ( Lee brand on YouTube ) Because no one likes having heavy fabric clinging to sweaty, suffocating legs when it’s ho...

Chrome Extension Lets Gmail Users Set Their Messages To Self-Destruct

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http://ift.tt/1DCJ3gN ( Dmail ) In a world where sending instant messages is commonplace, the dark side of communicating at the touch of ...

It’s Official: FCC Gives Blessing To Marriage Of AT&T, DirecTV

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http://ift.tt/1w9IkD6 ( jetsetpress ) After the announcement earlier this week that the FCC commissioners were reviewing and set to vote ...

Comcast To Begin Testing Super-Fast Cable Broadband This Year

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http://ift.tt/1Hsmn9q ( honeylamb ) Most talk of new high-speed broadband has revolved around Internet service providers laying new netwo...

Apple Once Again Removes The Competition, Yanks Nest Thermostats From Retail & Online Stores

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http://ift.tt/1In4Yht ( SimonQ錫濛譙 ) As is Apple’s usual M.O. when it comes to launching products similar to those made by other companie...

SEC Investigating Beverage Giant Diageo Over Allegations It Artificially Boosted Sales Figures

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http://ift.tt/1IjdbP8 ( Ben Sutherland ) When a company says it’s moving a whole lot of products, that could mean that its sales are boom...

Appeals Court Revives Texas Bank’s Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality Of CFPB

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http://ift.tt/1FF9DMg Adam Fagen This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrates its fourth anniversary of protecting cons...

Apple Music Is Worse Because You Can’t Delete It From Your iDevice

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http://ift.tt/1JDukUL ( William Hook ) My friend Gretchen has a folder on her iPhone’s home screen called “Crapple.” It’s where she stick...

Prosecutors Recommend Life Sentence For Peanut Co. Exec Involved In Salmonella Outbreak

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http://ift.tt/1RYtETL ( Great Beyond ) Stewart Parnell is the former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, the company behind a salmone...

Fiat Chrysler Recalling 1.4M Vehicles Amid Concern Over Remote Hack Attacks

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http://ift.tt/1fs9fVr ( Ralph Krawczyk Jr ) With the steely eye of the government fixed firmly on Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, the compa...

Court Says Facebook Can’t Challenge Search Warrants For User Data

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http://ift.tt/1ImLZDK ( Christoph Aigner ) If a company like Facebook receives a subpoena for user data in a civil lawsuit, it can make i...

Five Airlines Being Probed For Price-Gouging Following Amtrak Accident

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http://ift.tt/1AnRWMx ( Eric Spiegel ) Five airlines are at the center of a newly opened federal investigation into price-gouging for the...

Converse Gives Chuck Taylor Sneakers A Makeover For The First Time In 98 Years

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http://ift.tt/1LBDzLe (Converse) What’s old is new again: Converse has updated the design of its signature Chuck Taylor sneakers for the ...

Banks Run Free Classes For Rich Kids On How To Be Super-Rich

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http://ift.tt/1DBYXI4 ( Cavale Doom ) Being a young adult who will inherit billions of dollars isn’t all fabulous parties, designer cloth...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Recalled Tuna Sickens 62 People In 11 States

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http://ift.tt/1DBWv4h ( Morton Fox ) At least 62 people in 11 states have become infected in the year’s latest Salmonella outbreak, this ...

Walmart Selling Car Seat That Alerts Parents When A Child Is Left Behind

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http://ift.tt/1DBRMjf ( Evenflo ) Every summer, we can’t help but wonder why there aren’t more product solutions to the disturbing, but a...

Comcast Reportedly Looking To Buy Vice Media, Or Maybe BuzzFeed, Or Maybe Vox…

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http://ift.tt/1RXQYkz ( YayAdrian ) Now that Comcast is done crying itself to sleep every night about its forced breakup with merger part...

Anthem Buying Cigna For $54B In Yet Another Mega Insurance Merger

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http://ift.tt/1zQXO0S ( Anthem ) What a difference a month makes: Just a few weeks ago, Cigna rejected Anthem as a suitor , citing things...

Couple Says They Ordered A McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger, Got A Rag Instead

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http://ift.tt/1Ir33ds An Illinois couple claim they received this rag instead of a burger from a local McDonald’s restaurant. When placin...

On Going Power Outage At LaGuardia Airport Delays Some Flights Three Hours

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http://ift.tt/139Y2lT ( edward.valio ) While a planned strike earlier this week by contracted baggage handlers and security workers was c...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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http://ift.tt/1RXsI1S Here are ten of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usabil...