THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Have You Stayed Current On Your Dishwasher-Loading Methods?

http://ift.tt/1RXStNT We’ve long emphasized the importance of not pre-rinsing dishes for your newer dishwasher, since modern appliances now...

Gift-Wrap Shrink Ray: Walmart’s Labels Are A Little Smaller

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http://ift.tt/1ZgszHa It’s not just food that the Grocery Shrink Ray hits: we’ve seen it strike everything from grooming products to warrant...

Authorities Looking Into Just How Many State Jackpots May Have Been Fixed By Former Lottery Worker

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http://ift.tt/1Cpss51 Remember the ex-lottery worker from Iowa who was convicted of rigging a state jackpot so he’d win $14 million ? Autho...

One Day After Arrest For Securities Fraud, Turing Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli Resigns

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http://ift.tt/1OcPQS8 A day after he was arrested as part of a securities-fraud investigation , Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli i...

Coolest Company President Ever Warns Employees Not To Ruin ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ For Everyone Else

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http://ift.tt/1Odtear If you’ve been shunning social media and refusing to speak to anyone who’s already seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens ...

Isis Pharmaceuticals Changes Name To Ionis Pharmaceuticals For Some Reason

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http://ift.tt/1PRaUT1 It’s a problem when you choose a name for your company that, a few decades later, comes to mean something else entire...

Controversial Cybersecurity Bill Makes It Into Omnibus, Will Basically Be Law Any Minute Now

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http://ift.tt/1md1k1J We are rapidly running out of 2015 left to spend, and so the two houses of Congress have been racing to pass an omnibu...

FDA Proposes Regulations That Would Keep Minors Out Of Tanning Beds

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http://ift.tt/1NtNpxr Though a slew of states already have regulations in place that prohibit minors from using indoor tanning beds and sun...

Cox Must Pay $25M For Failing To Stop Repeat Pirates

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http://ift.tt/1Pa2pSH Weeks after a court ruled that Cox Communications had deliberately ignored repeat piracy offenders and put up roadbl...

Report: Target Is Considering Its Own Mobile Wallet App

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http://ift.tt/1Oqikga It seems everywhere you turn these days, another company is offering a new way to pay with a smartphone: there’s Appl...

JPMorgan Chase To Pay $367 Million For Secretly Steering Clients To Investments That Benefited Bank

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http://ift.tt/1lWVnq0 When you pay a bank’s investment adviser to help you put your money in a smart place, you would hope that they would ...

Uber Sends Drivers New Contract That Includes Opting Out Of Any Current Class Actions

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http://ift.tt/1eFNgd6 Was Uber trying to deliberately trick its drivers when it sent out a new driver agreement, or just trying to make its...

Applebee’s Server Returns $32,000 In Cash Family Accidentally Left On The Table

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http://ift.tt/1YmnzUu If you work in a restaurant, finding a large amount of cash on the table might be one of those moments where you thin...

Comcast Customer’s Data Cap Meter Counts Gigabytes He Couldn’t Possibly Use

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http://ift.tt/1yLaoAx In just the few months since Comcast began expanding its cash-grab data cap program, which hits customers with overag...

FCC Wants AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile To Explain Why Their Plans That Exempt Stuff From Data Caps Are OK

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http://ift.tt/22dOGjM There are two big trends in data and streaming. The first is data caps, which limit how much bandwidth you can use in...

Chipotle Facing First Lawsuit Linked To Boston Norovirus Outbreak That Sickened 140 People

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http://ift.tt/1NmYqye It was bound to happen: the first lawsuit has been fired — er, filed against Chipotle in connection with the recent n...

McDonald’s Testing Mac & Cheese Cups In Happy Meals

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http://ift.tt/1RWDHXJ Would you like a cup of mac and cheese with your burger? That may not sound appealing to you, but the pasta dish is a ...

Calling All Last-Minute Shoppers: Today Is “Free Shipping Day”

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http://ift.tt/1OALvZF It sounds pretty simple — it’s Free Shipping Day today (now you know), so one might think a bunch of retailers are of...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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

Maybe Americans Are Eating Cereal Again After All

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http://ift.tt/1vWnlU1 Earlier this year, we reported that the cereal business in the United States is hurting , possibly because of protein...

Safeway Says No Payment Data Stolen From California Stores, Only Colorado

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http://ift.tt/1IbZeJI There’s potential good news out of Safeway: while the company confirmed that they found skimmers in credit card payme...

That 40% Off All Kroger Purchases Coupon Circulating On Facebook Is Just A Big Fat Scam

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http://ift.tt/1QsjXvR File this one under things we’ve said a million times and will say as many times as it takes to keep all shoppers away...