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Facebook Will Maybe Start Doing Something About Ads For Shady Clothing Sites

http://ift.tt/1o3T05b You may have seen ads on Facebook or elsewhere online for what look like decent quality and trendy clothes at rock-bo...

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USPS Will Cut Postage Rates This Weekend, Isn’t Happy About It

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If you’ve been stocking up on Forever stamps since the last price hike at the beginning of 2014 , we have some bad news...

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Sen. Al Franken Has A Few Questions About Oculus Rift’s Privacy Policy

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J While we’ve been talking about virtual reality for decades, the current slate of VR headsets marks the first time we’ve...

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Unnecessarily Deployed Emergency Slide Could Cost United Airlines As Much As $30,000

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this week, a United Airlines flight attendant quit her job in dramatic fashion when she deployed the emergency ...

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After Supreme Court Split, Challengers To Public Union Fees Want Case Re-Heard

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In March, an evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-sentence non-decision in a controversial case involving com...

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Yahoo Extends Auction For Its Core Internet Business Another Week

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Companies looking to get a piece of Yahoo’s core internet business — including search, mail, and news sites — have ano...

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DOJ Still Pushing Apple To Unlock Drug Suspect’s iPhone, In Spite Of Judge’s Ruling

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In February, while a federal court in California was pondering whether or not to compel Apple’s assistance in unlocking...

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Pepsodent Shrinks Toothpaste Tubes Slightly To Keep $1 Price Point

http://ift.tt/1MkKsCG The Grocery Shrink Ray is what happens when a company wants to cut their expenses, but not raise their prices. Pepsode...

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Netflix Price Hike Coming Next Month For Estimated 17 Million U.S. Customers

https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/netflixprices.png?w=680&h=403 If you’ve got a grandfathered Netflix standard stream...

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Carrier Must Pay $51M For Allegedly Defrauding Lifeline Program

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine Total Call Mobile $51.1 million after alleging the carrier fraudule...

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That Overpriced Telecom Market You Never Heard Of? The FCC’s Taking It On This Month.

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J You know how literally just yesterday we shared a report about the mostly-hidden, crazy-monopolistic, vastly important...

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BMW Launching A New Car-Sharing Service In Seattle

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In an effort to dip into the car-booking field in the United States, BMW is planning to launch a new “premium car shari...

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AT&T Raises Phone Upgrade And Activation Fee To $20, Matches Verizon

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J You may remember just over a week ago when we learned about Verizon’s plans to raise activation fees for new lines or n...

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Nursing Students Sue ITT Tech Over Misleading Enrollment Practices, Substandard Program

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The lawsuits continue to pile up for embattled for-profit college company ITT Education Services. Just days after the M...

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Judge Tells Minnesota Vikings & Wells Fargo To Settle Stadium “Photo Bombing” Spat

http://ift.tt/1TQffpB It’s the first week of baseball season, and pro hockey and basketball teams are making their final pushes for the play...

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Passengers Suing Spirit Airlines Over In-Flight Brawl Sparked By Boombox

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Three passengers who were aboard a Spirit Airlines flight when a brawl broke out over an overly loud boombox are now s...

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IRS Now Accepting Cash Tax Payments At Your Local 7-Eleven

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Jonesing for a Slurpee and still need to pay your taxes? You can kill two birds with one stone with the Internal Revenu...

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Senate Votes Against Minimum Legroom, Spacing Standards For Airline Seats

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY) said he would try to get federal regulators to come up with limits for airli...

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More Colorado Communities Vote To Toss Restrictive State Law, Explore Municipal Broadband

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Colorado is one of the 20 states with some kind of industry-friendly , public-network-blocking law on the books. But i...

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Judge Rejects Proposed Settlement In Lyft Class Action

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J To settle a class action filed by their drivers in California, ride-hailing service Lyft and the drivers’ attorney agre...

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Man Accused Of Giving Dunkin’ Donuts Drive-Thru Staff A Peep Show They Never Asked For

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J There are many things fast food staff working in the drive-thru have probably had to see that they didn’t want to, we h...

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Hyundai Recalls 173K Sedans Because Power Steering Shouldn’t Just Stop Working

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Power steering helps drivers maneuver their vehicles by taking away some of the steering effort. When the system unexpe...

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Comcast Tells Florida Customers They’ll Be Losing Channels; Won’t Say Which Ones

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Comcast giveth (by accident) and Comcast taketh away (via form letter with no pertinent information). The cable giant i...

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Maryland Passes Bill That Would Keep Pesticides Harmful To Bees Off Retail Shelves

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Although some retailers have stopped selling pesticides that are thought to be harmful to bees, amid concerns over the ...

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Uber To Pay $25M To Settle Allegations It Misled Passengers On Drivers’ Safety, Fees

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Less than two months after Uber agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of m...

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Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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

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Federal Judge: Government Didn’t Prove MetLife Is ‘Too Big To Fail’

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J How can a financial company become a threat to the entire economy? If its failure would be catastrophic for the economy...

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Boss Scam Toll Reaches $2.3 Billion In Less Than 3 Years

http://ift.tt/1GChucz In law enforcement, they call this scam the “Business Email Compromise.” We refer to it as the “Boss Scam” or “CEO Sca...

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Air France Offering Younger Customers A 30% Discount With New Rewards Program

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Here’s something we haven’t seen in the U.S. yet: Air France is intent on wooing the younger crowd of fliers, and is wi...

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Pennsylvania Man Charged With Racketeering For $688M Payday Loan Operation

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Pennsylvania man, known for helping to usher in the payday loan movement, has been charged with racketeering for his ...

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Remember: Your Eye Doctor Should Give You Your Prescriptions After Your Exam

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Generally, you don’t visit your doctor and then buy the medicine that she prescribes right from her office. Contact len...

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Would You Still Eat That If You Knew How Much Exercise It’ll Take To Burn It Off?

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J There are times when we feel like throwing caloric caution to the wind and just chowing down on whatever we darn please...

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Victoria’s Secret Parent Company Restructuring, Plans To Rely Less On Catalog

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Before the era of online commerce, catalogs were the holy grail of shopping without leaving your house. Top on the list...

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Tesla Says It Has Received More Than 325,000 Preorders For The Model 3 In First Week

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J What a difference a few days makes: after exceeding the record for preorders of a vehicle by bringing in 276,000 reserv...

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Report: New Bill Would Let Judges Order Tech Companies To Break Encryption; White House Not Thrilled

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The public fight Apple and the FBI recently had over one particular phone may have resolved itself , but the national d...

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Some Jerk Stole 19 Cases Of Provolone From A Colorado Restaurant

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J While we take all forms of food theft very seriously, when someone commits a cheese-related crime , we get very annoye...

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Best Buy Moving Forward With Same-Day Delivery, Adds 11 Cities To Pilot

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Six months after Best Buy jumped on the same-day delivery bandwagon by launching a pilot program in San Francisco, the...

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