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Feds To Announce Airplane Ban For All Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phones

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If you own a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and plan to take a flight soon, you might need to turn in that recalled phone before...

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Ohio Also Decides It’s Time To Take A Break From Doing Business With Wells Fargo

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Following in the footsteps of Illinois and California , the state of Ohio has become the latest to take a break from do...

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After Worker Backlash, Instacart Decides To Not Get Rid Of Tips

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A day after we told you about workers’ unhappy response to Instacart’s plan to do away with tips and replace them wit...

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Salesforce Joins Companies Walking Away From Twitter Purchase

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Poor Twitter. Despite an abundance of rumored suitors, it’s starting to look like no one wants to buy the social media ...

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Facebook Now Lets Users With iOS Devices Stream Videos On Apple TV, Chromecast

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The next time you fall down a watch-these-disembodied-hands-make-food video hole on Facebook, you won’t have to watch i...

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Yahoo Explains Why It Turned Off Email Auto-Forwarding; Turns It Back On

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this week, we told you about Yahoo Mail users complaining that they could no longer use the auto-forward functi...

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How Well Have You Been Paying Attention This Week? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J After a week off caused by a brief, unexplained work stoppage by the 743-person team that otherwise toils day and night...

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Dole Slapping Disney Branding On Fresh Produce Line Aimed At Kids

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Will Princess Elsa’s face on a bunch of broccoli make more kids want to eat their vegetables? That remains to be seen, ...

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San Francisco Proposal Would Limit Residential Airbnb Rentals To 60 Days/Year

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The relationship between Airbnb and its home city of San Francisco is complicated to say the least. the least. The two ...

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Going To Cuba? You May Now Bring Home All The Rum And Cigars You Can Carry

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Caribbean island nation of Cuba is many different things to many different people. However, to a very large percent...

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Hershey’s CEO Announces Plan To Step Down From His Chocolate Throne

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In the town of Hershey, behind huge locked gates and a high wall sits an enormous chocolate company with smoke belching...

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Drinkable Yogurt Is What Happens When We Get Tired Of Other Trendy Ideas

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If you have a problem with the idea of chugging liquid yogurt, gird your stomachs, folks. Because it’s a thing that is ...

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No More Wearing Glasses To Look Smart In Your Passport Photo

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Some folks wear glasses so frequently that they look like a different person when they aren’t bespectacled, so it would...

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Cox Joins The 1 TB Data Cap Party

http://ift.tt/2efOtJy Fast internet is great for doing stuff. Except that for millions of subscribers, there’s a limit on how much stuff you...

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Honda Recalls 350K Cars Over Parking Brake Issue

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this week,  Toyota announced it would recall hundreds of thousands of cars over a parking brake issue. Now, Ho...

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Debacle Will Likely Cost Company $3B

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Surprise! All the trouble Samsung has had with its Galaxy Note 7 — the non-recall , the official recall , scrapping the...

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DeVry University Must Stop Claiming That 90% Of Grads Get Jobs

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Many for-profit college chains recruited students through ads touting exceedingly high job-placement rates, but as we’v...

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Get Excited: U.S. Airlines Will Probably Raise Ticket Prices Next Year

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Now that we’ve all gotten used to cheaper flights amid low fuel prices over the last few years, it’s time for the the a...

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Wells Fargo Employee: Bank Hid Truth About 401(k) Plan Amid “Criminal Epidemic”

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Thousands of Wells Fargo employees have already been fired for opening unauthorized accounts to meet sales goals, but w...

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Glitch Blamed For Latest United Airlines Delays

http://ift.tt/2bKiaV9 While most of us were catching a few “Zs” last night, thousands of United Airlines passengers were waiting in terminal...

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Subway Worker Accused Of Filming Women In The Restroom

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Subway employee in Seattle is facing charges of voyeurism and possession of child pornography after allegedly filming...

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The Newest Feature In Air Travel: Fireproof Bags For Exploding Phones

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Although it was no doubt scary when a Note 7 recently caught fire on a Southwest flight, the passengers and crew in th...

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Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

http://ift.tt/2eamgbn Here are six of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usabil...

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We Throw $62 Million Worth Of Coins In The Trash Every Year

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The ash that’s left after incinerating garbage is not pleasant to look at or smell, but it’s still very valuable. How? ...

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Grocery Shrink Ray Swipes A Few Junior Mints

http://ift.tt/2e1jkvG The Grocery Shrink Ray is the reason why a “half gallon” container of ice cream is no longer half a gallon (with notab...

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Skincare Marketers Barred Over Deceptive Marketing and Billing Practices

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A year after federal regulators received a court order temporarily shutting down a group of marketers allegedly using d...

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Cemetery’s New Owners Ban Mourners From Visiting Graves

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Allowing mourners to visit the graves of their dearly departed might seem like the sole function of a cemetery, but tha...

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Apple: No Evidence Apple Store Workers Stole Photos From Customers’ iPhones

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Even though Apple fired several Apple Store employees accused of stealing photos from female customers’ iPhones, the co...

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Verizon: Yahoo Has To Prove Impact Of Data Breach Isn’t “Material”

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It sounds like Yahoo has some explaining to do if it wants Verizon to go ahead with the $4.8 billion deal to buy its in...

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Why Don’t Carriers Just Kick The Galaxy Note 7 Off their Networks?

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Even when a recall is heavily publicized, not all of the items are recovered and returned to the manufacturer. That may...

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Help Us Figure Out Your Fast-Food Frequency

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J When Greg Creed, the curiously Australian CEO of Yum Brands, recently boasted that “Half the U.S. population eats Taco...

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Chicago Might Be Next To Try Tax On Sodas & Sugary Drinks

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Days after the Whole Health Organization announced it supported taxes on sugary drinks in order to curb obesity, the l...

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Lawsuit: Disability Rights Group Claims Uber Violates U.S. Wheelchair Accessibility Laws

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Chicago disability rights group is suing Uber in federal court, claiming that the transportation company doesn’t prov...

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Best Buy Selling iPhone 7 Devices At $50 To $100 Markup

http://ift.tt/2dPQYXj In general, retailers sell new Apple products at the sticker price set by the tech giant, but if you want to buy a new...

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New Wells Fargo CEO Recently Denied “Overbearing Sales Culture” That Created Fake Account Fiasco

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Yesterday afternoon, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf announced his sudden “retirement” from the bank that continues to dea...

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CheapAir Is The First U.S. Online Company To Sell Scheduled Flights To Cuba

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Now that U.S. airlines can finally fly regularly scheduled flights to and from Cuba, at least one stateside online book...

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Deadly Bacterial Infection Linked To Machine Used During Heart Surgeries

http://ift.tt/2ecQjuZ Non-tuberculosis mycobacteria are among the germs that just are just sort of everywhere and don’t do much harm to peop...

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