THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Should Police Need A Warrant To Obtain Your Cellphone Location Data?

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J On TV and in the movies, when the police want location information on a suspect’s cellphone, the world-weary detectives...

One Woman Dead In Hawaii Scallops Hepatitis A Outbreak

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The likely 50-day incubation period is over, and there have been no new cases of hepatitis A linked to contaminated sca...

American Airlines Flight Catches Fire After Aborting Takeoff In Chicago

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An American Airlines flight preparing to takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport blew a tire and caught fir...

Toyota Latest Carmaker To Invest In Car-Sharing Company

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Following in the footsteps of rival carmakers BMW and General Motors , Toyota dipped its tires into the sharing game o...

Veteran Accuses American Airlines Of Illegally Barring Her Service Dog From Plane

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Last year, American Airlines issued an apology to a retired U.S. Marine after the veteran said he and his service dog ...

Former Chipotle Manager Says He Was Fired For Refusing Wage Theft

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A former Chipotle manager worked hard and rose through the company’s ranks, and then he says that he had a decision to ...

Judge: George Washington Did Not Care About Biometric Data Storage

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J We live in a world that’s constantly throwing new technology, new business, and new quandaries at us. Facebook, Google,...

Wrigley Gum Selling For 1908 Price, Ignoring History Of Chicago Cubs & Wrigley Field

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http://ift.tt/2eVvdSo The Chicago Cubs are looking for their first World Series win since 1908, so the folks at Wrigley Gum are celebrating ...

How Well Do You Remember What Happened This Week?

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Between the World Series, the election, the start of the NBA season, finishing up your Halloween costume, that one frie...

Feds Shut Down Telemarketing Scam That Pitched Money-Making Schemes & Bogus Grants

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J As wonderful as it might sound, odds are that no one is trying to call you to give you free money, and anyone who dangl...

UK Employment Tribunal Rules That Uber Drivers Are Employees

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The question of whether drivers for Uber and other app-based ride-hailing services is an international one, since the s...

Facebook Allows Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On “Ethnic Affinity”

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http://ift.tt/2eUYKeZ Advertisers have always targeted their marketing to the demographic most likely to be interested in their product, but...

Patent Troll Sues Basically Anyone Who Notifies You When Your Package Ships

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It’s a process most of us are familiar with, by now: you buy something online, and you get two emails from the site you...

BMW Recalls 136K Vehicles Over Stalling Issues

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J You can’t go anywhere — or at least get far — if the engine in your car stalls. For that reason, BMW recalled more than...

Soylent Stops Sale Of Meal-Replacement Powder After Customers Report Becoming Ill

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this month, meal replacement startup Soylent announced that it would voluntarily stop selling its new-to-market...

Report: Defense Department Overpaid $54 Million For EpiPens

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It looks like taxpayers didn’t just overpay for EpiPens purchased through Medicaid. According to a new report, the Depa...

Amazon Contractor Agrees To Pay Drivers $100K In Phantom Lunch Breaks

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J What if your employer deducted lunch breaks from your time sheet, but you weren’t allowed to actually take any time for...

New Rules Aim To Make It Easier For Students To Seek Financial, Legal Relief From Failed Colleges

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In the last few years, multiple for-profit college chains have closed with little or no warning given to their student...

Cox Customers In Florida, Georgia Now Have To Pay Up For Hitting Data Caps

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Cox Communications upped it’s data cap to 1 TB per month recently, joining the club with peers AT&T and Comcast. T...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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

Survey: Americans Waiting Until After Election To Shop For Holidays

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Whether it’s because of anxiety due to the upcoming presidential and congressional elections or a stubborn refusal to e...

After 60 Days, What Has The “Robocall Strike Force” Accomplished?

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Two months ago, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson accepted the challenge of FCC Chair Tom Wheeler to head up an industry-...

Report: Amazon To Eventually Open As Many As 2,000 Grocery Stores

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Earlier this month, all-powerful “sources familiar with the matter” claimed that Amazon was on the verge of opening bri...

T-Mobile Wants To Subsidize Your Google Pixel, Sort Of

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J You may remember that T-Mobile was the carrier that pushed the rest of the wireless industry into selling phones withou...

Professional Pooper Scooper Accused Of Impersonating Secret Service Agent To Score Hotel Discount

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Pennsylvania man who reportedly runs a business picking up dog droppings has apparently stepped into a major mess of ...

USDA Proposes Importing Avocados From Colombia Amid Shortage

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Amid a recent avocado shortage linked to a growers’ strike in Mexico and a drought in California affecting crops, the ...

Apple’s ‘TV’ (Not Just Apple TV) Wants To Be Your One-Stop Streaming Shop

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Today at a major press event, Apple announced TV. Not Apple TV, which already exists; nor iTV, which would be in line w...