Many things pair well with Thanksgiving turkey. Road rage isn’t one of them. Google analyzed traffic data from 2017 to figure out the best and worst times to travel next week, as well as when places like grocery stores and movie theaters will be the busiest, according to a company blog post Thursday. Spoiler alert: You’re not …
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Who’s in charge of cleaning up all the space junk orbiting Earth? That’s the question the Federal Communications Commission is officially asking as it takes comment on a proposal to review its orbital debris rules. The FCC voted unanimously on Thursday to revamp its 2004 rules. Since the rules took effect more than a decade ago, there have been loads …
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Cheap things come to those who wait. That’s probably going to end up on my tombstone, I’ve said it so often, but it’s true. Case in point: Samsung’s current-gen phone, the Galaxy S9, made its debut earlier this year for a starting price of $720. Today, for a limited time and while supplies last, Walmart has the factory-unlocked Samsung Galaxy …
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Dear Maggie, My family is traveling over the holidays. Any advice for safe web surfing while on the road? Thanks, Insecure about security Dear Insecure,Some of the busiest travel days of the year in the US are over the Thanksgiving and winter holidays. And that means lots of people at airports using their smartphones to surf the net and charging …
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Cheeps! If you live in the metro-Detroit area and want to learn the secrets of the Cheapskate trade, come join me this Saturday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m. at the Hazel Park Library. I’ll be sharing some of my favorite money-saving tips, giving away swag and raffling off some pretty darn good prizes. Tell a friend! Meanwhile, be sure to …
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I remember the first sentence I ever read. I sat on spill-resistant carpet in my kindergarten classroom. The sun was bright in the windows, and the little paperback reader was big in my hands. While my classmates horsed around in other parts of the room, I read “the bee flies.” Even more than the words, I remember the feeling of …
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Are you a Spotify subscriber? Then you’ve no doubt discovered the limitations for listening offline. Basically, it requires a phone, which isn’t always convenient — like when you’re at the gym or out for a run. And even if you do have your phone, you’ll have to devote a chunk of precious storage to your Spotify playlists. The Mighty Vibe …
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Podcast app Pocket Casts relaunched Wednesday with an overhauled app and a mission to make podcasts less awful to discover. It’s a coming-out party for the podcast app taken over by a group of public radio giants earlier this year. In recent months, podcasting as a format has seemed like a bubble that may have popped. In a string of …
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There was a time when the Yahoo homepage was one of the most important pieces of real estate on the internet. Verizon hopes to relive that prominence. The new Yahoo app’s look is more streamlined, but inspired by the old Yahoo homepage. Yahoo The carrier, now Yahoo’s owner, said Wednesday it’s launching a free new Yahoo app as a one-stop shop for …
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Spheres, the virtual-reality experience that made waves earlier this year when it landed VR’s first seven-figure distribution deal, is breaking out of the film-festival circuit and is now available for public consumption: The three-chapter series debuted for $9.99 on Facebook‘s Oculus Rift VR headset Tuesday. So far, scarcity of quality VR content has been a persistent weakness crimping virtual reality’s growth. …
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