Week of January 14, 2019 (see last week)
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Ryanair Rated the Worst Airline Six Years in a Row
Fidelity Intros Zero-Fee Funds
New AA Bathrooms So Small, You May Not Fit
Because of Update Patch Errors, They Suggest Turning Off Automatic Windows 10 Updates
Beware Clever iPhone Scam Starting With a Call From Apple
What's Better: "Multigrain" or "Whole Grain"; "Natural" or "Organic"?
MasterCard Erasing Its Name From its Logo
AT&T Misleadingly Claims Its 4G Service is Now 5G
His GPS Promised Lifetime Map Updates, But They Ended in 3 Years
Yikes: High-Yield Savings Accounts Outperformed Stocks in 2018
Over 1 Million Pre-order Amazon Echo for Cars
CVS Going to Emphasize Health in New Look Stores
AT&T to Stop Selling Your Cell Location to Data Brokers
T-Mobile Announces Better Blocking of Scam Calls
Tipping Flight Attendants? Frontier Says Yes!
New App Gets Teens to Respond to Your Texts
New Hi-Tech Shopping Cart Lets You Plunk and Go, Skipping Cashier
Ring Video Doorbell Cams Viewable by the Company
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Mouse Print* -- Chevy's Advertised Reliability Claims Challenged
Chevrolet just launched a new advertising campaign on TV claiming that its cars are more reliable than Toyota, Honda, Ford and 23 other car brands. Really? We checked the fine print and dispute their justification. You won't believe the basis for their claim.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
There's Lots More Than 3 Credit Reporting Agencies -- How to Get Free Copies of Their Reports on You
Most people know they can get a copy of their credit report from the leading three credit bureaus once a year at AnnualCreditReport.com. But you probably don't know that there are dozens of other agencies that have financial data about you, and they too have to make their reports available to you free.
New-Fangled Electronics Unveiled at CES Show
Every January the latest consumer electronics are put on display at CES in Las Vegas. Here are dozens of this year's new-fangled gizmos.
The Impossible Burger 2.0 Looks and Tastes Like Real Beef, They Say
A bit of unusual "technology" was unveiled at CES last week -- the Impossible Burger 2.0 . It is a hamburger substitute that is plant-based. It is said to have the taste and texture of ground beef, and it even bleeds. (Video, with autoplay, shows how it is made.]
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