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3 ways to save if coffee prices skyrocket
3 ways to save if coffee prices skyrocket Hold on to your coffee cup: One of the worst Brazilian droughts in decades has slashed the supply of coffee beans, which could mean higher prices at the...
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Best way to stop bug bites
Best way to stop bug bites Summer’s insects can be more than annoying—they can also make you sick. Ticks carry Lyme disease and mosquitoes spread serious illnesses such as West Nile virus. Bill Gates...
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Viewpoint: Greener gas and gift cards
Viewpoint: Greener gas and gift cards The win: The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that lower the amount of sulfur in gasoline and cut tailpipe emissions from vehicles. Last year,...
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Run your home from your phone
Run your home from your phone You know the feeling. You’re on your way to work or the airport, and you can’t remember whether you turned off the lights and turned on the security system or locked the...
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How to organize, save, and send your digital photos
How to organize, save, and send your digital photos About 880 billion photographs will be taken in 2014, according to Yahoo, roughly 123 photos for every man, woman, and child on Earth. That’s a lot...
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Healthy aging into your 80s and beyond
Healthy aging into your 80s and beyond Sixty years ago an American who made it to 65 could expect to live an additional 14 years. Today, it’s 19 years. The most important question then: how to grow...
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From our president: Testing car seats
From our president: Testing car seats For decades, Consumer Reports has worked to make child car seats safer. Now we’ve made meaningful improvements to our evaluations of infant car seats with a newly...
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Food advertising: Picture vs. Product Part II
Food advertising: Picture vs. Product Part II When we first featured supermarket foods that bore little resemblance to their package photos, we apparently opened a can of, well, worms. Since then,...
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11 ways to create a backyard oasis
11 ways to create a backyard oasis Need more space to entertain? Just open your back door and step outside. But after a harsh, unrelenting winter, you might not like what you see. Forty-four percent...
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Running a Home from a Phone
Running a Home from a Phone Findings from the latest tests of home automation products including smart appliances, app-enabled locks, musical toilets and more YONKERS, NY – The number of home...
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New test cars in our program include big GM SUVs and small German luxury cars
New test cars in our program include big GM SUVs and small German luxury cars Episode #31 of our Talking Cars with Consumer Reports podcasts discusses the flurry of new test car purchases at the...
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What to buy at Costco and what to skip
What to buy at Costco and what to skip Joining Costco can lead to big savings in your household budget. But you need to shop strategically, or that oversized shopping cart will fill up, even when...
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5 ways police are going to catch you texting
5 ways police are going to catch you texting Distracted driving awareness month may be over, but enforcement of these laws continues to be a priority for police officers all over the country. At the...
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How many people got new health insurance?
How many people got new health insurance? The final numbers are in—well, almost in—and it’s clear that a whole lot of Americans enrolled in new health plans during the Affordable Care Act’s first open...
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Your online photos might not be as private as you think
Your online photos might not be as private as you think You can’t unshare digital photos or be sure that they will be seen only by the people you want to see them. A friend (or someone you thought was...
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Hearing loss and tinnitus common in musicians
Hearing loss and tinnitus common in musicians A good part of my youth in the 1970s and 1980s was spent at rock concerts as close to the front as I could get, with huge stacked amplifiers curling my...
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Living with Google Glass: Getting started
Living with Google Glass: Getting started This is the first in a series of posts on using Google Glass. Until a couple of weeks ago, Google made Glass accessible only to a group it calls Glass...
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Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 shouldn’t be cleared for takeoff
Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 shouldn’t be cleared for takeoff The good news for airline passengers is that technology has made booking a flight easier than ever. The bad news? It’s becoming harder...
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Data breach alert: Small retailers are especially vulnerable
Data breach alert: Small retailers are especially vulnerable If you’re more worried about becoming a victim of a data breach at a big national retail chain than in your local mom-and-pop store, think...
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7 gifts that save Mom time all year long
7 gifts that save Mom time all year long Bet your Mom would love it if she were able to spend more time with the family and less doing chores. The experts and editors at Consumer Reports are always...
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