The fertility-tracking app Glow collects detailed information about users’ bodies and sex lives, and one thing that may not occur to users i...
For-Profit ITT Expects New Student Enrollment Will Drop By Up To 60% This Fall
Facing multiple lawsuits, the possible loss of its accreditation (from an accrediting body that is in trouble on its own), and demands from ...
Panera Restaurant Shut Down Due To High Carbon Monoxide Levels
When you hear about a restaurant being shut down for a health hazard, you might assume that it’s because of an outbreak of illness, or becau...
President Signs Law That Overturns Vermont GMO Labeling Rules, Replaces Them With Barcodes
Mercedes Pulls Potentially Confusing Ads For 2017 E-Class That Call The Car ‘Self-Driving’
Fully autonomous cars will be available to consumers someday, but not yet. After consumer advocates, including our own parent organization, ...
Give Your Brain A Workout With This Week’s Consumerist Quiz!
That’s right: It’s time to once again put on the mental SCUBA gear and dive deep into your memory, to see if you can recall all the things y...
Pokémon Go Creators Removing Some Locations In Effort To Be “Respectful” Of Reality
Since Pokémon Go launched earlier this month, the mobile game has sent out into the world in droves, seeking Pokemon, as well as “Pokéstops,...
Kmart Realizes Maybe It Should Try Communicating With Its Own Employees
Last weekend, a story hit the Internet about the current fears of Kmart employees that they’re being asked to move all stock to the sales f...
AT&T Tweaks Uverse Data Caps (Again), Will Still Charge You $30 For Unlimited Data
If it seems like this is the season when every ISP out there is messing with its data caps, well, that’s because it is. Up today: AT&T, ...
NY Regulators Cracking Down On Sale Of Undersized Lobsters At Price Chopper Stores
It’s summer, and many people are no doubt jonesing for that seasonal favorite, the lobster roll. But in order to make sure there are enough ...
Sony, Ghostface Killah Must Face Copyright Lawsuit Over Use Of ‘Iron Man’ Cartoon Theme
The composer of the theme song used in the 1966 cartoon version of Marvel’s Iron Man won a minor victory today, with a federal appeals court...
How Scalpers Make More Money Off Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Than The Show’s Producers
There’s good news for impatient theater fans who want to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton.” After ticket prices peaked between this year’...
MTV Bringing Back “Beavis And Butt-head,” “Daria,” & More With New Classics Channel
Has your TV-viewing life been missing a pair of friends sitting on the couch exclaiming “This sucks!” or an angsty teen dealing with her bub...
JetBlue Starting Flights To Cuba Next Month From $99 Each Way
JetBlue is getting the jump on other domestic airlines that have announced their plans for flights to Cuba, saying it’ll be the first domest...
Florida Officials Investigating 4 Cases Of Zika That May Have Been Transmitted By Mosquitoes
For the first time in the U.S., health officials believe local mosquitoes may have transmitted the Zika virus to humans. Florida authoritie...
Walgreens Closing Beauty.com, Drugstore.com
With easy-to-remember names like drugstore.com and beauty.com, one might expect these Walgreens-owned websites to be doing gangbusters busin...
Cable, Wireless Industries Try Yet Again To Take Net Neutrality To Court
We have had had net neutrality as the law of the land for over a year now. Lawsuits immediately followed its implementation, of course, bu...
Man Planning To Sue After Arrest For “Meth” That Was Actually Krispy Kreme
It was a case of mistaken identity. Orlando Police thought they’d identified methamphetamine in a man’s car, when really, it was just the f...
There’s Now A Card Version Of “The Oregon Trail”
Until just a few years ago — when The Internet Archive brought the game to most current browsers — the only way to relive your virtually Ty...
NM Politician Spots New, Destroyed Sneakers In Trash At Sports Authority Store Closing Sale
Politicians are regular people who do mundane things like check out store-closing sales at national sporting goods retailers. A New Mexico s...
Google Plans To Work With All Carmakers On Self-Driving Vehicles
Google recently announced it will work with Fiat Chrysler to develop driverless minivans , but the tech titan has plans to make several more...
China Okays Merger Of Former U.S. Beer Giants
The final country that needed to weigh in on the mega-merger of beer giants SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev has given its blessing to the...
Today Is The Last Day Windows Users Can Upgrade To Windows 10 For Free
If you’ve been putting off upgrading your Windows 7 or 8 operating system to Windows 10 — even after all that nagging, prompting, and pester...
Man Arrested For Doing Yoga, Threatening Crew On Flight Owes United Airlines $44,000
Remember the man who was arrested after he refused to stop doing yoga and got violent with the crew , forcing the pilot of a United Airlines...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are five of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist ...
Care.com Can’t Explain Why People Keep Texting Me To Babysit Their Kids
We’ve all gotten wrong-number calls and texts; some of us have even been on the receiving end of repeated wrong-number calls looking for the...
5 Things We Learned About The Not-So-Mysterious Business Of E-Commerce Arbitrage
We’ve written about the practice of arbitrage in e-commerc e in the past. Arbitrage is when you take advantage of different prices for the s...
Snake Oil Was A Real Thing & 3 Other Things You Should Know About Sham Medicines
To Prevent Poisoned Kids, Lock Up Both The Pot Brownies And The Toothpaste
When something becomes legal, it becomes more common in citizens’ homes. That’s why it’s not surprising that a study shows an increase in tr...
4 Times Apple Shot Itself In The Foot Trying To Reach Streaming TV Deals
Apple revolutionized the music market with the iPod and iTunes, then made traditional cellphones and laptops a thing of the past with the iP...
Boeing Might Stop Making 747 Jumbo Jets After Recent Slump In Orders
The days of flying through the air in a jumbo jet filled with hundreds of other travelers may someday be a thing of the past, as Boeing says...
New Vizio Owner LeEco Is In The Ecosystem Business, Not The Gadget Business
Earlier this week, TV-maker Vizio announced that it had been acquired by the Chinese company LeEco. “Who?” you might have said. Even people ...
Some Banks Offering Tech Employees Mortgages With No Down Payment
Usually when you hear about banks offering home loans with low down-payment requirements, it’s intended to attract first-time homeowners who...
Chipotle Will Open Its First Burger Restaurant In Ohio This Fall
Chipotle is hoping its customers have gotten over that whole food-borne illness thing and will trust it to make tasty burgers, with its new ...
Comcast’s Still Not Sure There’s Any Money In This Whole “Streaming” Thing
You might have heard that it’s 2016, and streaming your TV via the internet is all the rage. And yet despite being just as susceptible to co...
International Partnership Created To Speed Up Antibiotic Development
Drug-resistant superbugs are on the rise, increasingly rendering a number of drugs useless even for infections that were once easily treated...
Uber Drivers Say That When They Turn Down Ride Requests, They Get Timeouts
Just like when your mom told you to go sit in the corner for refusing to pick up your toys, Uber drivers say that when they repeatedly turn ...
Tumblr Users Will Soon Be Able To Make Money From Ads
Just in case you didn’t think Tumblr pages were cluttered enough with cribbed photos and seemingly endless lists of comments and notes, the ...