For the better part of a year rumors have been swirling about the features and design of Apple’s yet-to-be launched iPhone 8. Speculation ...
Court Says FAA Must Explain Why It Won’t Do Anything To Stop “Incredibly Shrinking Airline Seat”
Staples And Office Depot Circling Each Other Again With Merger In Their Eyes
From 2015 to 2016, retail-watchers carefully tracked the proposed merger of Staples and Office Depot , which itself had recently acquired Of...
Google’s Tracking Of Offline Spending Sparks Call For Federal Investigation
Google recently announced a suite of new tools for advertisers , allowing them to link a customer’s offline credit card purchases with the t...
Charter Decides It’s Not Particularly Interested In Being Acquired By Sprint Right Now
You would think that after just having finished a mega-merger with Time Warner Cable last year, Charter might want to take a break before di...
Utility Worker Accused Of Shooting Dog During Surveying Work For AT&T
A family in Michigan kept their dog safe in their own front lawn, hanging out behind an invisible fence. The problem with invisible fences, ...
Discovery Communications, Scripps Networks Bring HGTV & TLC Together In $14.6B Deal
Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks are putting Shark Week, Guy Fieri, House Hunters, and Bizarre Foods all under the same umbrell...
Here Are This Year’s 8 Most Ridiculously Calorie-Filled Chain Restaurant Meals
July 29 Is National Chicken Wing Day: Here Are Some Deals And Stunt Foods
There’s only one good thing about nonsense holidays like National Ice Cream Day or National Donut Day : If you like the food being celebrat...
How Home-Grown Tomatoes And Misread Tea Leaves Led To Pointless Police Raid On Innocent Family’s Home
When Bob Harte took his two young kids shopping with him at an organic gardening store in Kansas City, Missouri, he had no idea that he had ...
Report: 25,000 Wells Fargo Customers Lost Vehicles After Bank Charged For Unwanted Insurance
Nearly 25,000 Wells Fargo customers, including many servicemembers, lost their vehicles after failing to pay for unneeded, unwanted insuranc...
Please Do Not Buy Counterfeit Solar Eclipse Glasses
There’s a total solar eclipse coming across much of the country on Aug. 21, which will be amazing to watch. However, use caution, and make ...
United Kingdom Discovers 2,529 Products Hit By Grocery Shrink Ray, Calls It ‘Shrinkflation’
The grocery shrink ray is a phenomenon that you may have noticed, where companies make their packaged products slightly smaller, charge the...
Your Tank Of Colorful Coral Could Pose A Toxic Danger
Installing a massive water-filled tank full of colorful floral and different species of fish might sound like great way to give your home th...
So Is Congress’ Effort To Repeal Obamacare Actually Dead For Real, Or What?
It’s been a heck of a week in D.C. On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate held a high-drama, high-stakes vote to move on a proposal to repeal and/...
Players In New Professional Esports League Could Make As Much As Major League Soccer Players
Not only can competitive video game players now receive scholarships to the University of Utah , they could parlay that love into a pretty w...
FDA Considering Lowering Level Of Nicotine Allowed In Cigarettes To Reduce Addiction
Could your future cigarette purchase come with a little less nicotine? It’s possible, as the FDA revealed today a new multi-year roadmap int...
Apple Puts iPod Nano And iPod Shuffle Out To Pasture
So long, old friends: After many redesigns and colors, Apple has dropped the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle from its lineup. Why drop the teeny ...
Starbucks Closing All Teavana Stores
It was almost five years ago that Starbucks paid $620 million to acquire mall tea chain Teavana , politely declining the $800 million tea ti...
Honda Investigating Another Death Possibly Tied To Takata Airbag
Federal safety regulators and Honda have opened investigations into what could be the 13th U.S.-based death linked to recalled shrapnel-shoo...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are eight of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist...
GOP Finally Releases ‘Skinny’ Repeal Bill: The Health Care Freedom Act
After several days of mystery and voting for and against amendments on a bill that doesn’t really exist, Republican leadership in the Senate...
Judge Rules That Politician Violated First Amendment By Banning Critical Commenter
With politicians — most notably our current President — using social media to communicate directly to the world, the question is now being a...
Shelf-Checking Robots To Roam The Aisles At Schnucks Supermarkets
Sure, big-box hardware store Lowe’s has a customer service robot that still won’t keep you from hating your partner , but supermarket chain...
American Airlines To Notify Customers If Bags Are Delayed
For the better part of a year, airlines have experimented with different programs aimed at easing travelers’ frustrations when it comes to t...
Is Obamacare “Skinny Repeal” Actually The Senate’s Plan, Or A Way To Bring Back The House Version Instead?
After a chaotic and tumultuous week, the Senate appears to be slowly, painfully congealing around a plan it can agree on to repeal parts of ...