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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2019 Behind every great cloud is a whole bunch of expensive computers
As we saw in tech company earnings over the last couple of weeks, tech giants are making a lot of money on cloud computing. Amazon, Google and Microsoft rent out computer storage and computing power to smaller companies for lots of profit, and they spend a lot of money on it themselves, too. “Cloud” is […]
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CLOTHING 
January 10, 2018 3 Tricks To Help You Take Care Of Your Expensive, Delicate Clothing
Take care of your clothes and they’ll take care of you You have to be disciplined when it comes to the life of clothing Whether you’re a complete fashionista or avoid shopping like the plague, invariably, one ends up spending a lot of money on clothes. And we’ve all dealt with situations when we’ve dirtied our […]
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CLOTHING 
January 4, 2018 3 Tricks To Help You Take Care Of Your Expensive, Delicate Clothing
Take care of your clothes and they’ll take care of you You have to be disciplined when it comes to the life of clothing Whether you’re a complete fashionista or avoid shopping like the plague, invariably, one ends up spending a lot of money on clothes. And we’ve all dealt with situations when we’ve dirtied our […]
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COMPUTERS 
July 13, 2017 Computers are getting more expensive, and here’s why
Prices for memory chips have jumped during the past year, and those increases are starting to make their way to consumers. The world-wide personal computer industry saw another quarterly decline in sales during the second quarter, as price hikes caused by memory chip scarcity scared some consumers away. According to data for the second quarter […]
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COUPONS 
May 9, 2017 Burger King ‘Buy One Get One Free’ coupons make food MORE expensive, lawsuit claims
A woman is suing Burger King after claiming they sneakily inflated the price of Croissan’wichs when she attempted to pay with coupons. Koleta Anderson, from Maryland, says she bought two sausage Croissan’wichs on March 12 at a Burger King in suburban Washington D.C.. She used a Buy One Get One Free Coupon and was charged […]
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CLOTHING 
April 17, 2017 Wearable cloud could be less expensive more powerful form of mobile computing
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into clothing. Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer and information sciences in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, and Rasib Khan, Ph.D., a recent […]
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ELECTRONICS 
March 27, 2016 How to Experience Virtual Reality Without an Expensive Headset
Hollywood studios, news outlets and consumer brands are all dabbling with virtual reality. Many everyday folks will soon join them using 360-degree cameras coming soon from Samsung and LG. But headsets to view VR video can cost more than $1,000 once you include a high-end personal computer with fast-enough graphics. And while smartphone makers are […]
