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In this week's Ask Maggie, I offer some suggestions for managing data usage as Verizon ditches its all-you-can-eat plans. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...

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Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the ...

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They make footballs at the Wilson factory in Ada, Ohio. And since 2017 they've been making them a little differently for the NFL. A regulation-sized football weighs 400 grams (please, spare us your ...