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Home Improvement

Steps to Winterizing Your Home: Have Your Heating System Serviced and Prepare Your Plumbing

Extreme winter weather can leave neighborhoods and communities without power or other public services for long periods of time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns. It's a smart idea to prepare your home for such winter weather emergencies as well as cold weather throughout the season that can cause minor issues to evolve into larger problems – with potential damage to your property or risk of personal injury. Whether […]

todayNovember 6, 2019

Home Improvement

Steps to Winterizing Your Home: Check for Drafts and Insulate the Attic

Extreme winter weather can leave neighborhoods and communities without power or other public services for long periods of time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns. It's a smart idea to prepare your home for such winter weather emergencies as well as cold weather throughout the season that can cause minor issues to evolve into larger problems – with potential damage to your property or risk of personal injury. Whether […]

todayNovember 5, 2019

Health & Wellness

How Effective is the Flu Shot? Here’s What Doctors Want You to Know About This Year’s Vaccine

Throughout your life, you've probably heard two main things about the flu shot: That you should get it every single year, and that, even if you do get it, it might not completely protect you from the flu. Turns out, both of those things are right. That's because, while the flu shot is proven to help protect you against the flu, flu vaccines aren't made with 100% certainty (they are made before flu season […]

todayNovember 5, 2019

Fashion

Zac Posen Says Goodbye to his Fashion Brand

Zac Posen is closing its doors. The beloved designer — a red carpet go-to for celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Katie Holmes and Coco Rocha — is ceasing operations and the Spring/Summer 2020 collection shown in September will not be shipped. The brand confirmed the news (which was first reported by WWD) in a statement to People Magazine. “The owners of the Zac Posen fashion and accessories brand, announced today that […]

todayNovember 5, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Diablo IV announced at BlizzCon 2019

Diablo IV is finally official. Blizzard announced the game at the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2019 in Anaheim, California, and it marks the first entry in the series since 2012’s Diablo III. The game was revealed with a lengthy cinematic, showing off a new, darker tone that harkens back to earlier games in the series. Here’s how Blizzard describes the basic premise: "Diablo IV takes place many years after the […]

todayNovember 5, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1 Billion

Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. In a blog post announcing the news, Google SVP of devices and services Rick Osterloh said that the Fitbit purchase is “an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market.”  The news comes just days after a report from Reuters, which claimed that Google was […]

todayNovember 4, 2019

Fashion

Lady Gaga to Star in Ridley Scott’s Upcoming Gucci Movie

Lady Gaga is stepping back in front of the camera. The Oscar-winner will star in an upcoming film on the Gucci family dynasty, taking on the role of Patrizia Reggiani. Reggiani is the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the Italian fashion house’s founder, Guccio Gucci. The film will be directed by Ridley Scott. According to Variety, Reggiani gained notoriety in the Nineties when she was tried and convicted for […]

todayNovember 4, 2019

Health & Wellness

An Anti-Anxiety Medication Was Just Recalled Due to a ‘Risk of Infection’—Here’s What to Know

The makers of a generic form of Xanax called alprazolam are recalling the drug over concerns that it was contaminated with a foreign substance. Mylan Pharmaceuticals has issued a voluntary nationwide recall of one lot of its 0.5 milligram alprazolam tablets, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recall doesn’t name the foreign material, but the FDA says that there is a “remote risk of infection” if you […]

todayNovember 4, 2019

Food & Drink

Nestle Recalls Ready-To-Bake Refrigerated Cookie Dough After Rubber Found In Some Products

Everyone’s favorite secret-not-so-secret hobby of eating raw cookie dough just got even more dangerous—on top of, you know, the whole salmonella thing. Nestlé USA is recalling a slew of its refrigerated ready-to-bake cookie dough products after rubber was found in some packages. Importantly, there have been no reported illnesses or injuries, so, it’s not totally clear how Nestlé came to realize it was selling ready-to-bake rubber chip cookies. Furthermore, as […]

todayNovember 4, 2019

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