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New study highlights the trouble with auto loans
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New study highlights the trouble with auto loans

Consumer Reports' new analysis of over 800,000 auto loans might make you rethink getting a car loan through a dealership. And it should make us all ask: is a transportation system that requires people take on so much debt really that functional?

Your Phone Isn’t Listening to You. It’s Just Tracking Your Every Move.

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Your Phone Isn’t Listening to You. It’s Just Tracking Your Every Move.

With our phones constantly at our sides, feeding us ads that seem a bit too on the nose, many can’t help but wonder if our phones are eavesdropping on us. While there's no easy answer, the evidence points to no. However, there's a far more sinister reason why tech companies choose not to listen to our conversations: they already have all the information about us they could ever need.

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