I compared grocery prices at Costco, Walmart, and HEB for a family of 4. I was shocked Walmart wasn't a better bargain.

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The author outside of a Costco.

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  • Inflation is cooling overall, but food prices have been more stubborn.
  • To combat high prices, some people are seeking out the best deals at different stores.
  • I went to three stores to see where I could find the best prices for my family of four.

While inflation has come down quite a bit since its peak in June 2022, one place where Americans

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Speaker Johnson says Republicans will move forward with their controversial impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas next week

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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  • House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to move forward with a historic impeachment.
  • Johnson wants his party to vote as soon as next week on impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
  • But even some Republicans have been reticent about a potential unprecedented impeachment.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that his party will move

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Meet a startup trying to keep your screen time from destroying the planet

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Demand for data centers is expected to grow as companies use AI.

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  • A data center somewhere is powering your online shopping and binge watching.
  • Data centers run 24/7 and consume vast amounts of energy and water.
  • Startups like JetCool are part of an estimated $2 billion industry seeking to cool microchips with liquid.

Sending emails. Shopping online. Scrolling social media

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Apple's rivals aren't happy about its EU App Store changes

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Last year, the European Union implemented new laws to make big tech open up its platforms to competitors. The deadline for compliance is March, and all eyes were on how Apple, which is famous for not playing nicely with others, would react. Now the company has set out how it will comply with the law, and the result is the sort of malicious compliance everyone was expecting. Similarly, the reaction

The Biden administration will pause new gas export projects

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In this marshy coastal region between Texas and Louisiana, the proliferation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects, massive facilities that receive and liquefy gas from pipelines, then transfer the LNG to ships for export, unsettles residents, who consider the plants to be a threat to their coast. | Photo by FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty Images

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How to keep track of friends and family on your iPhone

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I fully get why some people might be wary of letting other people see their location constantly, but for me, location sharing tools such as Find My and Google Maps have only had advantages. They mean not having dozens of back-and-forth texts about which bar everyone is currently at, for example, or not needing to text “I’ll be five minutes

NSA admits to buying Americans’ web browsing data from brokers without warrants

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The National Security Agency’s director has confirmed that the agency buys Americans’ web browsing data from brokers without first obtaining warrants. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) blocked the appointment of the NSA’s inbound director Timothy Haugh until the agency answered his questions regarding its collection of Americans’ location and Internet data. Wyden said he’d been trying for three years to