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If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser

Meet the private browsersFirefox Focus, DuckDuckGo and Brave are all similar, but with some important differences.Firefox Focus, available only for mobile devices like iPhones and Android smartphones, is bare-bones. You […]




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Buy This NFT Column on the Blockchain!

Foundation makes minting an NFT easy, but adding it to the Ethereum blockchain can be expensive. It requires paying a “gas fee” — a kind of congestion tax that is […]







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The Triple Tax Break You May Be Missing: A Health Savings Account

The federal government’s pandemic relief program expanded what H.S.A.s can pay for, including nonprescription medicine like pain relief and allergy pills, and menstrual products like tampons and pads. (The I.R.S. […]




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Where’s My Stimulus Payment? Maybe in Your Account. (Finally!)

Demand for information hardly slowed Wednesday: Wells Fargo said heavy traffic had temporarily caused problems for its online banking service. “This does not affect stimulus payments with March 17 effective […]




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How to Get a Peloton-Style Workout Without Splurging

Lisa Whitney, a dietitian in Reno, Nev., came across the deal of a lifetime about two years ago. A fitness studio was going out of business and selling its equipment. […]




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A New Generation of Wi-Fi to Improve Your Home Network

When the pandemic upended our lives, many of us were forced to stay home and shift our work and hobbies to the internet. Office meetings and classrooms were replaced with […]




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How to Buy a Real N95 Mask Online

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, buying a heavy-duty medical mask online remains downright maddening.The most coveted mask to keep safe against Covid-19 has been the N95, the gold standard […]







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Is My Stimulus Payment Taxable? And Other Tax Questions

Ms. Long generally recommends that people getting unemployment benefits choose to have at least 10 percent withheld for taxes to avoid unwelcome surprises.You’ll probably also owe state income taxes on […]