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Stuck at Home, Men in Japan Learn to Help. Will It Last?

TOKYO — Susumu Kataoka was just looking for a diversion from long days sheltering at home with his family during the coronavirus outbreak. He grabbed his drone and took it for a spin around their Tokyo house, snapping some pictures and posting them on Facebook. His wife, Aki, was not …

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Facebook acquires Giphy to integrate with Instagram

(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $ …

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Optimzing Showers for Money and Time

Over the last few months, I’ve written a few articles on how to “optimize” particular common household tasks in terms of both money and time. I’ve written about laundry, dishwashing, and meal planning and grocery shopping. A few readers have popped in stating that they like the series and asking …

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