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Photo by Syda Productions / Shutterstock.com This story comes from partner site DealNews.com. To say that 2020 has been a weird year is an understatement. And that weirdness is going to carry over into Black Friday. From spread-out sales to fewer in-store deals, we cover the ways COVID-19 will impact …

Photo by Solarisys / Shutterstock.com Social Security recipients likely already know that their benefits get a bump almost every year to counteract the effect of inflation. But that cost-of-living adjustment is just one of several annual tweaks to the Social Security system. These annual changes affect people who are already …

Can’t concentrate? Losing sleep? Binge-eating your feelings? In a year of unprecedented stress, the nation collectively appears to be heading toward peak anxiety this week. People are sharing stories of stress eating, clearing their calendars (who could sit through a Zoom meeting during a time like this?) and threatening to …

Collective Arcana / Shutterstock.com November kicks off a two-month spending spree that traditionally doesn’t end until the new year begins. As with just about everything else in 2020, the holidays will be different this year, with smaller, more-subdued celebrations and a holiday shopping season that could well take place mostly …

Backyard gardens are putting forth the last of their bounty, and late summer vegetables are at their peak of freshness. To squeeze every last drop out of your harvest, give fermentation a try. Fermented vegetables date back hundreds of years. Back before we had freezers, people had to preserve food …

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Facebook launched an independent oversight board and recommitted to privacy reforms this week, but after years of promises made and broken, nobody seems convinced that real change is afoot. The Federal …

As if parents didn’t have enough to worry about, here’s a new cause for alarm: Coronavirus cases in the United States are climbing toward a third peak, troubling epidemiologists. Cases are rising to record levels in nearly half the states in the country, driven by uncontrolled outbreaks in the Midwest …

Raise your hand if you’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed. Aside from the fact that being in the middle of a pandemic makes everything more stressful, you’ve got work obligations and family commitments, then there are food choices to make, at-home workouts you think you should be doing, and non-stretchy …

Cookie Studio / Shutterstock.com Sometimes, the best way to save money is simply to stop wasting it. Unnecessary expenses can eat away at your bank account without providing any real benefit. Taken one by one, these everyday spending errors might seem small, but they can add up to thousands of …