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Buying a new car is always exciting at first, but it can take a little while before you realize your ride is more lemon than luxury. Consumer Reports surveyed owners of recently-purchased cars to see which models caused the most buyer’s remorse.

AppDynamics has  revealed its filing for a U.S. IPO.  The IT company, which helps businesses like Salesforce and IBM with applications management, is targeting a $100 million offering. Despite a competitive landscape, which includes New Relic and Dynatrace, AppDynamics has shown strong revenue growth over the past year. For the nine months ending in October, revenue came in $158.4 million, compared to $102.8 million in same period during the year prior, driven by strong growth in subscriptions.

Earlier this month, Amazon celebrated the  first successful drone delivery  made by its  Prime Air  service.  But that's just the beginning of Amazon's aerial assault into our homes, if a recently unearthed  patent filing  is to be believed. A possible endgame for the drone delivery agenda: The use of roving "airborne fulfillment centers" (AFCs) to make Prime deliveries.

The high-flying Aerial screensaver is one of my  favorite things about the 4th generation Apple TV . It looks so cool I often find myself watching it instead of catching up on my Netflix shows. Here’s how to get it on your Mac or PC.

I have a little note that I continuously update and save (using  Evernote ) that’s full of little tips and strategies that I learn about or think about and want to include in a post at some point. Eventually, I wind up with a big collection of them. Here are eight of those ideas, little strategies for shopping so that you’ll spend less money and wind up with fewer things that you don’t really need. 1. The best place to make a decision about whether or not to buy something is before you ever enter the store.  Yes, I’ve written many times about the value of a grocery list, but it goes even further than that.  You should never walk into a store without the intent of buying something and without knowing almost exactly what you’re going to buy.

1. Being an early riser.  You’ve heard the saying that time is money. You’ve also heard the saying that the early bird gets the worm. Mash these adages together, and you can distill both down to the idea that the earlier you wake up, the more money-making time you can maximize. There are countless benefits to waking up early. Me, I like to wake up early so that I can answer emails, consider what will go on during the  day and do reading and research for the day ahead. Basically, I use this time to deal with things that might get in my way throughout the course of the day, so that by the time the market opens, I’m mentally prepared.

If  a simulation by the Center for Naval Analyses  (CNA) has it right, mankind is inching toward a dystopian future where  food   shortage   will  trigger riots and wars. That might be stretching it a bit, but the upcoming  food   shortage   crisis  is serious, and the CNA, a federally funded research and development center, believes  food  production  will  permanently fall short of consumption.

Google Home brings most of  Google’s awesome voice commands  to your living room, but it also has a couple tricks of its own. For example, you can use it to play musical notes so you can get in tune.

You want to live stream to YouTube but don’t want to spend much money to do so, MakeUseOf has a guide for setting up a Raspberry Pi as a live streaming device that’ll broadcast automatically.

Over the past year, the Internet has had a field day with Trump and  Hillary Clinton 's respective campaigns, and now that the election is over, and we have a racist pig as our next president, the people of Twitter are FREAKING out! Sure, if Hillary won, Donald's supporters probably would have spread all kinds of hate online, but seeing as how Clinton's backers are a bit more peaceful to say the least, it seems they just don't know what to do with themselves!

Android: When you  install a custom ROM on your phone , it probably doesn’t come with Google’s suite of apps. OpenGApps helps make it easier to get all the apps you need quickly. The Open GApps project has existed for a while, but you  had to download it directly from its site . Now, the project has its own app on the Play Store. Simply install it on your phone and select “Install” from the slide out menu. The app will then help you pick the Google apps package you need. It will detect which version of Android you’re running, which architecture the apps need to be built for, and more. This makes it super easy to get the right package every time.

Snapchat may soon be your go-to destination for movie tickets. The photo sharing app may be moving close to a more regular ticket buying experience, according to an executive at movie ticketing company Fandango.  

Robots have been used for everything from  greeting bank customers  to  grabbing a slice  of pizza — and now they seem to be venturing further into law enforcement. A six-hour police standoff in a Southern California desert ended on Sept. 8 when a robot was used by police to take away the rifle of an attempted murder suspect.

You need to keep reading! Because small business marketing doesn't have to be costly. The following small business marketing ideas will help you (re)discover your love for marketing and show you how you can promote yourself to eager new clients who’re dying to find a business like yours! Large companies and giant corporations may be able to funnel hundreds or even thousands of dollars to market their brand to new customers at the drop of a hat, but that doesn’t mean that, as a new small business owner, you need to do the same in order to stay in the game.

Overview Python is a wonderful programming language and much more. One of its weakest points is packaging. This is a well-known fact in the community. Installing, importing, using and creating packages has improved over the years, but it's still not on par with newer languages like Go and Rust that could learn a lot from the struggles of Python and other more mature languages.  In this tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know to build and share your own packages. For general background on Python packages, please read  How to Use Python Packages .