Jane Wells

Retailers promise to save you time and money during the holidays with online ordering programs. We tested them to see how convenient they are.

SideChef, an app designed for amateur cooks, helps teach step-by-step recipe basics to would-be chefs.

“I think Schmacon is the evolution and, frankly, it’s maybe the revolution in bacon,” says Howard Bender, creator of beef-based bacon.

Washio, a service launched in 2013, dispatches laundry “Ninjas” who pick up and wash customers’ dirty clothes.

There are only 80 agencies certified to verify that the nation’s 25,000 farms are truly growing food organically, and the system has many loopholes.

Two experienced digital hands go all analog by creating a card game called “Exploding Kittens.” How it all came to be.

Over the last 20 years, Gregg Miller claims he’s sold more than 500,000 sets of Neuticles. The average pair costs $310, though some are a lot more, like the $2,800 watermelon-sized custom set Miller made for an elephant in a zoo.

When Adie Horowitz’s daughter got lice, she thought “there has to be a better way,” so she founded Licenders.

Boeing estimates the global aviation industry will need 800,000 pilots over the next 20 years. A quarter of those new pilots will be needed for the U.S. market. Major airlines are hiring, and they’ve created special programs to recruit women in particular, showing marked progress. Even so, at American Airlines, 4.8% of the pilot staff is female.

While Thanksgiving food costs less than it did a year ago, it’s still much more expensive than it was before the pandemic.