14 Gifts for People Who Are Perpetually Cold (2024)

It’s getting cold outside, and it’s even worse for a person who’s always cold. The first crisp morning of the season sends your poor, perpetually cold loved one diving under the bedsheets, digging for the fuzzy socks, or fiddling with the thermostat when your back is turned. (Don’t look—they’re probably doing it right now.) This…

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Which Brands Make the Most Reliable Appliances?

Yet again, Speed Queen sits atop our rankings and is the only brand to achieve a top Overall Score (though it makes appliances for only two product categories, washers and dryers—see chart below). And once again Viking landed at the bottom of our chart, joined this year by another elite brand, Dacor, which also received…

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Quietest Midsized SUVs From Consumer Reports’ Tests

Below, we’ve identified the quietest two- and three-row midsized SUVs in order of their results in our interior noise tests. Plus, all of them are recommended, meaning they scored well in our road tests, have good reliability, and performed well in crash tests. All come standard with automatic emergency braking (AEB) with pedestrian detection, AEB…

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