“You can fool yourself into thinking those ‘fun size’ packages are small, so you can eat a lot of them,” says Amy Keating, R.D., a CR nutritionist. But calories and added sugars can add up fast To help you keep your consumption in check, we calculated the exact amount of 22 trick-or-treat favorites you can…
Smart home gadgets have no limits these days. You can control everything from a garage door to every single light bulb in your house … if you have enough gusto to replace them all. Front doors have had smart accessories added to them over the years—smart door locks, video doorbells, sensors to tell you whether…
While the essentials will cover most tasks, you might also consider adding these tools for more specific projects: • Safety gear—like latex gloves, safety goggles, and dusk masks—are crucial for preventing injuries from debris, chemicals, or unexpected hazards that can arise during repairs and maintenance tasks. • A stud finder helps locate studs in the…
Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. That’s still good advice, in that the GoPro ranks high on our list and is our top pick for most adventure-seeking photographers, but there are also some worthy competitors, some of which can do more than the GoPro. To figure out which cameras…
Painting a bathroom can be trickier than painting other areas in your house. Unlike larger rooms where furniture and decorative objects can be moved completely out of the way, in a bathroom there’s a lot more maneuvering you have to do as you paint around fixtures like sinks, toilets, tubs, and showers. To get a…
It’s difficult to make a fair head-to-head comparison between, say, a six-year loan and the standard three-year lease. At the point the lease ends, the bank borrower still has three years of payments to go, but the lessee has to look for another car—or perhaps take the lease’s buyout offer. A lease can also be…
US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International Space Station, elements of which are now more than a quarter of a century old. However, a new report confirms that NASA managers responsible for operating the space station are seriously concerned about a small Russian part…
if you’re bored with your home screen, I have good news for you. With iOS 18, you can finally personalize it however you’d like. You can now change the color of app icons and widgets (and even match them to your wallpaper), change the size to make them look larger, and place them anywhere you’d…
Our tests use rising water levels to recreate a main system failure. Flow rates are measured based on a 10-foot vertical lift, with each pump hooked up to a 10-foot vertical discharge pipe. Testers determine the flow rate by weighing a collection barrel before and after our tests to calculate gallons per minute. For battery-powered…
To find the best glass cleaners, we tested eight glass cleaners from six of the most popular brands to see how well they clean toothpaste remnants, lipstick stains, and other debris on glass surfaces. All of the products we tested cleaned non-tinted windows and mirrors well. But only some manufacturers claimed their product to be…