Forgive me for starting with a cliché, a piece of finance jargon that has recently slipped into the tech lexicon, but I’m afraid I must talk about “moats.” Popularized decades ago by Warren Buffett to refer to a company’s competitive advantage, the word found its way into Silicon Valley pitch decks when a memo purportedly…
On November 8, an offer for loyalty card holders appeared on the website of MediaWorld, a European electronics retailer. The deal: an iPad Air for 15 euros (about $17) instead of the usual €879 (about $1,012). No catch, no strings attached. The proximity to Black Friday only made the offer more plausible. And so several…
Update Dec, 22, 2025: Prompted by this investigation, Instacart has stopped offering technology that allowed grocery retailers to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries at the same time. Learn more about that change, as well as legislative and regulatory responses to our findings. This article is part of Consumer Reports’ Make the Price…
With this reinvention, the Highlander now faces fresh rivals in the electric-only space, especially the Kia EV9 and related Hyundai Ioniq 9. It’s the fourth battery-electric vehicle in the Toyota lineup (after the bZ, bZ Woodland, and C-HR) and the automaker’s first three-row EV. The company claims it will soon offer 22 models with electrified…
Michael Calore: OK. What is it that you love about it? Leah Feiger: The chaos, the boring, boring chaos. It’s like, for sure, it’s high stakes for these people. These are real people with real lives and real feelings, but it’s, every single episode is like, “I just love you so much, but I don’t…
I’m mostly pleased with the EufyMake Studio software. If you aren’t already comfortable working in Photoshop or other image-editing software, you’ll want to spend a bit of time getting to know how layers and transparency work, as well as brushing up on dots per inch (dpi) and image types, assuming you’re going to print custom…
The farthest journey in human history concluded Friday evening when NASA’s Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth after a flight around the moon. The crew’s Orion space capsule named Integrity splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego shortly after 5 pm Pacific Time, marking the end of a 10-day, more…
For example, people who remove their hearing aids frequently and might drop the case, those who might get caught in the rain, and those who find themselves in situations where there’s excessive dust or extreme temperatures might need a case designed to handle those conditions, like the Phirunty case I recommend below. A CR market…
As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. So, naturally, Anthropic researchers were eager to see what would happen if Claude tried taking control of a robot—in this case, a robot dog. In…
At 2:30 am Eastern time on Saturday, President Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account announcing that the US had joined Israel in launching attacks on Iran. His next post, just two hours later, appeared to suggest that the attacks were, at least in part, motivated by a wild claim that Iran…