It has now been eight weeks since Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched into orbit on an Atlas V rocket, bound for the International Space Station. At the time NASA officials said the two crew members, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, could return to Earth as soon as June 14, just eight days later. Yes, there had…
Still, Disney+ is compelling. The company owns Lucasfilm (the “Star Wars” franchise), Marvel Studios (“The Avengers,” “Black Panther”), and Pixar (“Toy Story,” “Up”). The recent acquisition of 20th Century Fox gives it 20th Century Studios (“The Simpsons”) and the lion’s share of National Geographic content, too. Disney+’s updated library of content includes such movies as…
I was surprised to learn that canned cocktails aren’t a new invention but have existed since the early 20th century. They’re descended from bottled cocktails, which saloons sold in the 1860s and perhaps earlier, according to David Wondrich, a cocktail historian and author of “Imbibe!”, which won a James Beard Award. By the 1890s, ready-to-drink…
The Swiss company CompPair focuses on composites with the goal of making products more repairable. Its hallmark composites rely on what CompPair calls HealTech technology to create a healable surface. The way it works is that when something gets scratched or dinged, heating up the resins that hold fibers together could soften them and let…
In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent. According to a new lawsuit filed by US authorities, TikTok immediately breached that order and now faces penalties of $51,744 per violation per day. TikTok “knowingly allowed…
To help steer you to the best choices, we’ve assembled a list of the most fuel-efficient nonhybrid compact cars from the 2019 model year. All got 32 mpg overall or better when we tested them, performed well enough in our tests to be recommended when new, and have average or better reliability according to CR’s…
Although a majority of the sheet sets on the market are cotton, not all cotton sets are alike. Our tests prove that, while also busting other sheet-shopping myths. For instance, though manufacturers may tout the thread count of their sheets (typically ranging anywhere from 200 to 800), that number doesn’t have any impact on quality…
We’ve listed them in order of their Overall Score, which is a combination of all those factors. Though we tested more expensive all-wheel-drive versions of some of these, we also recommend the more affordable front-wheel-drive versions, if they’re sold that way. Some of these models have our Green Choice designation, which highlights vehicles with the cleanest emissions….
In a move likely to raise a few taxpayer eyebrows, Intel said today that it will cut 15 percent of its workforce, or more than 15,000 jobs, as it struggles to rebound from disappointing results. In March, the US government said it would give Intel no less than $8.5 billion to help it rebuild its…
They started with fliers. The group of World of Warcraft developers at Activision Blizzard, determined to unionize, were testing the waters after Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition. Microsoft had pledged to honor a labor neutrality agreement, active 60 days after the deal’s close, that would allow workers to explore collective bargaining without fear. Even with that…