For Twice-a-Day PillsSafety 1st Medicine Reminder, $5 for a pack of 2Designed to hook onto medicine bottles, this soft-press dot system indicates when a.m. and p.m. doses were taken. “It’s straightforward and effective,” Ojageer says.Shop: Walmart, Target Digital Reminders for Every DoseMyTherapy, free on app storesSetting alarms for all of your meds means you’re less…
Data breaches are a seemingly endless scourge with no simple answer, but the breach in recent months of the background-check service National Public Data illustrates just how dangerous and intractable they have become. And after four months of ambiguity, the situation is only now beginning to come into focus with National Public Data finally acknowledging…
Family Hub, Family Hub+, and AI Family Hub+ It’s confusing, but Samsung offers three different versions of its Family Hub tablet and camera system in various Bespoke fridges. To begin, the plain old Family Hub features a 21.5-inch touchscreen and three internal cameras to let you view the contents of your fridge while you’re out…
Ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus, known as H5N1, is also increasingly adapting to mammals and has been found in cats, goats, and raccoons. In the US, it has spread to at least 170 dairy herds across 13 states. And in…
Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform. The CPSC unanimously voted to hold Amazon legally responsible for third-party sellers’ defective products. Now, Amazon must make a CPSC-approved…
A cup of cooked buckwheat has 4 grams of fiber. Much of it is the soluble type, which may help reduce cholesterol levels. It’s also rich in resistant starch. This form of carbohydrate is similar to fiber in that it isn’t digested, so it doesn’t raise blood sugar (glucose), and it acts as a prebiotic,…
In addition to cataloging all of that—and much more—CR’s test engineers launder swatches of fabric stained with red wine and cocoa, among other things, to see how well each machine cleans. We test top-loaders with agitators, high-efficiency (HE) top-loaders (the type without a vertical spindle), and front-loaders, including compact front-loaders. We also test all-in-one washer-dryers,…
Not everything needs to reinvent the wheel. Iterating on products year over year has produced some of the best wireless headphones money can buy, and that’s precisely the route Nothing is going with its latest earbuds, the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a). Sure, at its founding the company vowed to do so much more…
Once you decide a hand mixer can be your go-to for baking to-do’s, take note of its features. Some are more important than others. Attachments: Hand mixers typically come with wire beaters, and some also include whisk or dough hook attachments. Whisks have even thinner wires than the standard wire beaters and are designed to…
They simmer steadily. They have a low-heat burner that’s capable of maintaining a steady temperature when simmering liquids, so you don’t need to stir constantly to avoid scorching, say, tomato sauce or chocolate. They bake and broil evenly. Cakes and cookies emerge uniformly baked from multiple racks. And the broilers heat evenly while still getting hot enough…
