The best baby gates should also be easy to install and easy for adults to open. We also looked for baby gates that aren’t likely to be kept open accidentally. They also stay put even as a child pushes or pulls on them. “Those will stand up best to inquisitive children,” says Bernie Deitrick, who…
What’s at stake: Many consumers know that much of what they do online is being watched and recorded, and that the information collected is often bought, sold, and used by marketers to sell us products. What fewer of us may recognize is the vastness of this “surveillance economy,” and the extent to which each of…
Run times have improved. Several battery and self-propelled mowers in our ratings offer impressive run times of 70 or more minutes. (The average run time of battery mowers in our tests is 45 to 50 minutes.) Some manufacturers are designing new models with multiple battery slots. When one battery is spent, another can take over,…
Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed Tokyo games it was Covid. And at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer? Take your pick. Authorities have been working to contain both dengue and measles, which have been on the…
Some pets can go as far as harming themselves. Others may cling to their owners, destroy property, soil the house, or injure themselves when they experience fireworks, says Tristan Rehner-Fleurant, senior director of behavioral rehabilitation at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Behavioral Rehabilitation Center in Weaverville, N.C. Frantic attempts to…
Team Trump might also struggle to reach its usual base this year, meaning they’ll need to rely on alternatives. Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported that traffic belonging to the top 10 conservative and right-wing news sites has gone down 40 percent since the last presidential election, in 2020. It was these outlets, like Breitbart,…
The announcement on Thursday is not quite a full recall; two third-party sellers that sold some of these loungers on Amazon, also from China, have agreed to recalls and are providing refunds, but the original manufacturer that the CPSC believes made all of them has not agreed to one. The “loungers were sold in multiple…
Despite their popularity, French-door refrigerators as a group are not very reliable. Except for the high-end brand Fisher & Paykel, most French-door brands received a middling or worse score for predicted reliability in our latest member survey. Those results also reveal that Kenmore and LG French-doors are more prone to having compressors that break or…
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…
Out of the travel backpacks we evaluated, the Thule Crossover Backpack 32L is a business traveler’s friend—with exceptional organization and comfort. This large pack has interior organization to rival the Patagonia Black Hole Mini MLC for longer travel. But crammed to capacity, it wasn’t quite as comfy without a waist strap as the Patagonia or…
