Is there a more natural place for someone to really floor it for the first time in an electric car than the ballyhooed DirtFish Rally School outside Seattle, Washington? With the gravel wet from a day of cool, classic, spring Pacific Northwest rain? Surely there must be. And yet, here I am, behind the wheel…
Just keep in mind that not all inverter generators perform equally well. Under demanding conditions, some models simply fail to deliver the power that’s promised, according to our tests. Our generator ratings (available to CR members) feature brands you’ll see whether you’re shopping at an online retailer, a home center, or a dealer: Briggs &…
A storm that hit Dunlap, Indiana, during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in 1965 spawned twin tornadoes that cycled around one another just as we see in the film. Those twins were memorialized in one of the most well-known photographs in weather history. Larger tornadoes are often made up of smaller vortices circulating within a…
A good car insurance policy should give you all the resources you need to get your life back on track if you’ve damaged your vehicle or injured yourself or others in a crash. A bad policy could leave you in the lurch when you’re at your most vulnerable. You don’t want to be chasing down…
Later in the year, Google will imbue Gemini Live with Project Astra, the computer vision tech it teased at its developer conference in May. This will allow you to use your phone’s camera app and, in real time, ask Gemini about the objects you are looking at in the real world. Imagine walking past a…
For those who don’t want to join a gym, a doorway pull-up bar can be a useful exercise equipment at home. And if you don’t have room for an elliptical machine or a treadmill, a pull-up bar, which you can mount above your doorframe, is a great space saver. Exercises that you can do on…
Consumer Reports’ tests expose the value and limitations of this common feature By Jeff S. Bartlett Drivers are eager to boost fuel economy when gas prices are elevated. Could it be as simple as selecting the “Eco” mode found in many late-model cars and SUVs? To find out, we tested Eco mode in several vehicles undergoing…
For the new study, the researchers selected 16 popular blood pressure devices from Amazon.com in January 2024, choosing devices that ranked highly in search, number of purchases, and number of ratings over the previous month. They ruled out six devices that were either unavailable or came with a wrist cuff instead of an arm cuff….
Podcasts are to radio as streaming services are to television, and we are lucky enough to be living through the golden age of both. You can find a podcast about almost anything these days, but with great choice comes great mediocrity—you might need a helping hand to find the podcasts worthy of your ear. Our…
During testing, we outfit each refrigerator with thermocouples in a climate-controlled chamber and monitor it for a month, collecting more than 5.4 million temperature readings that identify warm and cold spots, to determine which models will keep your food fresh longer. We also factor in survey data from thousands of CR members to judge brand…