That’s not to say there are no issues. The jog wheels are unimpressive at best. They’re helpful for finding your place in a song, but I can’t imagine trying to scratch or do any real DJ tricks with them. Limiting its usefulness in a live setting is the fact that there’s no mic input, and…
Before you start shopping, it’s good to know some tire basics. Tires carry a speed rating, usually from S (112 mph) to Y (186 mph), with some winter tires having a lower speed rating. That indicates the tire’s maximum speed when carrying a load. Higher speed-rated tires tend to have better grip and handling but…
Fortnite maker Epic Games publicly lashed out at Apple on Friday, after its latest proposal for a rival iOS App Store was rejected by the smartphone maker. The company said on X that this rejection was triggered after Apple argued the design of Epic’s app store too closely resembled its own. This decision follows Epic’s…
Shradha Agarwal, MD, an allergist and immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, says it’s common for people to develop asthma or allergies later in life, due to many factors: genetic, hormonal, environmental, and more. Whether you’re newly anointed or have been living with asthma or allergies forever, you can make some tweaks…
Will a carpet cleaner be worth it for you? Our carpet cleaner recommendations range in price from about $100 to a little over $500. Though the initial cost of buying a carpet cleaner can be higher than a one-time rental or service, after a few uses, owning a carpet cleaner generally ends up being more…
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu The phone’s edges are so thin that it might affect how you hold it for a long period, because there’s just not much for your fingers to grab. Time will tell. But once the wonder of the thinness fades away, you’ll start wondering about battery life. The S25 Edge has a 3,900-mAh…
Identifying ants can be difficult due to their small size, according to Chad Gore, PhD, entomologist and market technical director for Terminix. But it’s crucial if you want to successfully ant-proof your home. “To properly identify them often requires some level of magnification where you have to look at features on the exoskeleton, such as…
While a lot of the dishwashers from the most reliable brands tend to be expensive, cost doesn’t automatically determine reliability. “Our surveys found that paying more for a dishwasher doesn’t necessarily guarantee it’s going to be a much more reliable machine,” says Adam Troy, who oversees CR’s dishwasher brand reliability survey. Our predicted reliability ratings…
Designed to simulate the sucking or tapping sensation of oral sex, clitoral suction toys are a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of sex toy superstars. Suction toys are a bit of an outlier in the industry—vibrators and dildos have a long and occasionally misogynist history as medical instruments used to induce orgasm as treatment…
Away from the race track, paddle shifters are far less common. In CR’s survey, 60 percent of drivers who said the vehicle they drive most often had an automatic transmission said that it did not have paddle shifters. Sixteen percent said they did not know whether their vehicle had them or not. “Paddle shifters come…