If you’re running out of storage space on your laptop or you need to back up your data and store that backlog of videos you’re going to edit one day (I am, I swear), an external hard drive can solve your problem. The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt-cheap to…
More Family Board Games Photograph: Simon Hill There are so many family board games. Here are a few more we liked. In a World for $28: Someone reads out an “In a World,” card which might say “where we are setting up a colony on a distant planet,” and then the players read out “We…
In this podcast episode, hosts Tanya Christian and Brian Vines help you conquer chaos by delivering the tips and tools for starting the new year with a clean home. Their guests this week: Consumer Reports home and trends writer Jodhaira Rodriguez and CR laundry expert Rich Handel, who drop serious insight on keeping it clean…
If you want a folding phone and you want a Pixel, this is more or less the best option. However, if you just want the best booklike folding phone, there’s strong competition from this year’s Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7. I’ll be putting these two devices head-to-head to find out which is better, so stay tuned….
Keith Flamer Keith Flamer has been a multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports since 2021, covering laundry, cleaning, small appliances, and home trends. Fascinated by interior design, architecture, technology, and all things mechanical, he translates CR’s testing engineers’ work into content that helps readers live better, smarter lives. Prior to CR, Keith covered luxury accessories…
At Anthropic’s first court hearing challenging sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, the AI tech startup asked the government to commit that it wouldn’t levy additional penalties on the company. That didn’t happen. “I am not prepared to offer any commitments on that issue,” James Harlow, a Justice Department attorney, told US district judge Rita…
Decide What You Want Under the Bed“Consider what you want vs. need to store underneath—the frequency of use, accessibility, and space constraints,” says Jeanie Engelbach, professional organizer and founder of Apartmentjeanie. “If the plan is to extend the storage capacity of your wardrobe, then you want category-specific storage rather than bigger containers that hold more.”…
A gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last weekend, while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other administration officials were in attendance. Media reports and Trump himself quickly identified the suspected shooter as 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist Cole Tomas Allen. The California resident was arrested at…
The report says that data from acoustic sensors and strain gauges on board indicated that the hull had suffered a delamination after a dive to the Titanic in 2022, causing a loud bang. Rush was said to have dismissed that noise, and the report found that there was no one left at the company in…
I used to feel as if something was missing if I went out without my water bottle, as if I’d left my house without my shoes or my phone. And yet I didn’t love my water bottle. It didn’t keep my water cold enough and didn’t come in a size I preferred. After testing seven…