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Amazon's Alexa and Dash Services Would Like to Control Your Home
Amazon's Alexa and Dash Services Would Like to Control Your Home Amazon hasn’t held any big events or built a big, splashy booth at CES 2016 (which isn’t a surprise, lots of big tech companies such as...
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Keep Energy Costs Down When Temperatures Drop
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Laundry Innovations That Remove the Daily Drudgery
Laundry Innovations That Remove the Daily Drudgery The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is about way more than TVs, cellphones, and drones. Some of the most innovative new products on the...
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Get a Grip With Slip-On Ice Cleats
Get a Grip With Slip-On Ice Cleats Clearing snow is riskier when you can’t keep your balance. Consumer Reports tested four slip-on ice cleats on a sheet of thick ice that we tilted to varying slopes,...
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Small Appliance All-Stars for Your Counter
Small Appliance All-Stars for Your Counter Small-appliance manufacturers would love for you to outfit your entire kitchen with their products, even offering small-appliance suites in matching colors...
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The Secrets to Buying a Great Gas Grill
The Secrets to Buying a Great Gas Grill Now that the holiday decorations are out of stores you’ll start to see gas grills in their place—just in time for the Super Bowl. Consumer Reports has tested...
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Turn a Bad Air Day Into a Clean Air Day
Turn a Bad Air Day Into a Clean Air Day Many of the things we do to keep energy costs down in winter, such as fixing drafty doors and leaky windows, can also seal in pesky pollutants and irritants. To...
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Doing Hard Time on Your Mattress?
Doing Hard Time on Your Mattress? A mattress dealer we talked to jokingly referred to the few bottom-dollar mattresses in his store as “prison mattresses,” models that no one would sleep on...
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From Our Experts: How to Find the Right Exercise Equipment
From Our Experts: How to Find the Right Exercise Equipment Peter Anzalone has been a tester for Consumer Reports for almost a decade. With degrees in mechanical engineering, dance, and advanced...
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8 Ways to Boost Your Home Value
8 Ways to Boost Your Home Value When Alec and Jennifer Harmes spent $264,900 for their first home in 2011—a 1,500-square-foot ranch fixer-upper in Austin, Texas—they assumed they would be living...
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The Real State of Real Estate
The Real State of Real Estate Forget all of the old stereotypes about American housing—starting with the notion that only families with a mom, a dad, and 2.2 kids buy homes. Since the Great Recession,...
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Top Countertop Trends for 2016
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If You Want Drier Dishes, Use Dishwasher Rinse Aid
If You Want Drier Dishes, Use Dishwasher Rinse Aid If you want your dry dishes at the end of a cycle, we have three words of advice: Use rinse aid. Dishwashers dry items in a variety of ways. Some use...
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Market for Home Pizza Ovens Heats Up
Market for Home Pizza Ovens Heats Up Most Americans get their pizza fresh from the pizzeria or from the supermarket, in the form of frozen pies. But there's a growing appetite for pizza made from...
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Is the Keurig Kold Drinkmaker Cool Enough for Your Counter?
Is the Keurig Kold Drinkmaker Cool Enough for Your Counter? When GE introduced a refrigerator with a Keurig K-cup coffee maker in the door, it seemed like a smart way to save counterspace. But in a...
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A Fitness Tracker Can Be Good Exercise Motivation
A Fitness Tracker Can Be Good Exercise Motivation Q. Will a fitness tracker help me get more exercise? A. Maybe. Snapping a trendy tracker on your wrist that monitors your steps taken and calories...
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How Single-Serve Coffee Makers Compare in Taste Tests
How Single-Serve Coffee Makers Compare in Taste Tests Fans of single-serve coffee makers that take soft pods or hard-shell capsules like Keurig’s K-cups tend to value fast brewing, fuss-free...
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Get Ready for Winter Storm Jonas
Get Ready for Winter Storm Jonas Compared to last winter, this season has been a breeze on the East Coast, but that’s about to change with an approaching storm that could dump as much as two-feet of...
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Modern Toilet Gets a High-Tech Makeover
Modern Toilet Gets a High-Tech Makeover The high-tech modern toilet is enjoying a star turn at the moment, even making a commode cameo in the hit series "Transparent." In one episode, the Sarah...
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Virtual Reality Can Eliminate Remodeling Mistakes Before They Happen
Virtual Reality Can Eliminate Remodeling Mistakes Before They Happen Virtual reality has been making waves in the gaming and entertainment industries, where it brings users right into the action. Now...
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