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Best Places to Buy Large Appliances
These stores, as well as independent retailers and websites, earned top marks in the most recent Consumer Reports survey of appliance retailers, conducted from the winter of 2023 through the spring of 2024. The survey responses were from 9,721 CR members who shared their experiences shopping for 12,970 large appliances between January 2023 and May 2024. Overall, 17 of the…
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Best Places to Buy Small Appliances
While mega-retailer Amazon.com outperforms most of its competitors in Consumer Reports’ latest ratings of small appliance retailers, Chicagoland’s Abt takes the top spot for overall customer satisfaction. Its strong performance also bumps QVC.com—the top shop in our 2022 survey—down to fifth place. The family-owned retailer, in business since 1936, also earned the top position in our ratings of large-appliance stores,…
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Best Small Kitchen Appliances of 2024
Each year CR’s market analysts research and select hundreds of new countertop appliances to test, and we deploy a team of secret shoppers to buy each one to ensure we’re getting the same products you’ll find at retail. Our test engineers put each model through rigorous tests to see how well it performs and how convenient it is to use.…
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Smart Appliances Could Expose Your WiFi to Hacking Risks
Earlier this year, Consumer Reports researched how long appliance companies like GE, LG, and Samsung tell their customers they’ll keep their appliances’ software updated. This is important because security experts are constantly finding and fixing vulnerabilities in software—along with supplying new features—that’s why your phone and laptop get regular updates for years after you buy them. The CR researchers looked…
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How to cook without an oven: 5 alternative kitchen appliances you need right now
There are many reasons why you might be stuck without an oven. Perhaps your electric range has broken and you’re waiting for it to be replaced or repaired. You could be having a new kitchen fitted, and are having to ‘make do’ with a small makeshift cooking space in another room. You could even be living in a small apartment…
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18 Best Kitchen Appliances of 2024, Lab-Tested and Reviewed
Those results are reflected in our ratings so that consumers will have all the information they need to buy the right kitchen appliances for their home. Below, CR members with digital access can see the very best products across all the major kitchen appliances we test, organized by Overall Score. To learn more, check out our buying guides for ranges,…
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5 Ways to Save on Large Appliances This Black Friday
To be sure, inflation has had an impact on large-appliance prices. But that’s tempered this season by larger promotional discounts from manufacturers that get passed from retailers to consumers. The rising cost of materials has increased retail prices for ranges and refrigerators, says Carter’s colleague Eleni Fialo, an analyst who covers ranges for Gap Intelligence. But because the discounts are…
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Everything you need to know about the ‘mass exploitation’ of FortiManager appliances
A vulnerability in Fortinet’s network and security management tool, FortiManager, has been under “mass exploitation” for over three months, according to a report from Google’s threat intelligence arm Mandiant. CVE-2024-47575 is a missing authentication flaw affecting critical functions in FortiManager that would allow an attacker to use an unauthorized, compromised device to execute arbitrary code or commands on other FortiManager…
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My Favorite Kitchen Appliances That Are on Sale for Prime Day
We may earn a commission from links on this page.Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. For those of us who consider the kitchen our favorite room in the house, today is a good day to treat it that way. Amazon’s October Prime Days are upon us and you can update worn-out appliances or treat yourself…
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Backup by BioLite is a beefy emergency battery for your big appliances
Instead of wiring into a home’s breaker box, the Backup by BioLite home backup power solution relies on thin battery panels that can fit behind appliances to keep them running for days at a time. It’s built around two 1.5kWh lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP) batteries, the Backup Core and Backup Extend. Like any uninterruptible power supply, the Backup…
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