Connie Park/NYT Wirecutter Upgrade pick If you’re willing to pay for laptop power in a tablet, the iPad Air is the tablet for you. The 6th-generation Apple iPad Air (M2) isn’t quite as advanced as an iPad Pro, but it comes close—for far less than Apple’s most powerful tablet costs. It has a bright LCD…
CBS Sports Fantasy has two tiers: a free level, with no customization options (you’re stuck with a 12-team league and bog-standard scoring rules), or a $150 paid tier, which gives you the customization options found in platforms like Yahoo or our pick. Considering how many services offer these options for free, we can’t recommend spending…
Brent Butterworth/NYT Wirecutter Top pick This stereo integrated amp adds Wi-Fi streaming to deliver potentially better sound than you can get over Bluetooth, plus an HDMI ARC port and subwoofer output. But the front-panel design is almost too simplistic. The WiiM Amp is the integrated amp to get if you want to stream audio over…
Twice a year people across 70 countries experience time travel. In the US, people whisper to themselves “Spring forward, fall back” like a quiet chant to recall which direction they’re going on the second Sunday of March, when the clocks move an hour ahead, and on the first Sunday of November, when time winds an hour…
The Levoit Sprout is the company’s first evaporative model that we’ve tested, and we appreciated that nearly every part is dishwasher-safe (with the exception of the fan enclosure, which has electrical components). Unfortunately, it costs $190, and it left a roughly 10% difference in the relative humidity level across the room—a result made more frustrating…
Delicate leafy herbs can be unforgiving and wilt quickly in the refrigerator, but this herb keeper has kept my greens perky and vibrant for a week, if not longer. During the peak of the pandemic, when grocery shopping was challenging and inventory was low, my obsession with keeping greens from rapidly wilting reached an all-time…
Underwire bras If you want an affordable, smoothing bra that comes in lots of colors: The Aerie Smoothez Full Coverage Lightly Lined Bra is made of a soft, nylon-elastane material with smooth, barely visible seams. It has supportive underwire and an adjustable band, and it comes in cup sizes from A to G, band sizes…
“I have the elbows of an elephant!” I called out from the bathroom, not for the first time. The usual fixes—exfoliating, moisturizing, painting the worst patches with prescription steroids, slugging with Aquaphor—weren’t working. My skin remained stubbornly, painfully chapped. Luckily for me, by the time my birthday rolled around, I’d complained loudly and often enough…
ROSIE: Hey, it’s Rosie from The Wirecutter Show, and this is a special bonus episode called How to Survive Daylight Saving Time. This coming Sunday, March 9th, marks the start of Daylight Saving Time, or DST, the time of year we spring ahead and advance our clocks forward one hour. We spend the majority of…
Dorie Chevlen/NYT Wirecutter Whatever the material of your curtains, the biggest concern is dust, pollen, and other debris, which make their way into the pores of the fabric. But simply dusting your curtains every few weeks or gently vacuuming them with a brush attachment when they start looking dingy is the best preventative maintenance, said…