When the power cuts out, you need light that comes on instantly and predictably, not a scramble for flashlights and a maze of extension cords. The safest approach is to design backup lighting into the ...

Freezing temperatures combined with moisture from rain, ice, and snow can lead to cracking and other damage. Even items that ...

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Ever driven past a house and thought everything looks fine on the outside? The lawn's mowed, the paint's fresh, the shutters ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...

If you’re lucky enough to have a patio, balcony, or any kind of backyard space, the best outdoor lights will let you enjoy the fresh air around the clock. That said, beyond aesthetics, functionality ...

Abstract: In electrical power systems, cords and extension cords are exposed to mechanical damage and other insulation stresses. Mechanical damage to stranded conductors can reduce locally their cross ...

Apple’s Macintosh was introduced shortly after the IBM PC, but it didn’t experience the same surge of malware attacks and antivirus software that the PC did. For quite some time, Apple claimed that ...

Abstract: Advances in DNA-sequencing technology have far outpaced Moore's law, imposing significant challenges on the computationally intensive secondary analysis in the sequencing pipeline. An ...

A proposed hotel, spa and condos that capitalize on Carlsbad’s 135-year-old mineral water wells got ...