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Consumer Reports spearheads new privacy, security standard for electronic products

Thirty years ago plenty of people had personal computers that weren’t connected to the internet. These days everything from the phones in our pockets to the locks on our front doors might have internet access. On the one hand, that can make life a lot of convenient. You can monitor your home security system from […]

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Apple updates MacBook Pro software after Consumer Reports finds wildly variable battery life

A few weeks ago Consumer Reports announced that it could not recommend the latest MacBook Pro laptops, making them the first MacBook models that the product rating agency couldn’t give a Recommended rating. While the laptops performed well in most performance and display quality tests, the problem was battery life: it was wildly inconsistent. Sometimes […]