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7 Best Water Leak Detectors (2024): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors

7Apr

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7 Best Water Leak Detectors (2024): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors

Here's what you need to think about when you shop for smart leak detectors and install them in your home.How do water leak detectors work?Water leak detectors can detect water pooling, and some can also detect water dripping or even humidity rising. Premium water leak detectors monitor the flow of water in your pipes. All connect to a hub or directly to your Wi-Fi network to send alerts when they detect a problem.What kinds of water leak detectors are there?Some water leak detectors have cables with sensors on the end, some have water-sensing cords, and others are self-contained with sensors on the top or bottom or both. You have the option of extension nodes with some detectors. At the premium end of the market, you can get water leak detectors that must be fitted to your pipework to mea...

Best Slow Cookers (2023) for Soups, Stews and Casseroles

28Dec

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Best Slow Cookers (2023) for Soups, Stews and Casseroles

Slow, low-heat cooking is perfect for delicious one-pot dishes and getting the best flavor from cheaper cuts of meat such as lamb shoulder or chicken thighs. With intuitive control panels, the best appliances allow you to throw all the ingredients into the pot, turn it on, and get on with your day while your food simmers along nicely. Prep your recipe in the morning and the keep-warm setting will ensure you have a home-cooked evening meal that’s piping hot and ready to serve come nightfall. Then all you need to do is dish up praise for your efforts from everyone at the dinner table.In our edit of the latest and greatest slow cookers, we’ve picked out designs that not only look attractive but have convenient and clever functionality. We’ve included appliances to suit both classic and moder...

5 Best Food Processors and Choppers (2023)

28Dec

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5 Best Food Processors and Choppers (2023)

If you’ve already got a blender, stand mixer, or juicer, you may feel like you’re all set for prepping for meals, but—as the best chefs will agree—no kitchen should be without a decent food processor. The perfect multitasking tool for slicing, dicing, chopping, and more, with a good food processor you’ll always feel like you’ve got an extra pair of hands helping you in the kitchen.The latest appliances can chop, shred, slice, grind, grate, dice, knead, and puree at the touch of a button. A food processor is particularly good for shredding vegetables to spice up salads and for smoothing homemade sauces such as pesto or hummus. You can also use it to puree ingredients for whatever stage you’re at in life—be it for weaning a 6-month-old baby or making champagne Bellinis for a Friday night.In...

Cottonwood Heights police officers collect money for victim who had child’s Christmas gifts stolen

24Dec

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Cottonwood Heights police officers collect money for victim who had child’s Christmas gifts stolen

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — The Christmas season can be considered the season of giving. It’s a phrase the Cottonwood Heights Police Department put into action after a burglary involving a child’s Christmas presents. The suspect or suspects had taken all of the gifts from inside a storage shed that a mother was planning on giving to her child just four days before Christmas. It happened on Thursday at an apartment complex at the intersection of Fort Union Blvd. and Union Park Avenue. “This woman did everything right. It’s not like she left the packages on the doorstep or unattended in a vehicle,” said Cottonwood Heights Police Chief Robby Russo. “She’s a hardworking person who did what she could for her family. She was able to buy these gifts and put them away and thoug...

5 Best Mattresses on Amazon (2023): Leesa, Linenspa, Zinus

14Dec

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5 Best Mattresses on Amazon (2023): Leesa, Linenspa, Zinus

Buying a mattress online is easy and efficient. A box comes to you with no need for a truck or professional movers. Just lug the bed-in-a-box inside, crack the cardboard, slash open the plastic wrap, and watch the mattress spring into shape. Want it extra fast, without having to make a new account? Order a mattress on Amazon! With Prime taking over the world, you can buy a relatively cheap mattress today and sleep on it tomorrow night.The drawback to online shopping is you can't test a showroom of mattresses until you find the perfect fit. Add in the fact that Amazon reviews can be gamed by bad actors, and it's hard to know what's worth your time and what's not. WIRED has done the work for you, spending at least a week if not longer sleeping on some of the best-rated mattresses on Amazon—...

National air show considering Wendover as future site, money needed for repairs

6Dec

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National air show considering Wendover as future site, money needed for repairs

WENDOVER — For a place known for its past, Jim Petersen is excited for what may be Wendover’s future. “This would really be a big deal. It is huge,” he said. Petersen runs the Historic Wendover Airfield, where the crew of the Enola Gay trained during World War II that would drop the first atomic bomb on Japan. Funding to maintain the place, though, has always been tough. “There are a number of buildings on the base that admittedly some of them need some work,” said Petersen. Funding on its way However, a lot more money could soon be coming. “It is something that Tooele County is willing to do and it is something that the State is on board with, too,” said Petersen. Wendover, Utah, is one of six towns being considered as the new home for the National Championship ...

7 Best Bidets (2023): Toto, Kohler, Tushy

13Nov

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7 Best Bidets (2023): Toto, Kohler, Tushy

Bidet seats are one of those luxuries you can live happily without until you realize what you're missing. My first encounter came at a ramen spot on the West Coast of the US that had imported a high-end Toto washlet from Japan, where they've been a part of daily life for decades. I might have been an early adopter, but bidets are getting more common in the US. Toto’s American sales doubled in the first quarter of 2020 and have continued to climb since. (The pandemic and the infamous toilet paper outage surely played a role.) But maybe more people are starting to realize that American bathroom habits are … gross. Think about it: When you get something on you that smells foul and is full of germs, do you want to wash it off or smear it off with a piece of paper?OK, I convinced you. So what ...

6Nov

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The Nest Is Never Truly Empty

Now that our daughter and son are grown and living elsewhere, my wife and I are often asked what it’s like to be empty nesters. Even though our children have moved away, the nest doesn’t feel empty to me. When they left, a good bit of their stuff stayed behind.Our daughter has been married a year now, but her old bedroom remains intact, a shrine to adolescent life in a previous decade. Yearbooks line the shelf, relics always neglected because young people can’t imagine needing a prompt to remember high school. There are dolls stored under the bed and some prom dresses, I think, in the closet.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Best Hair Dryers and Diffusers (2023): Blow-Dryers, Brushers, and Diffusers

29Oct

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Best Hair Dryers and Diffusers (2023): Blow-Dryers, Brushers, and Diffusers

From the time the first hair dryer was introduced for home use in the 1920s, every one looked nearly identical until Dyson debuted its Supersonic dryer in 2016, which matched the design of its bladeless fans. Now, several companies are adapting their drying tech into the lightest, thinnest package possible, looking more like a heat gun than a hair dryer (I guess these are a type of heat gun, technically).I've used these three. They're each less than a pound, relatively quiet, and have self-cleaning functions—you take the filter cover off the back and activate cleaning mode; the dryers shoot air in reverse to push dust and debris out. While each one stands out on its own, I wish I could combine all three for one perfect dryer.Chi Lava Pro for $337: This one is slightly lighter than the oth...

The Chinese Financial Crisis Nobody’s Talking About

26Oct

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The Chinese Financial Crisis Nobody’s Talking About

Economists have wondered for months whether China’s property meltdown would trigger a financial crisis. The consensus so far has been that it won’t. But perhaps the financial crisis has been here all along, right under our noses.The answer hinges on how you define the terms “financial,” “crisis” and “financial crisis.” Conversations about financial crises in China or anywhere else conventionally focus on banks or overtly bank-like institutions as the core of the financial system. We care about their fate because these companies are particularly exposed to ill economic winds and also are peculiarly capable of collapsing on top of the rest of an economy. But there are plenty of companies you might not call a bank that operate as one—especially in China.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Compan...