Yael Grauer

2 weeks ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Emily Ewen |Callie Fredrickson |Yael Grauer

The closer you can get your ball to the hole, the fewer expected strokes it will take to hole out. That’s a key to improving your score on the golf course. And it’s partly why PGA TOUR players who are known for their power and distance — like Rory McIlroy, who currently leads the tour in strokes gained total and strokes gained off-the-tee — are able to consistently finish among the leaders at PGA TOUR tournaments.

Oct 22, 2024 | innovation.consumerreports.org | Dazza Greenwood |Dirk Klingner |Yael Grauer |Stephanie Landry

Last year was a big year for the right to repair movement. Oregon and Colorado both passed laws protecting the right to repair, including protecting consumers against the pernicious practice of software pairing. But there’s still plenty of work ahead. Consumer Reports (CR) aims to protect consumers’ rights to repair the products they already own, despite efforts by manufacturers to prevent access to the tools and manuals necessary to fix items either at home or by independent repair shops.

Oct 1, 2024 | innovation.consumerreports.org | Stephanie Landry |Stacey Higginbotham |Jacob Rubenstein |Houman Saberi |Yael Grauer

Today, Consumer Reports, Aspen Digital, and Global Cyber Alliance released the third annual Consumer Cyber Readiness report. The report highlights findings from two nationally representative surveys of over 2,000 US adults conducted by CR in April 2024 and May 2024. It also provides key leadership perspectives from government, industry, and civil society.

Sep 25, 2024 | innovation.consumerreports.org | Yael Grauer |Stacey Higginbotham |David Della Rocca |Jacob Rubenstein

Consumers are spending thousands of dollars purchasing connected appliances, but in most cases, appliance makers don’t tell them how long their products will stay securely connected to the internet. Which means that those fancy AI features or tablets on the front of the family fridge may stop working before the appliance itself does or become a risk to the security of your home network.

Apr 23, 2024 | innovation.consumerreports.org | Steve Blair |Ben Moskowitz |Grace Gedye |Yael Grauer

We live in a world where information is free, but that doesn’t mean information is good. Trusted information — about products specifically — has been our raison d’être at Consumer Reports since our founding in 1936. In the 1930s advertising was exploding for the first time, and there wasn’t much quality information to help Americans distinguish fact from fiction when it came to new products.