You probably feel a little safer every time you plug your laptop, TV, or game console into a chunky “protected” strip. The ...

Surge protectors are treated like permanent fixtures, shoved behind TVs and desks and forgotten for years. That quiet neglect is exactly what turns them from safety gear into a hidden fire hazard. If ...

We'd lay even odds that, at this very moment, there is a surge-protecting power strip somewhere in your home that has multiple different devices plugged into it. We'd also wager that you probably have ...