When the lights go out, the way you string together a few cords can quietly decide whether your home stays safely powered or ...

Male-to-male extension cords, sometimes called suicide or widowmaker cords, are dangerous extension cords that can kill or injure you. People sometimes use them during a power outage to feed ...

September 20, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google A recent Consumer Product Safety Commission alert is urging people to not use male-to-male power chords. In ...

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 ...

There is a reason male-to-male extension cords have been nicknamed "widowmakers" and "suicide cords." "If you put a male into a female socket, the other end of that male is going to be live," Paul ...