It also powered through challenging low brush without choking. Chris Monroe/CNET





While the Hart 40-volt Cordless Brushlessmower doesn't have the raw cutting power of other electric push machines, it's no slouch either. This mower's blades never stalled during my test trims.

With its petite 7-inch screen and weighing in at just a hair over 1 pound, Google's schmedium-sized smart display entered the category as something of a welterweight. By comparison, Amazon's flagship smart display -- the 10-inch, over 2.5-pound colossus then simply called  -- was an absolute unit (at over 5 pounds, its latest permutation is ). Dale Smith/CNET






When  hit the smart home market in 2018, it may have looked at first like quite an underdog.

That said, the EGO Power Plus definitely had the most oomph. At 62.6 pounds, this machine is one of the biggest and heaviest in my test group. Chris Monroe/CNET





Anyone that doubts that an electric mower can't rival the power of gas models, hasn't used an EGO. Where other lesser mowers stalled, It was simply unstoppable.  Whether cutting grass or barreling through low-brush, this mower performed like a tank.

Track and field is the most important sport for NBC so the prospect of the US team being reluctant to attend, or insisting that they could not be competitive because of disruption to preparation, means that pressure is becoming unbearable on Toyko 2020 organisers and Bach to postpone the games, despite the huge costs.



Some people won't care a lick about sleep tracking and if that's you, you have no more reason to buy the updated Nest Hub today than you had to buy the first-gen Hub before. Meh, if you're looking for great sounding audio and you've already bought into the Google Nest ecosystem (or decided you want to), the Nest Audio is the no-brainer choice for you. 



Still others are held to mark the passage of time -- one generation to the next, old to the new, the discontinued Google Home versus the updated Nest Audio. Others exist on a more human scale: Apple HomePod versus HomePod Mini, for example. Amazon Echo versus Google Nest, even. Some competitions are epic by nature: Foreman versus Ali. Apple versus Microsoft.

For starters, Google is reportedly discontinuing the previous-generation Nest Hub, so the question of whether you should buy one model over the other will soon be moot. Some retailers like Best Buy will likely continue to sell the old Nest Hub until they run out of stock, but before long it will have gone the way of the dodo and with it, your options.

The research, produced by Italian immunologists and lung specialists based at institutes in Berlin, Rome and Verona, suggests that due to strenuous exercise, elite athletes are more likely to inhale virus particles and direct them to the lower areas of the lung.



I paid close attention to whether mowers stalled, got bogged down, or struggled in any way while cutting. This served as a torture test for high-powered models, and a good way to determine which mowers are truly worth your money. I also ran the same test through a low-brush section on the outer edge of the lawn.

I've gathered here a group of the most popular electric mowers I could find. I then unpacked, assembled and personally put each unit through its paces. If you're in the market for a push electric lawn mower, you're in luck. That's especially true of big, heavy machines you'd rather not push around unaided. After the grass clippings from my mowing spree settled, these were my favorites. I stuck to push-from-behind models only, which cost anywhere from $250 to $550. Other factors like whether a mower is self-propelled can have a big impact too.

He said it was incumbent on FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Samoura and FIFA as an organisation to threaten Bahrain with sporting sanctions if it proceeded with the attempts at refoulement, the forcible return of a refugee, via Thailand's legal system.

The Swiss-based World Players' Association (WPA), which represents 85,000 players in over 60 countries, has called on Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa, the president of the Asian Football Federation (AFC), to help win al-Araibi's release.

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But then there are those who just, you know, want a smart screen, because smart home. If you've been contemplating making the leap to a smart home display, there may not necessarily be a heightened sense of urgency, but there's never been a better time to get in than now. 

4 position (higher number means greater cutting height). With all mower batteries fully charged, I set each mower's cutting height to its No. Next, I used each machine to mow at least four full rows (15 feet) of lawn in both directions, with 180-degree turns between each row. Testing the mowers  To test each lawn mower, I selected one flat area of turf within the lawn of the CNET Smart Home.