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Morrow County, Oregon, is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly high concentration of nitrates in the drinking water that is driving up cancer and miscarriage rates in the area.
Rolling Stone’s exposé details how Amazon, despite not using any dangerous...
You can snag a pair of Amazon’s Alexa-enabled smart glasses for an all-time low price this Cyber Monday.
The last thing I need is a new Amazon Echo smart speaker. As The Verge’s smart home reviewer, I currently have a dozen scattered around my home for testing. But when Amazon’s Echo Frames smart glasses went on sale for $115 for Cyber Monday, down from $300, it was an offer my husband...
These slimline earbuds can help side-sleepers get more shut-eye.
Anker’s seriously small Soundcore Sleep A20 sleepbuds can be nabbed for $108 right now at Amazon, their best price since they launched on Kickstarter at $90 last year. They normally sell for $179.99, making this a standout deal for a pair of ultra-tiny sleep buds that I barely notice as I drift off to the soothing sounds of...
Take a walk.
I have a tendency to space out. A lot. Whether it's staring out the window on Amtrak or pausing at work to fixate on a blank spot on the wall instead of my screen, I often let my mind wander. When I was younger, I would often be derisively called a daydreamer, a space cadet, or just plain distracted. Obviously, one can be too absent-minded, but Bored and Brilliant by Manoush...
Apple’s HomePod is $30 off, and you can also grab a deal on the excellent Eve Energy smart plug that works with it.
‘Tis the season to score some serious bargains on smart home gear. While Black Friday is behind us, Cyber Monday is coming up fast, so there is still time to grab a bargain on that smart lock you’ve been eyeing or take the plunge on a robot vacuum. Here I’ve rounded up the...
If all you want is a way to talk to ChatGPT, you're practically spoiled for choice - there are countless ways to chat with the bots, and seemingly countless new ones every single day. But that's not the whole story of how we'll interact with large language models. It better not be.
Thomas Paul Mann, CEO and cofounder of the app Raycast, has a much bigger vision for what an AI app might do...
Neuralink patient Brad Smith uses his webcam connected to his mind-controlled computer to see the world to his left and right. | Photo: Jeven Dovey and Jake Viramontez / Insta360
Brad Smith said his decision to hook up a webcam to the computer he controls with his mind did not make sense to people at Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company.
"Neuralink was really confused...
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The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US - GeoCities Japan...
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This week, I've been reading about Faker and Chinese EVs and art thieves, shopping for cool acoustic tiles for my new home office, using a...
Editor’s note: December has arrived, bringing Cyber Monday with it. We’re tracking all of the latest deals kicking off today in a new post rounding up the best Cyber Monday deals, so we will no longer be updating this article.
Black Friday is over, but the deals haven’t simply evaporated. As we turn our attention to Cyber Monday, many of our favorite deals are still holding strong. That...