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Most of us are stuck placing our router in a less-than-optimal spot, depending on where the internet connection comes into our home. Mesh routers promise to extend Wi-Fi coverage by enabling you to place a second or third node wherever you need, and they appear…
There’s a new kind of gadget on shelves, designed for you to ignore it 99 percent of the time—it only needs attention when its battery is low. I’m talking about the screen-free wearable. You rarely look at it or touch it, yet it collects health…
MYLA, Ukraine — A Russian drone struck a warehouse west of Kyiv that Ukrainian officials say was storing shells, mines and other ammunition, sparking massive explosions and fires that swept through dozens of nearby homes and buildings and killing 38 people. The Friday night attack…
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Yuma County, Arizona, grows 90% of the leafy greens the U.S. consumes in the winter. But the state relies on water from the Colorado River, which is at record lows. The Colorado River fills America’s salad bowl. It’s a vital source of water to Yuma…
Amazon (machine + 3 tape cartridges) There’s something oddly satisfying about a perfectly labeled spice rack or a pantry with bins that specify exactly what they contain—even if it’s plain as day that the “pasta” bin contains boxes of dried penne. Taking a label maker…
A specific cadence for contemporary group chats eludes me. The rapid-fire tempo of texts combined with custom stickers, often based on inside jokes, leaves me behind. My digital fate: the silent lurker. As I let the notifications wash over me, I am a ghostlike figure…
KATHMANDU — Authorities in Nepal have warned of the risk of further flooding after heavy rainfall, as China sheds light on the scale of the disaster in its Tibet region. Five days after surging floodwaters from a glacier collapse buried communities across the region in…
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of a second or so after the big bang, the universe was a dense, hot soup scientists call quark-gluon plasma (QGP). For several years, particle colliders—which smash molecules…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei urged Muslim countries, particularly those in the Gulf, to unite against what he called their “real enemy” and said divisions among Muslims served the interests of their adversaries. The message was published on Khamenei’s Telegram account for Islamic Unity Week,…
