Every smart lock now promises privacy. Can any of them keep it?
Mara Okonjo · · 2 min read
Three of the biggest home-security brands spent the autumn arguing about whose door is safest. We read the fine print so you do not have to.
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Every smart lock now promises privacy. Can any of them keep it?
Mara Okonjo · 2 min read
Three of the biggest home-security brands spent the autumn arguing about whose door is safest. We read the fine print so you do not have to.
The Pip T2 is a full-size pickup squeezed into a city car
Theo Lindqvist · 1 min read
A week with the strangest electric vehicle on sale: a two-seat truck that parks like a hatchback and hauls like something twice its size.
My short, strange romance with a robot bird feeder
Priya Raman · 1 min read
It names every visitor, sends a push notification for each one, and slowly turned my morning coffee into a nature documentary.
Mathematicians will need years to check what the proof machine just wrote
Mara Okonjo · 1 min read
A system produced a 400-page argument for an old conjecture overnight. Verifying it is now a human-sized problem.
Inside the secret lab where laptops get tortured for a living
Theo Lindqvist · 1 min read
Hinges opened 30,000 times, keyboards hit by robotic fingers, and a room that is kept at exactly the temperature of a summer car.
The book app finally adds half-star and quarter-star ratings
Mara Okonjo · 1 min read
After years of readers writing "3.75, rounded up" in their reviews, fractions are here.
Agents could upend food delivery before the apps notice
Priya Raman · 1 min read
If an assistant orders dinner for you, the app that spent a decade designing for your thumb may stop mattering.
The pop star who unwinds with three-hour video essays about filing systems
Theo Lindqvist · 1 min read
An interview about touring, sleep, and why the most relaxing thing on the internet is someone reorganising a drawer.
The Pip T2 is a full-size pickup squeezed into a city car
Theo Lindqvist · 1 min read
A week with the strangest electric vehicle on sale: a two-seat truck that parks like a hatchback and hauls like something twice its size.
Inside the secret lab where laptops get tortured for a living
Theo Lindqvist · 1 min read
Hinges opened 30,000 times, keyboards hit by robotic fingers, and a room that is kept at exactly the temperature of a summer car.