Tagged #tech

Every smart lock now promises privacy. Can any of them keep it?

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.

My short, strange romance with a robot bird feeder

It names every visitor, sends a push notification for each one, and slowly turned my morning coffee into a nature documentary.

Agents could upend food delivery before the apps notice

If an assistant orders dinner for you, the app that spent a decade designing for your thumb may stop mattering.

The book app finally adds half-star and quarter-star ratings

After years of readers writing "3.75, rounded up" in their reviews, fractions are here.

Inside the secret lab where laptops get tortured for a living

Hinges opened 30,000 times, keyboards hit by robotic fingers, and a room that is kept at exactly the temperature of a summer car.