if you have Eero Mesh System, you can expand your Wi-Fi network with some Echo devices. Amazon acquired Eero in 2019 and the company continues to make some of the best mesh Wi-Fi routers out there. The Eero range is particularly good for Alexa-powered smart homes, offering tight integration if you link your Amazon and...

While Daley acknowledges that this technological growth is raising new concerns in academia, she doesn’t see it as a completely uncharted territory. “I think we’ve been in this territory for a while now,” Daley says. “Students who plagiarize often take material from somewhere, such as a website that does not have clear attribution. I suspect...

What about human security? Gordon McEwan, whose home is near the proposed launch site, is worried about incoming missiles. In a meeting with Orbex and other cultivators, he shared his concern that the launch exclusion zone is too small. When the rocket takes off, the zone will have a radius of less than 2 kilometers....

This makes a lot of sense. Resurrecting an entire species will require breakthroughs in all areas: gene editing and sequencing, artificial queens, and so on. Lamm wants all of the technology Colossal develops to have potential applications — and paying customers — in the healthcare world. “This is the core of our technology strategy,” he...

About a hundred different types of amino acids have been found in meteorites, but only a dozen of the 20 essential for life have been found. Biological amino acids also have a feature that gives them away: they all have a “left-handed” structure, while abiotic processes create left-handed and right-handed molecules equally. Several meteorites found...

I look a lot of youtube. Am I pursuing my hobbies or am I wasting my time watch people build tunnels under their housesa video service owned by Google is broadcast around the clock somewhere. If you’ve spent any time on YouTube in the past, you’re probably aware of the Raycon Everyday Earbuds that have...

I shrug and put my phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.” After a pause, she demands, “Let me see it again.” The second time, her eyes travel across the screen, taking the time to study the image. She marks my angular eyebrows. Glitter of silver on my breastplate. My chin is slightly raised....

Of course, the problem will be applying scientific standardization to something that might not be scientific at all. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and people interpret what they see based on factors such as current events and their scientific, political, and cultural background. “The data you get is socially constructed,” says University of Pennsylvania historian...

To the unfamiliar eye, the press release from the Massachusetts Department of Health two weeks ago looked pretty mundane. Perhaps his language was a little unnerving, but carefully worded: Analysts found a resident with a strain of gonorrhea that showed a “reduced response to several antibiotics,” but that person – and a second with a...