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Back to School: The 8 Best Smart Home Devices for Your Dorm Room (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: smart home devices, dorm room, gadgets

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How Data Centers Broke American Politics (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Molly Taft | tags: data centers, steve bannon, georgia

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For the first time, more Americans support all-day school phone bans than oppose them (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Rob Thubron | tags: pew research center, all-day school phone bans, us adults

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Back to School Office Chair Deals 2026: $200 and Less (wired.com)

2026-07-30 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: protoarc, wired, office chair

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What the FCC ban on foreign-made robot vacuums means for your Roomba (zdnet.com)

2026-07-30 | by Maria Diaz | tags: fcc, roomba, robot vacuums

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The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-30 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: roomba, alphafold, google deepmind

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Almost all future robot vacuums were just banned by the US government (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: robot vacuums, roomba, roborock

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The US government just banned Roombas (theverge.com)

2026-07-29 | by Sean Hollister | tags: roomba, fcc, amazon

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for July 29, #1144 (cnet.com)

2026-07-28 | by Gael Cooper | tags: nytimes, connections, puzzle

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WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: whatsapp, meta, web app

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Went to the ER? The Trump administration may want your medical records (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: consumer product safety commission, emergency room, medical records

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This highly-rated 175W car charger is down to $19.99 at Amazon right now (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: joyroom, gan tech, usb-c

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We Need a National Ballroom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: ballroom, chandeliers, gold accents

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We Got a First Look at ‘Common Side Effects’ Season 2 (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: adult swim, common side effects, season 2

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Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: black hole, physics, room decor

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The robot byline is quietly disappearing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: ai-assisted journalism, large language models, newsrooms

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It’s the Deadliest Room in the House—Especially for Seniors (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-22 | tags: bathroom safety, seniors, fall prevention

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Artists turned this vacant L.A. hospital into an immersive art therapy session (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: hospital of emotions, los angeles, art therapy

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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-22 | by Connie Loizos | tags: anthropic, physical intelligence, openai

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Back to School: The 8 Best Alternatives to Buying a TV (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: dorm room, screens, alternatives

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1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Mark Tyson | tags: sega 32x, backrooms, raycasting engine

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The trait leaders need more than AI literacy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: ai boards, anxiety, anxiety room

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LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material (slashdot.org)

2026-07-20 | tags: louisiana state university, room-temperature quantum material, plasmonic metacrystal

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A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (2026) (wired.com)

2026-07-20 | by Kat Merck | tags: mushroom hunting, shiitakes, mycology

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‘Backrooms’ Almost Got Trapped In Copyright Hell (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: a24, kane parsons, backrooms

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Jurassic Park packed $4 million of legit 1993 computer hardware — a software engineer detailed every single piece of hardware in the film (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: silicon graphics, apple powerbook, jurassic park

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Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: microsoft, surface laptop, windows 11

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‘Symbol’ Is a Surreal Escape Room Trip Better Experienced Than Explained (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: symbol, hitoshi matsumoto, escape room

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Sony Bravia Theater vs. Sonos: I've used both home theaters - here's how to choose (zdnet.com)

2026-07-15 | by Jada Jones | tags: audio, bravia, home

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The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld (theverge.com)

2026-07-15 | by Sean Hollister | tags: games, handheld, living