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Smart home tech is widespread in the US, but cost, privacy and reliability concerns persist
Connected devices are now a normal part of American domestic life.
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Smart appliances send up to 19MB of data a week — regulators are watching the wrong…
According to an industry report summarizing the tests, the appliances sent between 3.4MB and 19MB per week even though they were used only once a day.
Analysis
In 2021, one Chinese live streamer sold $1.9 billion in goods in a single day
In October 2021, Chinese livestreamer Li Jiaqi demonstrated how large creator-led commerce could become.
Analysis
Same campaign, different math: impressions showed 2:1 while one value model showed 8:1
An impressions-based comparison might show two dollars of media-equivalent value for every dollar spent.
Analysis
California lawmakers strip the searchable teacher database from AB 1381 but keep the…
California's teacher misconduct bill is what happens when a broad proposal gets negotiated into a narrower one, and the narrower one still matters.
News
The Supreme Court called geofence warrants a Fourth Amendment search — and left almost…
United States is the clearest illustration of it yet.
News
WhatsApp reaches 85% of European smartphones and above 90% in Italy and Spain —…
Google, of all companies, keeps learning it the hard way.
News
Global Privacy Control improved on Do Not Track by doing the one thing the original…
Do Not Track asked companies to respect a user’s preference.
Analysis
Jimmie Duncan spent 85 straight days in a 126-degree Angola cell for a crime the…
In the summer of 2012, the heat index in one section of death row crossed 126 degrees for 85 straight days.
Psychology
The engineers who get promoted fastest rarely log the most hours — they write the…
For most of the productivity era, the advice from the corner office was consistent: hire the striver.
Psychology
The average American worker leaves roughly $3,000 in vacation days unused each year…
The countdown to vacation has become a substitute for a life.
Psychology
The hardest part of setting a boundary in midlife often isn’t the other…
The hardest boundary to hold in midlife may be the one nobody actually fights you on.
Psychology
People who lie in bed rehearsing tomorrow’s meeting aren’t overthinking —…
The hours between 8 p.m. and midnight are where most people quietly sabotage the next day.
Analysis
Global sea-surface temperature hit 21.1°C last week, the highest daily reading…
What is unfolding now, according to reporting in The Atlantic, is not a repeat of that cycle.
News
Lakeland, Florida just paused a 600,000-square-foot, 100-megawatt data center on a 4-3…
Florida is running two data center policies at once, and they point in opposite directions.
Psychology
The people who seem most self-sufficient in a crisis often aren’t calmer than…
The person who looks calmest in a crisis may not be the person who feels calmest.