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Month: January 2023

The Best Tested And Reviewed Mesh Wi-Fi Routers Of 2024

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Mesh routers promise dependable Wi-Fi throughout your home, and most of them follow through, so it’s not surprising to see them growing...

An AI Filter Revealed My Secret Self

I shrug and put the phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.” After a pause, she demands, “Let me see that again.” The second time around, her eyes travel across the screen, taking time to study the image. She notes my angular brows. The sheen of silver on...

How To Extend Your Eero Mesh With Amazon Echo Speakers (2023)

If you have an Eero mesh system, you can extend your Wi-Fi network with select Echo devices. Amazon acquired Eero in 2019, and the company has continued to turn out some of the best mesh Wi-Fi routers around. The Eero range is especially good for Alexa-based smart homes, offering tight integration...

Neural Imaging Reveals Secret Conversational Cues

Studying human conversations isn’t a simple challenge. For instance, when humans start to talk to one another in a conversation, they coordinate their speech very tightly—people very rarely talk over one another, and they rarely leave long, unspoken, silent gaps. A conversation is like a dance with no choreography...

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks A Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time. Since antiquity, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes can tile the entire plane without gaps or overlaps. And yet, “not a lot has been known until fairly recent times,”...

The Best Amazon Fire Tablet (2023): Which Model Should You Buy?

Amazon’s Fire tablets are some of the only high-profile, ultra-affordable tablets around. The prices seem too good to be true—and in some ways, they are—but Fire tablets are also completely functional, reasonably capable devices. To help you decide if one of these slates is right for you, we reviewed...

The American West’s Salt Lakes Are Turning To Dust

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source, Lake Abert and Summer Lake, two dried-up saline lakes in southern Oregon. This has happened...

4 Best Webcams (2023): Razer, Logitech, And More

Razer Kiyo for $67: Our previous best-of pick, the original Kiyo still offers 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second (or 720p at 60 frames per second) and built-in lighting that’s controlled by turning the illuminated ring to brighten, dim, or shut it off entirely. Picture quality is good,...

ADS-B Exchange, The Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold To Jetnet

“There’s countries we can’t go to anymore,” Stanford says of himself and a core team of administrators. In recent years, the Saudi government has tried to push international aviation regulators to forbid or prevent the public dissemination of ADS-B data, though that proposal hasn’t gone far. Musk, on the...