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Apple Banned My Kid For Texting Spam. Here’s How We Rescued Her Account.
Just tell me how to fix it Start with Apple’s series of troubleshooting steps. Give ’em a shot, but if they don’t instantly work, cut to the chase and call Apple. Your time and sanity depend on it. If you receive this specific pop-up notification, it may mean that Apple has suspended or blocked your iMessage account.
Apple’s New HomeView Is an Apple Watch Jammed Into an iPad Powered by CarPlay Slapped on a HomePod
Apple Intelligence 6 hours ago Save $299: Your old Apple TV 4K gets the best new features Cult of Mac - Ed Hardy • 6h The Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) is raising eyebrows and dropping jaws, but not with amazing new features. It’s the price: $299. Fortunately, owners of older versions of the streaming box can get many of the biggest upgrades without buying new hardware.
From Football To Futbol
Photo Credit: Sightline Commercial Solutions When the final whistle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup blew, millions of fans around the world reflected on memorable goals, dramatic finishes, and historic performances.
The Light Switches That Changed My Life
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CLAIRE: It's given me a lot more control over everything in my home. I think the biggest thing is that I don't have to think about it anymore. It's freed up so much space to not be thinking about whether the lights are how I want them or whether someone will walk in in a few hours and I'll be sitting in a dark apartment, which is a weird vibe. JON: You're so moody and mysterious. CLAIRE: It's not inaccurate. CHRISTINE: I'm Christine Cyr Clisset.
By Christine Cyr Clisset Verified, Rosie Guerin Verified, Abigail Keel Verified, Jon Chase Verified, Claire Perlman Verified
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Why You Should Eat Chocolate After Your Run: The Science of Sticking to Healthy Habits
With spring right around the corner, many people are thinking about improving their health and getting more active. For most people, it can be tough to start. It feels daunting. It feels hard. We have our ways of doing things— our habits. Some habits are good and others not-so-much. Whether the habits we have help or harm us, they all start in the same place: A place in your brain called the basal ganglia.
Campus Construction & Renewal Update: Spring 2026
Catch up on construction projects around the University City Campus. The Academic Building is shedding scaffolding. By: Jon Chase, Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities To kick off 2026, Drexel University’s Real Estate and Facilities teams have been busy supporting the continued advancement of several projects across the University City Campus and other Drexel locations.
Ring Denies Rumors That Its Footage Is Used By ICE. Here’s What to Know.
Following a surge in immigration enforcement actions in recent weeks, unfounded rumors have swirled, claiming that Amazon-owned Ring, which has sold tens of millions of smart cameras and video doorbells in the US, has been providing federal immigration law enforcement with access to user data.
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Facial Recognition, a Lost-Dog Finder, and 3 More Big Announcements From Amazon’s Fall Event
During Amazon’s fall showcase of new Ring, Blink, Fire TV, Kindle, and Echo devices, the story of the day was AI, and the belle of the ball was Alexa+. While company representatives enthused over beefed-up processors, improved camera resolution, 3D-printed speaker grilles, and intensified audio oomph, the marquee features of every device on stage were AI-powered — and often Alexa+ accessible.
The 5 Best Smart Locks of 2025
Smart locks take a routine, often tedious daily ritual—entering or leaving home—and make it far more convenient, far more secure, and a little more fun. Most smart locks are either a deadbolt replacement or a deadbolt adapter (which replaces the thumb turn with a motorized one). There are also smart doorknob or lever-handle replacement locks, which are more common in apartments (and perhaps small businesses).
Helping My Dad Troubleshoot Tech Over the Phone Was Crazy-Making. This Hidden Apple Trick Spared Us Both.
It goes something like this: You get a text — possibly panicked, likely pleading — from a loved one who needs help troubleshooting a tech problem. Their printer refuses to connect, a text message of their cute grandkid won’t send, their Netflix password “seems to have changed.” You say, “Yeah, yeah, I can help,” because you can. But you know what you’re in for. You call them and recite precise instructions for fixing the problem. You repeat the instructions over and over, speaking slower and slower.
The Vacationers’ Guide to Protecting a Home From Disasters, Bandits, and Other Costly Calamities
Home ownership can be a nightmare factory that intensifies when you’re away doing your best to make your vacation actually relaxing. On the one hand, there’s the fear of visits from petty thieves, robbers, vandals, and other boogeymen. On the other, there’s the paranoia over hidden leaks, crossed wires, and frozen pipes, not to mention weather-borne havoc wrought by Mother Nature. Homeowners may find salvation with a judiciously selected and potent collection of smart-home gear.
Are Your Smart Devices Really Spying on You?
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Listen and follow The Wirecutter Show Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio | Other platforms If you’ve ever suspected your smart devices are spying on you, you’re right. In this episode, Jon Chase, Wirecutter's supervising editor for smart home coverage, reveals how even everyday devices you may not consider "smart" are monitoring you. They’re collecting data to build a profile that can then be sold to the highest bidder.
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Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know.
By Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk Updated June 25, 2025 This is not a conspiracy theory: Many of the devices living in your home are quietly collecting towering heaps of information about you. Your TV, your doorbell, your security system, your thermostat, even your earbuds — all of them are involved. Some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and then sold to the highest bidder, hundreds of times a day, by organizations you’ve never heard of.
I’m Wirecutter’s Smart Home Editor. Here’s How I Set Up My House for Less Miserable Mornings. Original
This is the real and true story of how one man—call him an editor, call him a hero, it really doesn’t matter—assembled a crack team of gadgetry and transformed his family’s once torturous, soul-sapping morning routine into one that is pretty passable most days. (If you have teens and tweens, this is a high-water mark.) As the old chestnut goes, when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
17 Best Smart Home Devices for Apple HomeKit and Siri in 2024
If you want your smart home to work as an integrated system rather than as a bunch of separate gadgets and separate apps, and your primary mobile device is an iPhone, you might want to try Apple HomeKit. It’s an easy-to-use system for setting up and controlling a smart home. All Apple-branded devices with a screen and HomePod speakers support HomeKit, as do a wide range of popular smart devices. Apple devices only You can set up and use HomeKit only if you own an iPhone or iPad.
The 5 Best Smart Locks of 2024
Smart locks take a routine, often tedious daily ritual—entering or leaving home—and make it far more convenient, far more secure, and a little more fun. Most smart locks are either a deadbolt replacement or a deadbolt adapter (which replaces the thumb turn with a motorized one). There are also smart doorknob or lever-handle replacement locks, which are more common in apartments (and perhaps small businesses).
This Magic Spray Prevents Your Toilet From Getting Skid Marks. You’re Welcome. Original
We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› Illustration: Dana Davis / Photos: Jon Chase By Jon Chase Jon Chase is an editor of smart-home coverage. For Wirecutter, he learned how to pick smart locks and shaved a colleague’s head to test hair clippers.
I Didn’t Know My Washing Machine Had a Brain. Then It Told Me I Was Doing My Laundry Wrong.
In the classic hierarchy of human needs—you know, food, shelter, safety, broadband internet—a washing machine with smart features doesn’t rate. When I bought my LG WM3600HWA, a precursor to the LG WM4000H, our current pick, I didn’t even notice it had smart features. (At the risk of self-incrimination, I’m a smart-home editor.) After all, why would you want a washing machine with brains? If anything, it only increases the risk of them rising up to overthrow the human race.
From Farm to Fork: How Technology Revolutionizes Farmers’ Experiences
Think about your last meal, your toothpaste, your T-shirt. Do you know where they came from? There are many steps that go into the food on your plate, the products in your bathroom cabinet, and the clothing in your closet. They might seem disconnected, but their origin is the same: a farm. Farming is the root of global food production and household products — and has been for centuries.
I Thought Immersion Blenders Were Junk-Drawer Bait, Until This One Turned Me Into a Chimichurri King
I was never the immersion blender type. I don’t do smoothies. I do not cotton to protein shakes. I’m not confident I know what a frappe is. And yet here we are, maybe six years after I was assigned to review immersion blenders, and I finally saw the light. Since then, Breville’s The Control Grip immersion blender has become the most trusted tool in my arsenal, and I find I enjoy its company more than I do most people and even some animals.
Why We’re Pausing Our Recommendation of Wyze Smart Home Devices Original
Following a major privacy incident with Wyze cameras and the Wyze app—the third such episode since 2022—we are expanding our existing suspension of Wyze-camera recommendations to include all of Wyze’s smart-home and security products, including our picks for smart bulbs, strip lights, and locks. We recognize that some existing Wyze customers may feel perfectly comfortable continuing to use their Wyze devices.
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Matthew Stuart, brother of Charles Stuart, gestures toward members of the media outside his family's home Jan. 10, 1990, in Revere, Mass. Matthew Stuart confessed to helping is brother Charles Stuart hide the gun used Carol Stuart's slaying.
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I Cheated On My Clock Radio With An Echo Dot. I'm Never Going Back.
If you have ever been bumping down a country road, belting out your favorite tunes from the car stereo, only to have it turn to angry static the moment you enter a radio signal-free zone, then you know precisely what it was like to wake up every morning in our bedroom with a crummy old clock radio.
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FILE - Mitt Romney, right, chairman of the Boston-based management consulting firm Bain and Company, acknowledges the crowd after announcing his candidacy as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, in Boston Feb. 2, 1994. With Romney on stage are, from left to right, his mother Lenore Romney, his father George Romney, former governor of Michigan and one-time presidential candidate, and wife Ann.
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You Don’t Have to Ditch the Switch When You Switch to Smart Lights Original
Smart-home confession: It can be tedious to have to consult a phone or smart speaker just so you can turn off smart lights (there, I said it). Personal confession: Some members of my household regularly trigger a smart-home meltdown by flipping off the switches that power all the smart lighting, rendering them, well, stupid. Alas, a smart house divided cannot stand. I have found salvation via a simple solution.
You Don’t Have to Ditch the Switch When You Switch to Smart Lights
Smart-home confession: It can be tedious to have to consult a phone or smart speaker just so you can turn off smart lights (there, I said it). Personal confession: Some members of my household regularly trigger a smart-home meltdown by flipping off the switches that power all the smart lighting, rendering them, well, stupid. Alas, a smart house divided cannot stand.
These 6 Gadgets Make Life Easier and More Energy Efficient
Sign up for Wirecutter's newsletters to get independent reviews, expert advice, and the very best deals sent straight to your inbox. Smart-home devices make life more convenient, more secure, and even a little more fun, but when used right they excel at making your home more energy and resource efficient, too. Without much fuss or money, you can install any one of these devices and quickly experience the benefits.
Harvard Square year-round
How to describe Harvard Square? Busy and bustling with bikes and buses, cars and crowds, trucks and kick-scooters fighting for space on streets and crossways. Intimate with its hidden alleys and entryways, venerable (quirky tobacconist Leavitt and Peirce), modern (a fine wine shop, a cannabis boutique), upscale (Harvest Restaurant), and working-class (late-night standby Charlie’s Kitchen).
Optimizing Outdoor Spaces for Maximum Usability, Enjoyment and Safety
Hotel Management Best Practices Hotel Management Best Practices Following years of being fundamentally confined to our homes, people everywhere are eager to gather, celebrate and enjoy face-to-face time with friends, family, peers and colleagues. We are seeing – and celebrating – the return of weddings, class reunions, industry trade shows and corporate events.
How to Make Your Second Home Smarter, Safer and More Sustainable
WIRECUTTER From security systems to thermostats to window treatments, modern technology can take the anxiety out of maintaining a home from afar. A smart doorbell camera alerts you when someone approaches your door or a package is delivered.
Want to Sleep Like a Baby? Try a Smart Thermostat.
Anyone who has awakened in a discombobulated haze, limbs bound in twisted tentacles of soaked sheets, should understand the fundamental principle that the human body requires cool temperatures to have restful, restorative, healthy sleep.
Smart Home’s Biggest Problem Might Get Better. Here’s What You Need to Know About Matter.
There’s a tradition among electronics companies: With the launch of any new type of product, a years-long battle ensues in which customers are expected to swear brand allegiance to a format or operating system or some other tech specification—all just to get the devices they buy to work right.
8 Alexa, Siri, And Google Home Hacks Anyone With Kids Should Know
Sure, voice assistants can read you the news, pull up the new Tribe Called Quest album on request, and add items to online shopping carts. But like Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and the Google Assistant can pitch in on a much bigger task: Child rearing. RELATED: Google Home Can Control A Lot of Your House But Not Your Kids Yes, these disembodied voices, which have their own built-in commands and work within their various makers’ connected smart home devices, can DH for you.
When a Smart Thermostat Isn’t the Smart Choice
The first blockbuster smart-home device was a thermostat, of all things—the undisputed champ for Least Sexy Home Appliance. The Nest Thermostat, released in 2011, was a revelation, with striking good looks and built-in AI to program itself. But the real hook with the original Nest was its vaunted ability to knock as much as 30% off your home heating and cooling bills.
Water Leaks Destroy Homes. These Smart Gadgets Can Save Yours.
Fun fact to rob you of sleep for the remainder of your adult life: The odds are pretty good that your home will suffer water damage at some point. that about one in 50 homes filed a claim for water damage in recent years (up to 2019, so not even including this year's calamities), and that an average of 30% of all insurance claims in that time involved water damage—in fact, water damage and freezing account for the second-highest number of homeowner's insurance claims overall, after wind damage.
How to Protect Your Home When You're on Vacation
Like so many others I’m eager to venture out and enjoy the company of humans and the thrill of far flung places. There’s an overwhelming fear of missing out any longer. But that FOMO is tempered by an equally pressing FOGA: Fear of Going Away. It was a few years ago at our mortgage closing, when the seller received an eye-popping $900 final water bill, that I first developed FOGA.
Amazon Sidewalk Will Share Your Internet With Strangers. It’s Not As Scary As It Sounds.
On June 8, Amazon is set to flip the switch on its new free service called Sidewalk, which will automatically be enabled on many of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers and smart displays, as well as some Ring devices (for more details, see the complete list of compatible devices). Once Sidewalk goes live, compatible devices such as speakers, light bulbs, locks, and sensors will be able to connect anonymously to other Sidewalk devices to borrow a little slice of internet connectivity.
How to Use Your Smart Lock Better
To the uninitiated, a smart lock may seem like a trifling extravagance—a high-tech toy for gadget hounds. And if I’m honest, that’s not totally wrong! But that’s only if you think a smart lock is just a battery-powered regular lock and ignore all the excellent smart stuff it can do.
Memorial Drive opens for weekend pedestrians, cyclists
Members of the Cambridge community gather on the lawn by the Weeks Footbridge for some relaxation and casual volleyball. The Dunster House tower looms in the background. Photos by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Riverbend Park opens for weekend recreation As the Beatles once sang, here comes the sun. Smiling faces have returned to Memorial Drive.
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