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Nearly every house has one. The back bedroom where video calls freeze. The kitchen where a podcast stutters if you stand near the fridge. The usual response is to buy something — an extender, a mesh kit, a router…
· By Lena Ibarra · 5 minute read
Continue reading →Every rechargeable device in your house runs on roughly the same chemistry, and that chemistry wears out in a predictable way. A battery holds a bit less charge each month, and one day the phone that used to reach…
· By Clara Marsh · 4 minute read
Continue reading →The universal connector was supposed to end the drawer of incompatible cables. Instead it produced a drawer of identical cables with wildly different abilities, none of which is visible from the outside. One charges a laptop and carries a…
· By Lena Ibarra · 4 minute read
Continue reading →For about twenty years the standard advice was: make it complicated, change it every ninety days, and never write it down. What that produced was a season, a year, and a punctuation mark on the end, incremented every quarter…
· By Nathaniel Barros · 5 minute read
Continue reading →Most households have a drawer. Two old phones, a tablet with a swollen back, a laptop that was fine except for the battery, a tangle of chargers for none of them. Nothing in there is doing any good, and…
· By Lena Ibarra · 4 minute read
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