Month: January 2025

Arlo has once again increased the monthly subscription pricing for its smart home cameras’ Arlo Secure cloud storage plan. The company now charges $9.99 per month (up from $7.99) to store a single camera’s recordings and $19.99 a month (up from $17.99) for unlimited cameras. And instead of calling the cheaper plan Arlo Secure, both
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Wuthering Waves 2.0, developed and published by Kuro Games, takes Rover and her companion Abby to the far-off land of Rinascita. There, they will make new allies and encounter new enemies as they unravel a mystery threatening the people of the opulent island city-state of Ragunna. The biggest expansion yet to the seven-month-old game, players
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Roll into your weekend with this highlight reel of the bookish news Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. The It Books of 2024 It’s easy to see the It Books of the year in hindsight, and we did just that on a recent episode of the Book Riot Podcast. What’s not easy is
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency has found that formaldehyde presents an unreasonable risk to human health. But the report, released Thursday, downplayed the threat the chemical poses to people living
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With a smart video doorbell, your front door’s communication skills go from 1980s landline to a modern smartphone. Combining a motion-activated camera with a microphone, speaker, and buzzer, a doorbell camera sends alerts to your phone to show you who’s at the door without you having to open it or even be at home. Whether
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This weekend, AppleTV+ (Apple TV Plus) is giving everyone access to their streaming library from January 3 through January 5. The free Apple TV+ weekend will be free on any device where Apple TV+ is available, and all you need is an Apple ID to see what all the buzz is about. Home to some of
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Old Soul by Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 28) Here’s another new horror novel focused on grief, and this one kicks off when two strangers meet in Osaka airport. Both Jake and Mariko lost someone important to them, and before their deaths, they both saw the same woman, even though they were 6,000 miles
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How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News. In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations are grim.  As a
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The Mediterranean diet has made that silly list of “best diets” once again, which always makes me wonder: Does anybody ever “go on” the Mediterranean diet? Like as something to commit to and follow through on? There’s no straightforward app to track it, and no easy-to-read book that gives simplistic rules to say yes or
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Artist’s impression of a group of Homo floresiensis with a freshly killed stegodon (Stegodon florensis insularis) MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the “hobbit”-like humans who hunted them. Until about 50,000 years ago, Homo floresiensis, standing about a metre tall,
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