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I Tried a High-Tech Package Locker Before the Holiday Shopping Rush

The onslaught of tech gear being delivered for WIRED Reviews, combined with the samples I receive constantly for my side hustle at Drinkhacker, means that delivery trucks are a constant occurrence on my suburban street. UPS and FedEx both make drops at my house nearly every day, and that’s not to mention occasional deliveries from the likes of DHL and, of course, Amazon and its ilk. But it’s usually not a problem. I work from home, so picking up packages left on the doorstep is just part of the scenery.

What is a problem is that I can’t be home 24 hours a day, and even though I have a very kind neighbor across the way who keeps an eye out for boxes on my front steps when I’m traveling, he isn’t always at home either. Package hold requests aren’t consistently honored by either of the major carriers—and...

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Oil Spills Wreak Havoc on the Bottom of the Ocean, Even a Decade Later

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across hundreds of miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico, a deepwater ecosystem collapsed after the massive 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil and gas spill, and recovery is uncertain, new research concludes. The study, published

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Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Make Your Phone Hot. Here’s How to Keep It Cool

Android Auto and CarPlay have transformed the way people drive. Rather than putting up with whatever infotainment systems car manufacturers have put together, we're now able to interact with our phones from our car dashboards—with our contacts, our music, our podcasts, and our mapping apps all available.

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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad

Paris Marx’s new book couldn’t have landed at a better time. The longtime critic of Big Tech and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast has been thinking about data centers for years, and Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires

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221 Blog Posts To Learn About Hardware

Let's learn about Hardware via these 221 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. With a rapidly growing industry that revolves around software, HackerNoon's hardware

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Oil Spills Wreak Havoc on the Bottom of the Ocean, Even a Decade Later

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Make Your Phone Hot. Here’s How to Keep It Cool

What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad

221 Blog Posts To Learn About Hardware