Smart speakers, smart displays and smart buttons — Amazon’s ambitions for its Alexa voice assistant have been growing, but it’s only built a few narrow categories of Alexa products itself. Generally,…
Melissa McCarthy made sure her famous friends and fellow nominees were well fed! The Can You Ever Forgive Me? star, who lost the best actress in a motion picture category to…
Two new vacuums join the ranks of Neato Robotics’ product line at IFA. The first, $499 Botvac D4 Connected, is aimed squarely at price-conscious shoppers. Neato hopes the second,…
Marsala wine is conventionally served as an aperitif, or even as a ‘dessert wine’ thanks to its sweeter taste; additionaly it’s common knowledge to savor a good wine with…
In today’s edition of life imitating art in the best way possible, Ben Hawkey, the actor who plays baking apprentice Hot Pie on Game of Thrones, has opened a bakery in…
Maple syrup production, one of New England’s cultural icons and a key economic component of the region, will shift northward during the next century due to rising temperatures that will…
Alexa is on so much more than just the Amazon Echo. Amazon executive Daniel Rausch stood onstage before a crowd of hundreds at Berlin’s IFA tech show Saturday to share…
London-based Josiah Jones graduated with a degree in Graphic Design Communication from the Chelsea College of Art & Design. There, he worked on a lunch tray whose 20 magnetized pieces…
Vegetation plays an important role in shaping local climate: just think of the cool shade provided by a forest or the grinding heat of the open desert. But what happens…
Electric vehicles play a key role in China’s plan to improve air quality and reduce CO2 emissions but, with the majority of China’s electricity still coming from coal-fired power plants,…