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Best smart home deal: Get $30 off the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium at Amazon
As of April 18, get the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium for just $219.99. That's $30 off its normal price of $249.99 and a discount of 12%.
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Making microbots smart
In the not-so-distant future, the surgeons who treat our ailments might be tiny machines that swim through our bodies, tracking down cancerous tumors or clearing clots from even the smallest arteries. If this sounds like science fiction, you’re not wrong: Movies like Fantastic Voyage and Innerspace have long played with the concept of shrinking machines down to the size of a single cell — yet over the past few years, advances in robotics and materials science have brought the idea ever closer to...
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Are smart cities a wise idea?
The development of a Smart City in Toronto, in partnership with Google, should be the realization of the tech utopia we’d been imagining. Complete with robots, autonomous cars, and the latest tech integrated into the city itself, it seems as if the residents are the lucky beneficiaries of Life 2.0. When the project was announced with great excitement in 2017, it seemed as if Canadians would be the luckiest, most advanced citizens on the planet. Which is why the vehement civic resistance to the...