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It’s all fun and games until AI comes for your job – the hens will eventually come home to roost for executives
Having spent the last 12 months championing the company’s use of AI to automate roles, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski appears to be worried about his own prospects in years to come. In a post on X earlier this month, Siemiatkowski hinted that AI could eventually render his own role obsolete, suggesting that the technology is nearing a point where it…
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Five Concrete Ways to Lower the Cost of a Home Renovation
Renovating your home is an opportunity to personalize a space, improve its usability, and simply have a more beautiful place to live. But there’s a price to pay for those benefits—both in terms of stress and disruption and in terms of money. The average whole house remodel costs anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000, which is a lot of money for…
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5 Home Organizing Mistakes and What to Do Instead
Parting with items is never easy, but the reality is, not everything you own deserves to remain in your home. “The biggest organizational mistake I see is when people have more stuff than space to house it,” says Elese Denis, founder of Denis Organization. The fix here is to reduce the amount of clutter and be more methodical about how…
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These Six Materials May Be Blocking Your Home Wifi Signal
Nothing can ruins your day more thoroughly than a crappy wifi signal that slows your entire life to a crawl filled with error messages, broken images, and tedious loading animations that quickly test your sense of reality. When that’s the situation in your own home, it’s even worse—because it’s inescapable. If your wifi signal isn’t making it past the room…
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Nest Protect support arrives in the Google Home app
Passcode Management: You’ll be able to manage who has access to your home by sharing and editing passcodes with ease to household members and guests. One-tap entry: You can enable one-tap entry instead of typing in your passcode and you can lock/unlock your door remotely from the Home app with just a tap of a button. Automatic locking: Choose how…
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These 5 Apps Have a Permanent Spot on My Home Screen
Your home screen says a lot about you—it’s like the front door to your digital life. While most people might expect to see the usual social media apps, the apps I’m highlighting here serve a specific utility—they’re tools I rely on to stay productive, entertained, and organized. 1 1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare Kabir Jain / How-To Geek This app is my…
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How to Treat IBS at Home
Drugs aren’t always the best way to manage symptoms By Sally Wadyka About 10 to 15 percent of adults in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, a condition that causes abdominal pain, gas, diarrhea, and constipation. It’s typically diagnosed in early adulthood, but plenty of older adults deal with IBS symptoms. "There is no ’cure’ for IBS," says Jessica Jou,…
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How Taking Off My Apple Watch Helps Me Disconnect at Home
I wore an Apple Watch all day, every day, for over six years. I would always put it on right when I woke up, and only take it off before bed. I recently stopped wearing my Apple Watch at home, and it’s been a very enlightening and freeing experience. I’ve Been a Smartwatch User Since the Original Moto 360 To…
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Best Smart Home Devices of 2025
Here at Consumer Reports, we put these products through rigorous tests, such as analyzing the sound quality of smart speakers, judging the cleaning capabilities of robotic vacuums, and evaluating the data security of cameras and doorbells to help you avoid hacks. What’s the result of all that work? Below, CR members with digital access can see the very best products…
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Three Early Signs Your Home Has a Rodent Infestation
The challenge of making your home into a comfortable, safe space that you feel good about living in is that those efforts can also make it a comfortable, safe space for pests. Like you, rodents want somewhere warm where they can feast on the finest grocery store cereals your money can buy. By the time you actually see a mouse,…
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