This Week in Tech

Meet the Smart Home Impenetrable Mailbox for Your Packages

Meet the Smart Home Impenetrable Mailbox for Your Packages

Porch piracy is an ever-increasing problem, especially in a world where more people than ever are shopping from home. If you aren’t there to pick up a package when it arrives, there is a solid chance it may not be there when you get home. Eufy Security has unveiled its Smart Drop, a smart, connected lockbox that uses a built-in camera and advanced artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology to keep an eye on your packages while you’re away…


Japan’s ‘Flying Car’ Gets Off Ground, With a Person Aboard

TOKYO (AP) — The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory…


Elon Musk Demonstrates Neuralink’s Tech Live Using Pigs With Surgically Implanted Brain-Monitoring Devices

Elon Musk has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human brain and computing devices. On Friday, the company provided a demo of the technology, and Musk kicked off the demo by saying that the purpose of the entire presentation was recruiting — not fundraising or any other kind of promotion.


LG Unveils Battery-Powered Air-Purifying Face Mask

LG on Thursday announced an air-purifying face mask, which the company plans to show off at next week’s IFA trade show in Berlin. The face mask will fit like many others, with loops that hook behind the ears, but LG said it’ll include two high-quality HEPA filters that can remove at least 99.97% of particulates in the air down to .3 microns in size…


Student Turns Fresh Watermelon Into Classic Game Boy With Raspberry Pi

Summer is coming to a close in the northern hemisphere, and the flow of choice produce will also slow down in grocery stores. But a student in Singapore turned quarantine boredom into a chance to build a playable Game Boy contained inside a fresh watermelon, according to a video he posted to YouTube…


A Solar-Panel Bed Cover Brings Sustainable Power to Gas-Powered Pickups — and Could Someday Help Charge EV Pickups From Rivian, Ford, and GM

With a flood of electric pickup trucks poised to hit the market in the near future, aftermarket accessory companies are starting to go green, too…


Energy Firm Says Its Nuclear-Waste Fueled Diamond Batteries Could Last Thousands of Years

A cellphone power source that lasts nine years. An auto-battery pack that lasts nearly a century. A pacemaker that is powered to last 28,000 years…