Lifestyle & Travel
The Digital Detox Retreat Is Having a Renaissance
Phone-free hotels, analogue weekends and screen Sabbaths: the hospitality industry has discovered boredom as a luxury good. Notes from three days without a feed.
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Home & Living
Rooms, routines and the small upgrades that make a home work harder.
Technology
Smart Homes Get Simpler: Matter 2.0, Explained
The standard that was supposed to end smart-home chaos is growing up. Version 2 adds the pieces that were missing — cameras, appliances, energy — and finally rewards buying well once.
Lifestyle & Travel
The Home Coffee Bar, Without the Machinery Arms Race
Better coffee is mostly about water, ratio and a burr grinder — in that order. A calm guide to café-quality mornings that fits in one corner of a kitchen.
Lifestyle & Travel
The Capsule Wardrobe, Updated for People Who Like Clothes
The minimalist wardrobe movement has a puritan streak that puts people off. Here is the version that survives real life: fewer, better, and nothing you do not actually wear.