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Starfield's 1.10.31 update is now live, and it includes a massive number of bug fixes and gameplay improvements, many of which address issues that players have been dealing with since day one.Though the game arguably launched with far fewer bugs than previous Bethesda titles, one bug in particular--which caused painstakingly placed furniture and carefully collected items from around the galaxy to disappear from player housing in New Atlantis after certain plot developments occurred--has caused a…

Artificial intelligence is moving into the housing space, specifically architecture.ICON, which developed one of the first fully 3D-printed housing developments in the U.S., is taking automation another step further. It recently unveiled what it calls Vitruvius, an AI program that helps consumers design custom homes online and get the plans, making the process cheaper and faster."The big vision of Vitruvius is to go all the way from human desire all the way through deliveries, like construction documents, budgets,…

In the desert around Scottsdale, Ariz., on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an international heist ring suspected of swiping jewels and luxury goods from homes across Los Angeles. Using helicopters and drones, they eventually found him hiding under a tree. The wanted man, it turned out, was a 17-year-old from Chile.Authorities say the teenager and his two adult accomplices later admitted to breaking into multiple homes, part of a growing trend of “burglary tourism” from South America. The Los Angeles…

The National Association of Realtors announced Friday that it had reached a legal settlement that upends the traditional model of sellers paying for the buyer’s agent in a home purchase. The agreement has the potential to save home sellers billions of dollars every year, but could also complicate purchases for buyers. The NAR, the largest trade group representing residential real estate agents, agreed to pay $418 million over four years to settle claims that the group and its members engaged in uncompetitive practices…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes severe health effects such as neurological damage, organ failure and death.Widely used in products such as paint and gasoline until the late 1970s, lead continues to contaminate environments and harm the health of people around the world.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain About 87% of voters think that homes that are more affordable to heat are "important" or "very important" for the U.K., according to a study by The University of Bath, Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The survey investigated…

Shawn Lustigman is selling a luxury, gated enclave with two homes within walking distance of Cherry Creek for $8.7 million. After the mobile home park owner bought the brick home at 2880 E. Cedar Ave. 20 years ago, he divided the land into two parcels and built a mansion on the 2800 block of East Cedar Avenue. Now, because he and his family spend most of their time in Florida, he’s selling both homes. “Nobody’s using the house except me for a week to 10 days every month,” Lustigman said. “I thought the kids might use the…

The Matter-over-Thread support is probably one of the best features that the Aqara U200 smart lock advertises. A Matter integration makes the U200 interoperable with many smart home automation systems, including Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, and IFTTT. This type of connectivity protocol ensures the lock stays connected regardless of your internet connection, and leveraging the Thread protocol delivers a reliable, low-operation smart home solution.Also: 5 things I learned while building…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The lack of meaningful action to tackle Britain's cold homes over the last decade has intensified existing inequalities—with many millions of households now at the point of crisis, finds a new report from the UCL Institute of Health Equity (UCL IHE). Produced as a follow-up to the 2011 report, The Health Impacts of…

Some Wyze camera owners have reported that they were suddenly given access to cameras that weren't theirs and even got notifications for events inside other people's homes. Wyze cofounder David Crosby has confirmed the issue to The Verge, telling the publications that "some users were able to see thumbnails of cameras that were not their own in the Events tab." Users started seeing strangers' camera feeds in their accounts after an outage that Wyze said was caused by an Amazon Web Services problem.Crosby wrote in a post…