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'British homes need to be ready for freezing winters and increasingly hot summers': new add-on for Octopus heat pumps gives you air conditioning for just £500

Octopus Energy has revealed the Cosy cooler add-onIt's a unit that works with the Cosy heat pump to transform your central heating system into air conditioningA unit cools one room and costs £500, with multiple units…

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TechRadar ·16 days ago

UK government reveals £90m plan to warm homes with data center waste heat, with 750,000 homes getting cheaper heating

£90 million is being allocated toward using excess heat from UK data centersIn London, around 650,000 homes will receive cut-price heating via a “mega heat project”The project is described as delivering “clean heat” to…

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Newatlas ·18 days ago

3D-printed Martian mud homes look critical for life beyond Earth

The future where humans colonize Mars is fast approaching. A future with self-sustaining biospheres, autonomous rovers, helicopters with rotors that break the sound barrier, and – perhaps – mud houses.

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Newatlas ·21 days ago

Compact tiny house delivers single-floor living for under $35K

Though the small living movement is trending toward larger and more luxurious homes in general, there are still cheap and cheerful tiny houses out there.

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Electrek ·last mo.

US solar can now power 50M homes – and red states led the boom

The US achieved a pretty big solar milestone in Q2 2026: it now has enough installed capacity to generate clean electricity equivalent to that used by more than 50 million homes.

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TechRadar ·last mo.

This mini hi-fi hub is perfect for smaller homes — but it ain't cheap

Marantz unveils MCR 60n mini hi-fi hubAmp and streamer which includes MM phono stage and HDMI eARCDesigned to be compact, so it won't take up as much space as a hi-fi stack If you're under the assumption that your small…

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The Verge ·last mo.

The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs

The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes.

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Petapixel ·2 mo. ago

Photographer Spends 16 Years Documenting Baltimore’s Abandoned Homes

A photographer has been capturing abandoned homes in Baltimore and the surrounding areas for the past 16 years — dodging ticks, copperheads, drug dealers, hunters with high-powered rifles, and farmers on ATVs.