Underwater ‘Roombas’ are searching the ocean floor for barrels of toxic chemicals off California

Ocean scientists are using robot submariness to detect barrels of toxic chemicals under the sea. Thousands of barrels of DDT and other substances are believed submerged in the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, but authorities aren’t sure where or how many. To get an idea, researchers have launched two ‘underwater Roombas,’ Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) … Read more

Widespread Amazon cloud service outage disables Roombas, Ring doorbells, even Christmas lights

A large-scale outage on Amazon’s cloud service this week wreaked widespread havoc on websites and software services. In addition to disabling Flickr, Adobe and the Washington Post’s website, the outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday caused Roombas, Rokus, Ring doorbells and other smart household appliances to stop functioning. The issue, which impacted the … Read more