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Boldr Kelvin Review (2026): Heats Your Body, Heats the Wall

Boldr Kelvin Review (2026): Heats Your Body, Heats the Wall

Company cofounder and CEO Madi Ablyazov told WIRED in a video interview last April that he views the heater as just one part of an energy management platform that would allow homeowners to track energy usage and costs across devices as diverse as heat pumps and solar panels. Boldr is, at heart, a tech startup that happens to have a space heater. The Wi-Fi– and Bluetooth-connected Boldr app tracks energy usage over time, potentially on multiple devices and in multiple rooms. Temperature and humidity are measured by one of multiple external thermostats, including a Klima smart controller ($165) that could ideally sync with your home’s other heat pumps or AC units. Boldr app via Matthew Korfhage The app is still a work in progress, however, and has changed dramatically over the past year. As with most smart-home devices I’ve tested, there’s a bit of trial and error before Boldr’s devices decided to play nice with my router. This is a known difficulty with all 2.4-GHz smart-home devices, whether meat probes or security cameras. Still, the …

Kelvin MacKenzie praises ‘decent Guardian journalism’ and says he was ‘duped’ over hacking

Kelvin MacKenzie praises ‘decent Guardian journalism’ and says he was ‘duped’ over hacking

Kelvin MacKenzie must rank as the most successful editor ever to work for Rupert Murdoch. He guided The Sun to its highest circulation and was responsible for many of its memorable iconic headlines. He regarded Murdoch, the man he affectionately called “boss”, as the world’s greatest newspaper owner. When the phone-hacking scandal broke in 2011, MacKenzie was among the most forthright supporters of Murdoch’s company. In the course of several TV and radio appearances, he echoed the News International line that a single “rogue reporter” had been responsible for voicemail interceptions. It has long been known that MacKenzie was deeply upset when the truth about the scale of hacking finally emerged. But he maintained a silence in public until his appearance on ITV documentary The Real Hack – the companion to a seven-part drama series, The Hack. He has now revealed just how angry he was to discover the fact that hundreds of people had been hacked by journalists working for the News of the World. He said: “I wrote a note to Rebekah Brooks …