Here's what to get for your friend with the fiddly fingers and stinky feet. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. You love them, but something is clearly wrong with them. They smell like old yogurt, and possibly they live in a van.

Lennar New Home Consultant Brittney Svach is selling "smart homes" at the Amazon Experience Center in Black Diamond, Washington, about an hour south of Seattle. Lennar New Home Consultant Brittney Svach is selling "smart homes" at the Amazon Experience Center in Black Diamond, Washington, about an hour south of Seattle. When the Ferguson family decided they wanted to live in the Seattle suburb of Black Diamond they weren't in the market for a smart home. But they wound up with one, a house packed with Internet-connected devices. "I just feel really fancy," she says about having Amazon's Alexa there to turn on the lights for her, or to remind her when to go to cheerleading practice.

Suppose you were to watch a stream of numbers… and given the previous number you saw you had to predict what the next number should be. For example, suppose you saw 1,2,1,2,… We might guess: 1. Or perhaps, what if you saw 0,0,1,2,3…? Should it be 4? It almost feels like a domino effect. In this post we walk through predicting a specific type of spike in domain queries associated with some botnets.