Last week in tech: Welcome back from the upside down

Here are the tech stories you missed while preparing for your Stranger Things binge.
By Abiodun Opeyemi Cornelius. Today at 11:16 AM 










It’s time to push yourself through that goopy, otherworldly gate from your weekend spent binge watching Stranger Things and back into the realm of the real world. Here’s a recap of some of the best new gear and tech stories you might have missed last week while you were perfecting your Eleven costume.

House call

Amazon Key is a new service available in 37 cities across the country that allows a delivery person to drop off that thing you ordered inside your house. You need a Prime membership, as well as a compatible smart lock, and one of Amazon’s new Cloud Cams, so you can watch the person via live stream as they make the drop. It’s a big step for the online retailer, but ultimately a stepping stone toward the inevitable future in which we all live and work inside self-contained cities located within massive Amazon warehouses.