Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device ...

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 a.m. and you hear an eardrum-piercing beep. Your first reaction is to cover your head with a pillow and pretend it never happened. Eventually the slow chirping takes ...

So I wake up at 4:45a to loud beeping. At first I thought it was my knucklehead upstairs neighbor's alarm clock which I can hear quite clearly due to the cardboard ceiling.<BR><BR>No. It's coming from ...