Filed under: Google Policy Smart Home Nest is getting ready for the smart home’s Cambridge Analytica moment New, 20 ‘Works With Nest’ will be replaced by a tighter set of rules for partner devices By Russell Brandom Oct 16, 2019, 9:42am EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share […]
The new Google Nest Mini Google The much leaked Pixel 4 is, unsurprisingly, grabbing the lion’s share of the headlines from the big Google hardware event—but smart home fans will be pleased to see that the search giant has taken the covers off of a couple of key new smart […]
Credit: Amazon On our most recent IoT Podcast, Judy called into our hotline and asked if it makes sense to install wired ethernet in a new home she’s having built. And specifically, she’s wondering if she should even consider locations such as her garage for wired connections. Without a doubt, […]
Since first reviewing the product last November, I’ve had Lutron’s Caséta Wireless Dimmer on my bedside table, which I use to control my reading lamp. The tiny Pico remote makes it easy to control the light without having to crawl out of bed, and it’s never given me a minute […]
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Tyler Lizenby/CNET It’s already October, which makes the next three months the most expensive of the year for most of us. And as you travel more, your house become more vulnerable to burglary. So the question is, how do you protect your house without adding another expense on top of […]
Most products are not capable of becoming the default for an entire category. But most products are not Amazon’s suite of Alexa-enabled home devices. The tech giant’s Echo, Echo Dot, and other products have essentially defined the smart devices for consumers and put Amazon in first place for smart speaker […]
Mesh tech is as beneficial to smart home devices as it is to home networking, so it makes sense to deploy a single product that can handle both missions—provided that single device offers best-in-class performance in both areas. While the second-generation Samsung SmartThings Wifi mesh router is a great smart […]
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What if the next time your dishwasher went on the fritz or your smart lights failed to switch on, you could quickly dial for help using a voice assistant? That’s the idea behind Sweepr, a two-year-old Dublin, Ireland-based startup that’s developing what it calls a contextually adaptive care platform. By […]