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Build a Web Connected Thermostat with a Raspberry Pi and and...
Web connected thermostats are great, but they're expensive. If you want to make your own, blogger and engineer Nooganeer shows how to build one...
Home Security
Ecobee appears to be quietly making its first video camera
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Getting started with AWS IoT Device Defender
Your fleet of IoT devices has diverse capabilities, is long lived, and is geographically distributed. These characteristics coupled with the growing number of connected...
Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor review: A must-have accessory for Hue smart lighting owners
Any smart floodlight will have a motion detector that will turn on its light when someone enters its detection zone. What makes the Philips...
The best Google Home-compatible smart home devices
Google Home, the search giant’s series of smart speakers powered by Google Assistant, is a pretty impressive hands-free helper. You can ask it when...
Best smart bulbs for your connected home
Smart light bulbs—LED-based bulbs that can be controlled by a hub or smartphone app—are no longer a new idea. What is new is how...
Voice Assistants
Microsoft now lets you stream PC games to an Xbox One and use a...
Microsoft is now letting Xbox One owners stream their PC games to the console and use a controller to play them. A...
Getting Started: Build a Cortana Skill that can stream audio on the new Harman...
This week, Harman Kardon launched Invoke - the voice-activated speaker featuring Cortana. The Harman Kardon Invoke speaker combines the rich, captivating sound that Harman Kardon is...
Getting started: Playing short audio clips & composing speech responses in your Cortana Skill
In this blog post we will see how Cortana skills can play short audio clips and compose the Text-to-Speech(TTS) responses that Cortana speaks on...
AirKast and Cortana: Streaming quality radio content using the Cortana Skills Kit
With the launch of the new Harman Kardon Invoke speaker, consumers now have access to a home speaker that combines premium Harman Kardon audio...
Why the market for smart speaker apps can’t possibly rival that of smartphones yet
Last month, I wrote about the large disparity of third-party apps and actions between Amazon Echo and Google Home devices, which prompted a great...
Smart Devices
This cheaper-than-ever Kindle for Kids bundle helps children learn to love...
Kindles have long been a choice e-reader for anyone who likes to read, and the kids version brought all its finer features to a...
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