Spotify Kids beta app finally arrives in U.S., Canada, and France
From Disney Junior and Mister Rogers to Billie Eilish and Beyoncé, the curated and ad-free Spotify Kids app comes loaded with thousands of tunes...
Everything You Need to Do to Secure Your Raspberry Pi Home Automation Projects
When you’re working with connected devices or home automation projects on the Raspberry Pi, it’s important to lock down your Raspberry Pi so it’s...
Home Control 2019 and ESP-GO
Introduction (Latest update April 03, 2019)
Minor update here - I've gone back to SDK 2.1 for now.
Sick of reading about other people’s home control?...
Original USB plug wasn’t reversible because being cheap was more important
The Universal Serial Bus standard came into being more than 20 years ago, ushering in the USB era, which has been defined...
IoT news of the week for March 15, 2019
Congress is back on IoT security bills: Maybe we won’t get any meaningful data privacy legislation, it appears that the US House and the US...
Smart Home Devices that are growing the Fastest
Smart Home Devices that are growing
the Fastest
Are you in the
market for smart home technology? If not you should be… The market is growing
at a...
What Home Automation Works with Google Home?
Among all smart home devices, how do you know what home automation works with Google home? Google Home first burst onto the scene back...
watchOS 7 to Include Kids Mode That Shifts Focus of Activity Rings Away From...
Apple's upcoming watchOS 7 update is expected to include a Kids Mode that's aimed at children who have an Apple Watch for activity tracking...
Meet Sonos Beam Soundbar – Sonos’ Latest Smart Speaker for both TV and Music
Sonos announced the Sonos Beam “soundbar” yesterday for the ultimate in in-home audio experience. The compact, smart soundbar is due out next month for...
Using the Xiaomi Aqara buttons with Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT
I had recently put Sengled Zigbee bulbs in my nightstand lamps to pair with Zigbee2MQTT on Home Assistant. I was using them to automatically...
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New Speech Recognition Experiments Demonstrate How Machine Learning Can Scale
Customer interactions with Alexa are constantly growing more complex, and on the Alexa science team, we strive to stay ahead of the curve by...
Amazon’s Alexa now handles patient health information
Today, Amazon announced that six health care companies and providers will allow customers to access some of their personalized medical information by...
SimpliSafe upgrades the DIY home security experience
SimpliSafe, a Boston-based home security company, launched their first security products in 2009 and the devices were a hit. Thanks to their home-security-in-a-box solution...
