Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Smart Home

Learn about a wonderful and fast-developing world of home automation and smart devices. Anything from smart grills or ovens to smart remote controls and smart sprinkler systems.

The Wild West era of the smart home is at an end

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The Stringify app lets you combine services and gadgets to create flows. The buyers of smart home gear woke up on Monday to some pretty...

Fluance Fi20 Bluetooth speaker review: Stylish good looks and rich sound unfortunately marred by...

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Wireless portable speakers have become an essential product category in the audio marketplace. Lots of us want to play our music anywhere and share...

What Home Automation Works with Google Home?

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Among all smart home devices, how do you know what home automation works with Google home? Google Home first burst onto the scene back...

The Cheapest Ways to Get Netflix on Your TV

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You don’t have to buy a smart TV to watch Netflix on the big screen. In fact, you can get the job done for...

IoT news of the week for April 5, 2019

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Predix puts manufacturing data in the cloud: GE has announced a new product that allows companies with multiple factories to consolidate data from those factories...

Google Maps is borrowing another of Waze’s best features with traffic slowdown reporting

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Being able to report incidents on the road, like traffic jams and accidents, has been a staple of Google-owned Waze for years,...

Microsoft’s new 50-person group video chat feature for Skype exits beta

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Starting today, you can use Skype with up to 50 video chat participants, as part of a new update to the stable...

Turns out Amazon buying Eero wasn’t the startup success story we thought

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When Amazon bought mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero, our first reactions were of exhaustion, consternation and concern: why couldn’t a tiny company...

The Best Ebook Readers (That Aren’t Kindles)

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Amazon Amazon has completely dominated the ebook reader market, but you don’t have to use a Kindle to get your ebook fix. There are a...

Make My Apartment Smart

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How do I make my apartment smart? While America is still a nation of homeowners, more US citizens are renting than at any point...

Latest article

Build a Twitter-Based Home Automation System with a Raspberry Pi

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There are all sorts of variations on Raspberry Pi-powered home automation systems, but ARM Tutorials shows off a pretty simple project that uses Twitter...

Best smart thermostat: Reviews and buying advice

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The best smart thermostat will have an outsize impact not only how comfortable you are in your home, but also on your household budget....

IoT news of the week for March 27, 2020

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Building a digital watermark to track industrial IoT hacks: Researchers have come up with code that helps companies create a digital watermark for sensitive data...