I'm a strong believer in home automation over home control. Being able to turn your smart light bulbs on and off from an app ...

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Ubuntu, combined with open source tools like Home Assistant, provides a powerful and flexible foundation for home automation.

If the new Alexa can work as well in my home as it did in the demos I saw this week, this will be a major shift in home automation. Amazon Alexa Plus costs $19.99 a month and is included in Prime ...

We love decking our home with the best smart home devices. They enable us to control our appliances with our voice, have the lights and the heating just so when we get home from work, and help us ...

Amazon has announced that it will scrap a setting that currently allows some Amazon Echo users to store and process their Alexa requests locally. In other words, all Alexa voice recordings of some ...

It marks the most significant upgrade of Alexa yet, injected with an unprecedented ... reinforcing their role as smart home hubs, but I’d like to see some of that focus shift to enhancing ...

Hisense made headlines at CES 2025 earlier this year announcing its HT Saturn wireless home theater system, a four-speaker-plus-subwoofer outfit that uses Hisense’s “Hi-Concerto” technology ...

Pending home sales in the United States slid to an all-time low in January as high mortgage rates, record-high home prices, and possibly the terrible weather last month hindered those seeking to buy.

This new Alexa will be able to do everything from create ... And, while Alexa+ is being pitched as the ultimate daily assistant in your home, Amazon will have to convince people to use it on ...

Photo / Chris Keall Christchurch’s Evnex releases a home EV charger for the cost-of-living-crisis era. Amazon’s cloud division, AWS, reveals its latest NZ financials. Alexa gets AI smarts.

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