There are some cool smart home gadgets coming this year, but the real breakthroughs for 2025 are yet to be seen. David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, ...

LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over the past 25 years, Vivint has grown from a singular focus on home security to pioneering an integrated smart home experience with security at its core. Today’s ...

On paper, the up-and-coming Matter standard appears to be an ideal solution for smart homes: a protocol that enables the competing Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, and other major smart-home platforms ...

2025 was supposed to be the year that AI transformed our smart homes. Amazon promised that Alexa+ would be a generative AI breakthrough. Google declared Gemini for Home would usher in a "new era" of ...

If you don’t know Shelly, you should. Extremely popular among hard-core smart home enthusiasts, the company introduced the fourth generation of its innovative smart home controls at CES this week.

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