You’ve probably already heard that a total solar eclipse will travel across the United States from coast to coast on August 21st, and that it’s going to be perhaps the biggest celestial event of the…
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Amazon Is Testing a Geek Squad-Like Service for Smart Home Tech
Amazon Is Testing a Geek Squad-Like Service for Smart Home Tech Amazon.com (AMZN, +1.43%) is trying out yet a new strategy that should strike fear into the hearts of its brick-and-mortar rivals. The online store has been assembling…
T3 Agenda: Bosch’s new range of smart home tech, a marble pedestal for your Apple notebook and more
In this week’s final edition of the T3 Agenda, we see how Bosch wants to help smarten up your home with its brand new range of products, a new pedestal made of actual marble and…
CEDIA home tech association to build HQ in Fishers
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A home technology association announced Tuesday it will build a $13.7 million headquarters in Fishers. CEDIA is an international trade association with more than 3,500 member companies that design, make and install…
Where does the smart home fit into Apple’s HomePod?
It’s impossible to miss one of Apple’s biggest ambitions for the HomePod: control over your home, and a central placement within it. It’s right there in the name. And yet, the way Apple is trying…
Apple Puts Siri Helper at Center of Growing Home-Tech Empire
Apple Inc.’s first major new product for two years, the HomePod speaker, marks the biggest effort yet from the technology company to use its Siri digital assistant to keep customers wedded to a growing palette…
A smarter way to protect your smart home?
As smart home products and connected devices grow in popularity, so will the cyber risks they potentially pose to their owners. “A smart home can quickly become a fool’s paradise when IoT devices are not…
Smart home technology: How to build the perfect high-tech home
A Wi-Fi kettle. Try that again in your best Peter Kay voice. “Wi-Fi? Kettle?” Yes folks, welcome to 2017, the year in which you can buy a kettle that connects to your home network so…
Essential Home wants to be ‘bridge’ between Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant
On Tuesday, at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, Android co-founder Andy Rubin explained that his recently-debuted smart home hub, the Essential Home, will offer to support Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri,…
Nest Security Camera Knows Who’s Home with Google Face Tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Nest Labs is adding Google’s facial recognition technology to a high-resolution home-security camera, offering a glimpse of a future in which increasingly intelligent, internet-connected computers can see and understand what’s going on…