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…
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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…
Star Trek gets closer to becoming home tech
Winning Final Frontier “tricorder” team consists of Harris family members, including brothers (left to right) George, Basil and Gus. XPRIZE A half-century ago, the television series Star Trek introduced the world to the idea of…
3 Perks That Will Push Smart Home Tech Into the Main Stream
Despite all the buzz over technologies like Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home and Nest, the market for smart home tech remains in the nascent stage. BI Intelligence places it in the “chasm” of technology adoption, having…
Greg Gianforte’s slam drives home intersection of tech, politics
Ben Jacobs claims Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte “body slammed” him after he asked about the latest CBO score. A Buzzfeed reporter confirmed the account saying she heard a loud crash and saw his feet…