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The Best Security Cameras of 2021
Security cameras help keep your home safe by scaring off intruders and monitoring what’s going on around you. They can continuously capture video, have two-way…
Google Takes a Big Step Toward the Unified Smart Home Future
Google Just months after announcing its commitment to Matter, the unified smart home standard, Google is launching a set of tools to help developers integrate…
Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn’t Enough, Researchers Find
As IoT devices like Amazon Echo become more and more popular, it isn’t unusual for users to re-sell them. Indeed, it’s increasingly common to come…
7 Tales of Smart Homes Gone Horribly Awry
As long as science fiction’s been around, and probably longer, the fear of technology has fueled the stories that keep us up at night. One…
Millions Upon Millions Upon Millions of Smart Devices Are Vulnerable to Hackers
New research shows that security flaws affecting as many as 100 million smart and industrial devices could allow a hacker to hijack the products or…
Why Your Smart Home Needs a Wi-Fi 6 Router
If you have dozens of Wi-Fi devices in your smart home, you might have noticed the network getting slower and slower. You might have upgraded to a…
How to Make It Easier to Control Smart Home Devices From Your Phone
Setting up your smart home and controlling it from your phone is easier than it’s ever been. Both Android 11 and iOS 14 include features…
A new app will help you identify IoT-connected devices around you, and tell you what data they’re collecting
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have come up with this new IoT Assistant app (available for both iOS and Android) that will supposedly inform you about what Internet-connected…
All Nest accounts will require extra sign-in security this spring
It’s not just Ring committing to improving the security of its smart home systems in 2020. Google’s Nest has announced that, as of this spring,…
Amazon Echo Show now scans barcodes for your grocery list
Amazon has launched a feature for newer Echo Show that lets you add items to Alexa’s built-in shopping list by scanning their barcodes. Sure, it’s…
What Is the Mirai Botnet, and How Can I Protect My Devices?
Maxim Apryatin/Shutterstock.com First discovered in 2016, the Mirai botnet took over an unprecedented number of devices and dealt massive damage to the internet. Now it’s…
Amazon releases Alexa app for Windows 10
Amazon has released its Alexa app for Windows 10, which is now available from the Microsoft Store. Alexa was already on some Windows 10 machines,…
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