I’ve got Amazon Echo devices in a few of my rooms at home as the gateway to my smart home system. I started with one Echo Dot in the living room, but added a new Dot with a clock to the bedroom and ...

The Shelly Plug US Gen4 packs Wi-Fi 6, Matter, Zigbee, and power metering into one device. It’s the most future-proof smart ...

Amazon's Alexa makes for a great smart home hub, adding voice command capabilities to multiple devices, as well as letting ...

If you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you probably already know you can ask it to make a grocery list, give a weather forecast, or ponder the meaning of life. What you might not realize is that you ...

In spite of my job testing home technology and appliances, I’m actually very old-school when it comes to how I run my home. I tell the time with a clock and jot down reminders on a pad of paper by the ...

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The new voice lets Alexa drop profanities, pile on the sarcasm, and generally speak her truth. I kind of…liked it?

A bedtime story turned nightmare: an Amazon Alexa device interrupted a 4-year-old’s tale to ask an ‘inappropriate’ question, prompting a Texas mom to pull the plug. Christy Hosterman, 32, said the ...

I set up smart switches to power my home, and they've made this lazy man into a genius ...