home automation
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Samsung’s New Robot Vacuum Is Scarily Intelligent
Robot vacuums have always used sensors to detect furniture and identify your spaces, but of course, you’d expect one coming out in 2024 to be significantly more intelligent. In the era of AI-powered everything, Samsung just announced the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo, a smart vacuum/mop/steamer robot that knows when it needs to dig into a…
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Philips Hue Announces New Full Home Security Suite
Philips Hue, the brand mostly known for its smart home lighting tech, is casting a big, blinding spotlight on its new security tech suite. Despite the shift to smart home cameras and sensors, the company is saying it’s still focused on lighting tech, though its now-Matter-enabled brand of bulbs and strips are there to cast…
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Wonderfully Over-Engineered Kitchen Timer Makes Any Chef Look as Cool as Guy Fieri
It isn’t a fear of failure, or of accidentally giving dinner guests food poisoning, that keeps people from learning to cook. It’s obviously a lack of kitchen tools that make you feel like a futuristic anime hero wielding a cool-looking blaster. Well, one maker has solved that problem by creating the most wonderfully over-engineered kitchen…
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The Smart Home Of The Future Just Got Delayed — Again
Where is Matter, the smart home standard of the future? The specification still feels like a theory. It doesn’t help that there’s yet another delay on the horizon.