Palo Alto-based Abode Systems, which manufactures the popular Abode Essentials smart home security kit, is adding an upgrade in 2019 by releasing the second generation of its Abode smart home gateway, adding optional 4G cellular backup connectivity and…
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While Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant carry on their race for connected-home supremacy, device manufacturers continue to launch smart products for every area in the house and yard. As we saw at CES 2019, most new digital home d…
Amazon hired fewer seasonal workers in 2018 than for the two preceding years, suggesting the company is succeeding in its efforts to automate its operations.
But its warehouse-based robots aren’t yet skillful enough to allow the company to completely…
The dream of the smart home is that every object in our houses can communicate with every other one. But, as great as that sounds on paper, it’s not very practical.For one thing, it means replacing plenty of perfectly good “dumb” objects with pricier “…
We’re all getting pretty used to summoning our various devices via voice by now, be it through Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, or Google Assistant. Now a new company is getting into the smart home ecosystem this month. Universal Electronics, Inc.(UEI) an…
Patents are not always a lot of fun but they do turn up a lot of weird potential applications for future technology. This week’s turned up a patent application posted on January 10 by Amazon that looks like Alexa’s parent company has figured out a ne…
With the concern over privacy and security surrounding the Internet of Things, a lot of creative terms have been thrown around in reference to devices that always listen in — parasite is one common phrase. But what better way to beat a parasite than …
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Facebook’s Portal and Portal+ smart displays weren’t particularly well received when they launched a couple of months back. Digital Trends, for example, could only muster a single star out of a possible five in its less-than-lu…
