The 8-inch touchscreen panel wants to quarterback your connected home with support for Matter, Thread, Zigbee and more, plus a new Map View mode. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s new smart home controller feels like a decent piece of hardware, but the interactive widgets make it ...

The Echo Hub and Echo Show 8 (3rd Gen) are two of the newest products to join the Amazon catalog. Both are designed with large touchscreens and make it easy to access the Alexa voice assistant, ...

Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more than ...

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Hagop is passionate about smart home products, especially when it comes to making life easier. He's always eager to try out new technologies to make life easier, in terms of cleaning, automation, and ...

Part smart assistant, part mini TV and part home automation hub, the Echo Show 11 is designed to rule your living space ...

If you’re seeking to make your home smarter, odds are you’re in between two smart home ecosystems, Amazon Alexa versus Google Home. Both Amazon Alexa- and Google Assistant-enabled devices can help ...

Today, Amazon announced over a dozen new devices, including Echo speakers, Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, and the company’s first wall-mounted smart home hub device, called the Echo Hub. In addition, ...

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