When looking for the best smart devices for your home or gifts for your friends, you may come across both the terms: “Bluetooth speaker” and “smart speaker.” The differences aren’t immediately ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Never get locked out again with a smart lock you can control from your phone, with your face, or with a ...

For all their clever tricks, smart speakers spend most of their time playing music, which presents a problem; many models, especially the inexpensive ones, don’t sound great. But there’s an easy fix: ...

As recently as two years ago, Philips Hue bulbs only supported the Zigbee wireless protocol, which meant you needed the Zigbee-enabled Hue Bridge Remove non-product link ($60, although it’s often ...

Smart speakers and Bluetooth speakers are both typically portable, and rely on wireless connections to play music. Regular bluetooth speakers just connect to your phone or computer to play audio, and ...

A smart lock offers the benefits of a conventional deadbolt without the need to carry a physical key. Instead, many smart locks have keypads for PINs and/or electronic keys, where the “key” lives in ...