Govee’s first solar lighting product is a smart string light designed to be great outdoors
In banning Chinese-made cellular modules, the FCC could cause serious disruption to the supply chain of many electronic goods.
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Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you’ll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company’s new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for “toilet paper” will still return the expected […]
The Google Home app has been updated with significantly faster Gemini performance when you’re using voice commands or asking questions
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Google has rolled out a new Gemini for Home update with smarter camera search, faster device controls, better onboarding, and new Google Home app improvements.
iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its current lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher suction power, a smaller overall size to better navigate […]
Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together. This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) […]
I’ve always been skeptical of products that claim to help you lead a more creative life. But one recently won me over. I’ve spent three weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a smart cutting and drawing machine that made it easy for me to get back into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more. The small […]
Signify is giving its Philips Hue smart lights a special Sports Live feature for the duration of the World Cup 2026.
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Beatbot’s Anniversary Campaign makes robotic pool cleaning easier to adopt, with smarter upgrades across Sora, AquaSense X, and iSkim designed to reduce manual effort and improve coverage.