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 ...

Trading all of your home tech and appliances in for smart home gear is supposed to make your life easier, automating tasks and making it possible for you to control everything with your phone. But ...

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Samsung’s latest smart home hub piles on features—including unique tools like a wireless phone charger and an onboard action button—making for an affordable and easy-to-use smart home solution. It’s ...

Thanks to the ease and straightforwardness of the Amazon Echo Hub, my smart home finally makes sense to my family. Chris Wedel Home Tech Editor Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets.

LG is expanding its smart home offerings as the brand recently previewed its first-ever hub device: the ThinQ On. We don't know the specifics about the gadget at this moment, with the company keeping ...

SwitchBot AI Hub combines edge AI, Vision-Language Models, and OpenClaw to deliver always-on, conversational smart home ...

Turning your home into a smarter space can be surprisingly affordable. These under $50 gadgets bring automation, monitoring, ...