Best of CES 2025: The smart home & home security gear we loved
It’s been another banner year for home security and smart home at CES, and after scouring the show floor, we’ve rounded up the smart products that stood apart from the rest. Among […]
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Haus.me shows off a tiny smart home you can plop anywhere
What could be cooler than a smart home? A move-in ready, energy-efficient, tiny smart home that can be delivered and set up at your home site in just a few hours, without […]
TP-Link’s Tapo smart home ecosystem is expanding rapidly
TP-Link’s Tapo smart home ecosystem gained a host of new products at CES 2025, including new home security cameras, smart lighting products—including a bona fide NVR system. But if the recent stories […]
Shelly’s Gen 4 smart home devices take a different approach
If you don’t know Shelly, you should. Extremely popular among hard-core smart home enthusiasts, the company introduced the fourth generation of its innovative smart home controls at CES this week. What makes […]
How to clear recent files from Photoshop Home Screen
Recently, I was needing to hide the thumbnails from Photoshop’s welcome screen. I was about to do a livestream and didn’t want to show my client’s images. (Celebrities are big on privacy. […]
PSA: Turn off your phone’s Wi-Fi when leaving home
You rarely think about the Wi-Fi function on your mobile phone in everyday life – except perhaps when you’re on a plane and switch off the connection during take-off. Otherwise, it usually […]
Best of CES 2025: The PC and home tech that blew us away
You never know what you’re going to get with CES. Of course, we knew we’d hear a lot about AI — check — and that there’d be announcements of new CPUs and […]
Decade-old Nest Protect smoke detector finally lands on Google’s Home app
For years, owners of Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector have been asking when their devices would make the leap from the older Nest app to Google Home, and the answer was always the […]
How to keep your home network secure: Smart tricks and settings
Network security is not just for IT professionals. Even home users need to keep their networks secure to prevent unauthorized people from, for example, hogging their broadband, installing malware that turns connected […]
Flic Duo smart home button is available for discounted pre-order
If one smart button is great, two must be phenomenal, right? Well, we’ll need to wait until we can lay hands on one, but Flic is now taking discounted pre-orders on its […]