9 Best Articles in 2022
Entrepreneur
6 Smart Home Gadgets That Are Actually Worth Owning
Entrepreneur
3 min read · From 2020 · Like any tech product, some smart home devices are better than others.
Reader View · Shared by 489, including Liv 😷, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Tauno, Ron McIntyre, Real Marsha Wright®
Gizmodo
The House That Spied on Me
Gizmodo
~19 min read · From 2018 · In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my…
Reader View · Shared by 227, including Chris {he, they}, Jane, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Leif & Direkt, jean marc manach, tjalve, Rodrigo Prior, Hampus Jakobsson, Data Science Renee, Philippe Surber, Howard Getson, Massimo Banzi, luis antónio santos, Barnaby Skinner, Ralph Hutter, ➤ Cyril Druesne, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Stephan Woodtli, anildash, Matthew Turland
Guardian Tech
How to stop your smart home spying on you
Guardian Tech
5 min read · From 2020 · Everything in your smart home, from the lightbulbs to the thermostat, could be recording you or collecting data about you. What can you do to curb this intrusion?
Reader View · Shared by 119, including Faik Ersoy, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Tim Hayden
Ars Technica
Apple, Google, and Amazon team up to create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard
Ars Technica
3 min read · From 2019 · Will this be the one smart home standard to rule them all or just another entry?
Reader View · Shared by 125, including Niklaus Gerber, Stephan Woodtli, Douglas Karr, Marsha Collier, milan-fostier, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Mozilla
Privacy Included: Rethinking the Smart Home
Mozilla
From 2019 · A special edition from the Internet Health Report on rethinking the smart home.
Shared by 67, including anildash, Andrés Rodríguez Flores, Katja Evertz, Faik Ersoy, Cory Doctorow
The Verge
Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard
The Verge
2 min read · From 2019 · So everything will just work with whatever smart assistant you already have.
Reader View · Shared by 140, including Johannes Dornisch, Peter Schmidhuber, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Sachin Rekhi, Kunal Bhatia (in NYC till 5/22), Javi Cantón, Leo Blazquez, Thomas Telandro, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
Forbes
Confirmed: 2 Billion Records Exposed In Massive Smart Home Device Breach
Forbes
4 min read · From 2019 · Smart IoT devices are increasingly being purchased to bolster home, and business, security. Which is all well and good until a device management company forgets to password protect the user database…
Reader View · Shared by 50, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Eric Seufert, Yvette Dubel, Niklaus Gerber, Bernhard Huessy, Oliver Raduner
Forbes
Smart From The Start: ‘Smart Home’ Is Becoming ‘Sustainable Home’
Forbes
5 min read · 2021-11-24 · How smart is your “smart home” when it’s out of power? Increasingly, smart homes are homes that are sustainable ... and resilient.
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, John Koetsier, W. David Stephenson
Ars Technica
How to achieve Smart Home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription)
Ars Technica
~14 min read · 2021-03-31 · With some work and planning, Home Assistant sets your Smart Home.
Reader View · Shared by 38, including Kaspar Manz
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Stacey Higginbotham
Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock
Stacey Higginbotham
4 min read · May 4th · Ever since Apple announced Home Key last year, I’ve been anxiously waiting to try a smart lock that supports it. Home Key uses the same NFC technology as ApplePay on iOS devices. With Home Key, an…
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦
The Verge
Google says Matter is still set to fix the biggest smart home frustrations
The Verge
10 min read · May 10th · Google explains why it’s all in on Matter, the first true smart home standard
Reader View · Shared by 11
Stacey Higginbotham
It's time the smart home got a do not disturb mode
Stacey Higginbotham
2 min read · Apr 11th · On our most recent IoT Podcast, Jonathan called in with an interesting smart home problem to solve. He’s looking for a button or some other simple device that, when pressed, will disable any smart…
Reader View · Shared by 12, including Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦
The Verge
Insteon’s troubles are a smart home tale as old as time
The Verge
6 min read · Apr 20th · More cloud carnage this month highlights just how much the smart home is in need of saving. Is Matter the answer?
Reader View · Shared by 10
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Forbes
Smart From The Start: ‘Smart Home’ Is Becoming ‘Sustainable Home’
Forbes
5 min read · 2021-11-24 · How smart is your “smart home” when it’s out of power? Increasingly, smart homes are homes that are sustainable ... and resilient.
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, John Koetsier, W. David Stephenson
The Independent
Google accidentally enables Home smart speakers to listen in to everyday house sounds
The Independent
2 min read · 2020-08-04 · Users have received notifications when their Google Home speakers hear smoke alarms or breaking glass
Reader View · Shared by 109, including Daniel Newman, Dave McClure, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ian M Calvert, zeynep tufekci
The Verge
Matter is coming to save the smart home
The Verge
~16 min read · 2021-12-14 · Here’s how Matter will make your smart home smarter.
Reader View · Shared by 25, including Marsha Collier, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR
The Guardian
Your 'smart home' is watching
The Guardian
3 min read · 2021-04-05 · Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Grzegorz Wapiński, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Fast Company
The smart home is flailing as a concept—because it sucks
Fast Company
4 min read · 2021-08-02 · The smart home was supposed to be the next big computing platform. Now it seems lost in a fog of frustration.
Reader View · Shared by 66, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bernhard Huessy, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷
flic.io
Flic: The Wireless Smart Button
flic.io
2 min read · From 2015 · Flic is a smart wireless button that can control your favorite smart function.
Reader View · Shared by 87, including Stowe Boyd, Patric Fornasier, Andrea Desiato, Marc Hofer, Myke Näf, Manuel Grenacher, Linus Basig, nuuk, DON’T PANIC, René Clausen Nielsen, Francis DB, Pizza 🍕, Chris Smith, Matthieu de Luze, Mo Schuster
Benedict Evans
Smart home, machine learning and discovery
Benedict Evans
4 min read · From 2019 · ‘Smart home’ today is in the same place as electric things in the home a generation or two ago: everyone will have some of these things, but we’re working out which makes sense. Everyone got a toaster…
Reader View · Shared by 44, including David Bauer, Howard Getson, Steven Sinofsky, 瑞拿頭
BretKinsella.eth (read Voicebot.ai)
More People are Choosing Smart Speakers to Listen to Audio Content While Stuck at Home: Report
BretKinsella.eth (read Voicebot.ai)
2 min read · From 2020 · Eric Hal Schwartz on May 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm A growing percentage of U.S. smart speaker owners are turning to their devices to listen for information and entertainment during the current COVID-19…
Reader View · Shared by 27, including Chris Messina, Carl Robinson 🎙️
blog.google
Developing a standard for the smart home industry
blog.google
1 min read · From 2019 · Google and other partners are developing a new, connectivity standard to increase compatibility across the smart home industry
Reader View · Shared by 42, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Esther Schindler, Stacey Higginbotham, Chris DiBona, Scott Jenson
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