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. · Shared by 491, including Liv 😷, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Tauno, Ron McIntyre, Real Marsha Wright®
WIRED
Controlling My Family’s Smart Home Is Driving Us Mad
WIRED
2 min read · Jun 11th · The smart home was supposed to make our lives easier, but confusing controls and too many apps are frustrating. There must be a better way. · Shared by 133, including Tactical Tech, Chris Isak , Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Alicia Cocchi
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… · 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, Anil, 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? · 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? · 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 Anil, 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. · Shared by 141, including Johannes Dornisch, Peter Schmidhuber, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Sachin Rekhi, Kunal Bhatia (✈️ NYC till 9/23), 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… · Shared by 50, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Eric Seufert, Yvette Dubel, Niklaus Gerber, Bernhard Huessy, Oliver Raduner
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 · Shared by 25, including Grzegorz Wapiński, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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The Verge
Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home
The Verge
5 min read · Aug 5th · With more maps comes more context for Amazon’s smart home ambitions. · Shared by 72, including Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻
Esquire
10 Best Smart Home Devices 2022 - Smart Home Gadgets, Appliances
Esquire
3 min read · Aug 24th · We'll gladly give away our data to these. · Shared by 33
Stacey Higginbotham
Why the once exciting smart home is now boring
Stacey Higginbotham
4 min read · Aug 24th · During a long trail walk this weekend, my wife asked me, “What’s new in the smart home these days?” I took at least 20 steps in silence before answering her, saying, “Not much, to be honest. It’s kind… · Shared by 16, including Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦
The New York Times
5 Simple Ways to Protect Your Smart Home From Being Hacked
The New York Times
4 min read · Aug 22nd · Smart-home devices are easier than ever to set up and use, but you should take a couple extra minutes to ensure they’re properly secured. Here’s how. · Shared by 10
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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. · Shared by 38, including Kaspar Manz
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. · Shared by 28, including Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, John Koetsier, W. David Stephenson
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. · Shared by 66, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bernhard Huessy, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷
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… · Shared by 44, including Howard Getson, 瑞拿頭, Steven Sinofsky
The New York Times
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2018 · Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control. · Shared by 175, including Jochen Burkhard, Daniel Boos, Javi Cantón, Christian P. Stobbe, Ⓓarío Macchi, Dana DiTomaso, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Thomas Power, Bernhard Huessy, Merkstatt, Yvette Dubel, Inurfacesuka Дедечка, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦
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. · Shared by 87, including Stowe Boyd, Francis DB, Andrea Desiato, Marc Hofer, Myke Näf, Manuel Grenacher, Linus Basig, nuuk, DON’T PANIC, René Clausen Nielsen, Patric Fornasier, pizza.fig 🍕, Chris Smith, Matthieu de Luze, Mo Schuster
The Independent
Google accidentally enables Home smart speakers to listen in to everyday house sounds
The Independent
2 min read · From 2020 · Users have received notifications when their Google Home speakers hear smoke alarms or breaking glass · Shared by 108, including Daniel Newman #SixFiveSummit #DF22, Dave McClure, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ian M Calvert, zeynep tufekci
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 · Shared by 42, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Esther Schindler, Stacey Higginbotham, Chris DiBona, Scott Jenson
The Verge
Ikea 2.0
The Verge
20+ min read · From 2019 · But it’s called Home Smart because the home comes first. · Shared by 84, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Glyn Britton, Brian Solis
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