Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very much more about following ...

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A $12 power meter helped me test which electronics in my home were the biggest energy vampires. The result caught me off guard.

Olimex HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...

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Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

Floridians already live with the most volatile home-insurance market in the country. Every year, families open renewal notices with a kind of dread that used to be reserved for hurricane season.

Xiaomi has quietly lifted the lid on its latest manufacturing project — a highly automated smart home appliance factory designed to run with very little human involvement. The facility was showcased ...

We often have a way of taking our home appliances for granted. They're just a plug into the wall or strip and play. Though the paperwork is there for an important reason, we will often consign it to a ...

A previous version of this story misstated the Johnson’s names. When Andrea and Michael Johnson started looking at homes to buy in Milwaukee, the last thing they expected was to get pushback from ...

Samsung will launch new home appliances powered by Gemini at CES 2026. The AI chatbot is coming to Samsung’s new Family Hub refrigerator to offer users a more convenient and personalized experience.