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May 13, 2026
Alexa is moving into Amazon.com
Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be ...
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May 12, 2026
These new Roombas are smaller and cheaper
iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improv...
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May 11, 2026
Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid
Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends sign...
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May 8, 2026
Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, ...
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May 7, 2026
Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy
Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts last week. They were assembled for Dreame's launch eve...
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May 6, 2026
Blink bumps its budget buzzer to 2K
Amazon-owned Blink has two new video doorbells, the Blink Wired Doorbell 2K+ and the Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+. The wired doorbell is listed at $49.99 on Amazon, but a blog post from the company s...
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May 4, 2026
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion
Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. Th...
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May 4, 2026
Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter
Homebridge, the popular software solution that allows you to integrate non-HomeKit devices like Ring cameras into Apple Home, is adding support for the Matter smart home standard. Today, May 4th, H...
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May 1, 2026
Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum
Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum an...
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May 1, 2026
Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum
I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle d...
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April 22, 2026
Will a new CEO realize Apple’s smart home potential?
It took Tim Cook years to launch Apple into major new hardware categories, such as the smartwatch. But John Ternus could start his tenure right away with an ambitious new project: smart home hardwa...
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April 22, 2026
First vacuums — then the world
Many startups spend years trying to become a household name. Others just spend $10 million on a Super Bowl ad. That's Dreame's bet. The little-known Chinese robot vacuum company has grand ambitions...
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April 15, 2026
Ikea’s smart donut lamp is a sweet treat
Ikea's popular Varmblixt lamp just got a smart home glow-up. The delightfully bulbous light now features color-changing, dimming, and smart home control. I tested the new smart lamp in my daughter'...
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March 25, 2026
Ring finally brings 4K video to its battery-powered doorbell camera
Ring has announced its first battery-powered 2K and 4K doorbell cameras. The Ring Battery Video Doorbell Pro 2nd Gen ($249.99) offers 4K video resolution and 10x digital zoom, while the Battery Vid...
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March 25, 2026
Reolink’s first solar-powered floodlight camera offers wire-free home security
Reolink's new solar-powered floodlight camera is now available. Announced earlier this year at CES, the Solar Floodlight Camera costs $109.99 but is on sale for $87.99 for the launch. Most floodlig...
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March 24, 2026
Nuki adds Apple Home Key to its smart lock
This week, my top pick for a retrofit smart lock launched the first Aliro-compatible keypad. The Nuki Keypad 2 NFC ($179) brings tap-to-unlock via Apple's Home Key and Samsung's Digital Home Key to...
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March 18, 2026
My favorite robot vacuum now supports Matter
Matic, my current top pick for the best robot vacuum, just got a big update. The unique-looking floor bot now works with Google Home and Apple Home, with support coming through the smart home stand...
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March 17, 2026
Ikea tried to build a smart home for everyone — here’s why it’s not working yet
Ikea's new Matter-over-Thread products were supposed to prove that the smart home could be cheap, accessible, and reliable. The highly anticipated line - which includes sensors, remotes, smart plug...
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March 17, 2026
Hands on with Aqara’s new Matter-compatible camera
The first Matter camera is here - sort of. Camera support came to the smart home standard last year, and Aqara's Camera Hub G350 is the first to support it. The G350, which was announced at CES, la...
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March 11, 2026
How to ditch Ring’s surveillance network
Recently, Ring ran a Super Bowl ad for its Search Party feature showing how it uses AI to scan footage from Ring cameras and video doorbells to help find lost dogs. It sounds neighborly — until you...
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March 3, 2026
Shark’s latest robot vacuum hunts stains with UV light
The Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal is SharkNinja's latest robot vacuum and mop. A flagship model with a multifunctional dock that empties the dustbin and refills and washes its mop, the Reveal's signa...
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February 26, 2026
The smart lock standard that could replace your keys is finally here
Aliro has officially arrived. The smart lock standard, first announced in 2023, finally has a 1.0 spec, meaning companies can now get hardware certified and roll out support. Aliro is an open stand...
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February 19, 2026
After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an in...
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February 18, 2026
Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows
A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just looking for lost dogs. The outlet reports the email, sent ...
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February 14, 2026
Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem
The most striking thing about Ring's statement that it had parted ways with Flock Safety is what the home security company didn't say. There was no mention of the public backlash around ties to ICE...
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