If you're spending more time fixing your smart home than using it, it could be time to stop relying on the cloud. Here's how.

Mashable's Readers' Choice: Smartest Home survey ran from Nov. 16, 2024, to March 20, 2025. Stay tuned for our next survey.

In 2019, I thought I had my ideal smart home and it all relied on Google Home. Then it all started failing piece by piece.

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Sanuj is a tech enthusiast with a passion for exploring smartphones, tablets, and smart wearables. He started his tech journey with a Lumia smartphone, diving into Windows Phone. Later, he switched to ...

The Matter standard has received the 1.4.1 update, which includes a series of improvements and optimizations specifically designed to eliminate most of the pitfalls you encounter when setting up ...

Matter 1.4.1 implements a handful of new features to ease new-device setup. Multi-device QR code setup will let you add a whole box of smart home devices while only scanning a single QR code. NFC ...

When my family moved homes, we lost our smart home set up, and my family was surprisingly lost without it. Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and ...

A couple of trends have the potential to bring coherence and more mainstream appeal to the smart home technology sector.

If your living room still relies on overhead lighting or a random floor lamp, it’s time to upgrade. The Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite is currently available for $70 on Amazon -- that’s 22% off its usual ...