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Over the summer, smart lock maker August announced its first integration with Amazon’s smart home assistant Alexa. It was pretty basic – letting users check whether unit was locked or not. Naturally, people wanted to know, for better or worse, when they’d actually be able to unlock their front door with the sound of their

Last September, Marcus, a 31-year-old resident of Springfield, Missouri, discovered a flaw with Apple’s HomeKit, the iPhone maker’s program for hooking up smart home gadgets in iOS. Marcus had outfitted his entire house with an array of HomeKit-approved lights, thermostats and door lock. The setup was all controllable with an iPad sitting in his living room that he could talk to

SAN FRANCISCO — In a world where data drives business, political and military decisions, falsified data has become a weapon, Intel Security Group head Christopher Young told the RSA Conference here this week. Credit: Jamesteohart/Shutterstock More Credit: Jamesteohart/Shutterstock “Data drives decisions, but decisions drive world history.  Stolen and manipulated data was used to hijack our

Tyler Lizenby/CNET Google Home may be the most direct competitor to the Amazon Alexa speakers, but there are still quite a few things it can’t do, including multi-user support, sleep timers and taking notes. Luckily there’s a fix for some of those missing functions. Google Home supports IFTTT, or “If This Then That.” It’s a

The idea of living a fully connected life in a fully connected world is not a new concept and brands are forever trying to be the first one through the door with their latest connected devices. Whether that’s a virtual assistant called Alexa Echo-ing through your home, a self-driving vehicle from Tesla (not that Nikola