Let’s face it: We all want a smarter, more efficient home that can do the hard work for us — at our command — even while we’re away. Here are five new smart home products will get us a lot closer to that technological dream in 2017: The smart air conditioner Noria is a new product …
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A smart home gadget that cannot be set up in 20 minutes will be returned to the store. This guest post is by Neil Lakomiak, business development manager, UL Building and Life Safety Technologies. It has been lightly edited and reposted from the “Inside UL” blog by permission. Connected-home devices are projected to grow at …
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Even in this technological age (or maybe because of it), The Flintstones remains a powerful piece of pop culture. Far from the animated Honeymooners rip-off, it began as the chronicles of the modern stone-age family is the swinging sixties grandfather of all adult cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy. It’s a part of the …
Welcome to Home Deals, where we pick out the best deals on things you need for your home, garden and beyond. Like our cousin, the Cheapskate, we’ll give you a regular selection of smoking-hot deals, but for house and home. This time, we look for smart deals on smart locks. Most people’s first experience of …
A version of this essay was originally published at Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry. A great deal has been written recently on the growing importance of voice-driven computing devices, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home and others like them. At the same time, there’s been a …
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The potential of IoT is clear, but it needs to be proven over the next year (Photo by: Shutterstock) For the last few years, technology vendors have been creating a buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT), and while IT decision makers may have taken notice, it has been tough to distinguish whether IoT is worthy of all …
Insurers and consumers can benefit in multiple ways as more smart appliances and devices move into homes, according to Joe Wodark, director of product development for Verisk Insurance Solutions. First notice of loss, settlement and subrogation are all claims processes that are expected to improve as a result of the data derived from smart devices. …
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Toward the end of 2016, ESET senior security researcher Stephen Cobb expressed concern about the possible mingling of three different types of system abuse: holding computer systems and data files hostage (ransomware); denying access to data and systems (DDoS); and infecting the Internet of Things (IoT) with malicious code. He hypothesized that in 2017 we …
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“It can be overwhelming to think of the Industrial Internet of Things as an all-encompassing solution,” says Greg Giles, executive director of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Argonaut for RedViking. “So what a lot of our customers do is find a system that’s going to provide them with new functionality to solve one particular problem—perhaps …
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Legislative Activity House Passes Seven Communications Bills On January 23, the U.S. House of Representatives (House) passed the following seven communications bills: H.R.290, the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2017: a bill sponsored by House Energy & Commerce Committee (House Commerce Committee) Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) that is designed to make the Federal …
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