Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later
Amazon's Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 launch this week, here are my first impressions — | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, Samsung, and LG, and startups like Doma, are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive
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The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to lose its Bluetooth dependency
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Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa+, up from “hundreds of thousands” in May, and plans to “make it even more broadly available over the summer”
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Ring stops selling the Ring Car Cam, its first car dashboard camera, blaming “ongoing delays”, after launching the product in January 2023
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Ring stops selling the Ring Car Cam, its first car dashboard camera, blaming “ongoing delays”, after launching the product in January 2023
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How Matter broke its promise of an easier smart home experience: the standard suffers from poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress
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Ring says new Ring Alarm users will have to pay for a Ring Protect subscription starting at $3.99 per month to use existing free features, starting on March 29
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An overview of the adoption of Matter, the new open-source smart home interoperability standard, across the devices and controllers on display at CES 2023
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge : Tweets: @jp2e Tweets: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / @jp2e : With dozens of new product announcements and plenty of support from all the smart home companies, Matter ...
Ikea Dirigera review: the Matter-ready smart home hub is easy to use and works well, but is expensive, lacks a migration tool from Trådfri, and is simplistic
Thomas Ricker / The Verge : Tweets: @jp2e Tweets: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / @jp2e : Ikea's new smart home is here. Read @trixxy's exclusive review of the Dirigera hub, which thankfully ditches the la...