How does the smart home of your dreams look? Maybe your front door automatically unlocks when it detects your phone is nearby, disabling the home alarm system and triggering the lights and air ...

So you want a smart home. Great! But where do you start? With so many platforms, assistants, hubs and protocols out there, it can get confusing quickly. Here's what you need to know if you're ready to ...

Google's Nest Hub, formally known as the Home Hub, is one of the many smart hub devices you can use to control the various accessories in your home. Powered by Google Assistant, the Nest Hub can turn ...

If you're looking to modernize your abode with app-enabled lights or accessories, do you need to incorporate a smart home hub ...

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With the Nest Hub Max, Google’s finally created the smart display it should have built in the first place. Announced Tuesday at the company’s Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, ...

Beauty retailer Sephora partnered with Google on voice-enabled makeup tutorials that viewers can watch on the search giant's smart display. The Google Home Hub now has Sephora's entire catalog of ...

SmartThings remains the easiest path to a DIY smart home, but there’s little to be gained—and a lot of pain to endured—from upgrading from the second-generation hub. Samsung SmartThings has been the ...

Ikea announced a new smart hub and app that will be coming out later this year. The hub is called Dirigera and will be Matter-ready. The hub will be accompanied by the release of the company’s new ...

Ikea is bringing its Dirigera smart home hub to the United States on November 1, a hub that will support Matter and be compatible with Apple's Homekit smart home platform. Starting from November 1, ...