Voice control is no longer a party trick; it is the glue that holds a modern smart home together. With the right Alexa phrases, lights, locks, cameras and climate systems respond in seconds, often ...

From its expansive ecosystem to the dreaded ‘by the way...’ pitch, here’s everything you should know before Amazon Alexa controls your smart home. From its expansive ecosystem to the dreaded ‘by the ...

Hagop is passionate about smart home products, especially when it comes to making life easier. He's always eager to try out new technologies to make life easier, in terms of cleaning, automation, and ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

When Amazon first released the Echo with its voice assistant Alexa, many consumers thought “Yeah, this is cool, but do I really need this?” While consumers can connect to their Echo via bluetooth, add ...

Look, I'm an Apple guy through and through. I've had an iPhone for nearly 10 years. I write on a MacBook, my iPad lives on the couch, and yeah, I wear an Apple Watch daily. HomeKit should've been the ...

When we brought our first Amazon Alexa device into our home almost 10 years ago, we were rightly concerned about having a device listening to everything that went on in our family room. We eventually ...

The first step toward building a smart home is deciding which smart home platform to use. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are two of the best on the market, offering support for hundreds of third-party ...

Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more than ...

Smart speakers can be a useful companion in your home. The voice-controlled devices can answer random questions, set multiple timers as you cook and play your favorite podcasts. Some even have ...

Amazon today announced a number of new smart features designed to allow Alexa device owners to better control their smart home — some of which don’t even require the Alexa device owner to interact ...