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 announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025
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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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Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage
https://www.theverge.com/... The security issue is being blamed on “a third-party caching library,” but the company acknowledges that it let customers down @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family : Wyze show...
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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Google says its Nest Renew service will merge with the OhmConnect energy management platform to form the company Renew Home, with $100M from Alphabet-backed SIP
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