Amazon Alexa is flexible and compatible with many smart home devices but can be clunky and has no native smartphone support.

I've been covering technology for five decades and even I can't handle smart home setups – and that's a big problem.

There are four main smart home platforms: Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s HomeKit, Google Home and Samsung SmartThings and all work with devices such as smart lights and plugs. But which is the best smart ...

Google Home, Google's smart home platform, is relatively static at the moment. While millions of people use it, and there are ...

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 ...

Sometimes a gadget like Alexa or Google Home is a solution looking for a problem. Then the problem you’ve been looking for hits you square in the face. I’ve confessed before that I have an ...

The best smart plugs do operate a little differently from each other, particularly when it comes to compatibility with Alexa, Google, HomeKit, Matter and other smart home standards, and you'll ...

Today we're going to look at Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple HomeKit, focusing on what works best for different ...

In essence, the project uses a little speaker that generates white noise that is stopped by a wake word that then allows your Alexa or Google Home command to be heard. So if someone was listening ...

check out how to start a smart home with Google Assistant and how to start a smart home with Alexa. There are many things to consider when adopting a voice assistant but these are the key factors ...

More broadly, Matter 1.4 bakes a lot of timing, energy cost, and other automation triggers into the spec, which—again, when ...

Best multi-smart plug The Meross Smart Power Strip (buy now) grants smart powers to more than one item. This is one clever power strip, with support for multiple gadgets, USB charging ports, and ...