Smart garage door controller is no longer smart(theverge.com)

50 points by balloob 3 years ago | 31 comments

Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout(theverge.com)

112 points by bgc 3 years ago | 73 comments

Microsoft Has a Surface Laptop 'Smurface Edition' for Smurfs Fans(theverge.com)

4 points by zdw 1 year ago | 2 comments

Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024(theverge.com)

71 points by turtlegrids 3 years ago | 37 comments

San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep homeless from using it(theverge.com)

54 points by rntn 3 years ago | 41 comments

The Newark airport crisis(theverge.com)

103 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 83 comments

Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions(wsj.com)

428 points by marban 2 years ago | 770 comments

WSJ article on Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices losing billions despite being in millions of homes; the page loaded a captcha bot check instead.

IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes(theverge.com)

318 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 202 comments

The Verge article reporting Ikea's plan to launch over 20 Matter-over-Thread smart home devices, shifting away from Zigbee to simplify and cheapen its smart home line.

The midwit home(dynomight.substack.com)

367 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 254 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay arguing for a simpler smart home with less automation, after the frustrations of protocols like Z-Wave, Zigbee and MQTT.

Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats(makeuseof.com)

42 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 32 comments

MakeUseOf article explaining how Google ended cloud support for first- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats, leaving them as manual thermostats, and mentions an open-source fix.

I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again(androidauthority.com)

389 points by Corrado 3 years ago | 273 comments

Android Authority opinion piece by Dhruv Bhutani arguing against investing in Google's smart home ecosystem due to its uncertain product future.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 16 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.