smart home
5 stories and discussions about smart home, aggregated from every source we track.
The shutdown of June Oven is another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.
Smart Home Made Simple. ESPHome turns ESP32, ESP8266, and RP2040 microcontrollers into fully-featured smart home devices.
Apple’s long-awaited smart home hub, which we’ve been referring to as the HomePad, is set to launch on October 13,...
Apple's long-rumored smart home hub will reportedly be revealed on October 13th. Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman reports that the smart home device will be revealed alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device. All three products are set to showcase Siri AI, Apple's overhauled AI-powered assistant. The smart home hub, a new product category for Apple, will be the centerpiece. It will reportedly feature a 6-inch display which can be mounted on a wall or sit on a countertop. The hub is "about as thick as an iPhone," according to Gurman, and has bezels similar to older iPads. It sounds like the hub will look a little similar to Apple' … Read the full story at The Verge.
This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy . The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here . How it started A decade ago, a group of former Apple engineers built a beautiful smart oven. With a built-in scale, restaurant-grade heating elements, a camera, and the intelligence to recognize a chicken breast and cook it perfectly, the June Oven set the standard for smart cooking appliances. At $1,495, it was absurdly expensive, but it quickly grew a smal … Read the full story at The Verge.