ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon made the Smart Dimmer Switch available for pre-order.This switch is battery-powered with four ...

If you want to convert your existing home into a smart home, you no longer have to spend hundreds of dollars. Here are some ...

Alexa Plus hasn’t changed anything for me; it’s just made my smart home (mostly) easier to manage. It still feels like pieces and parts, not a cohesive whole being run by an intelligent machine. Many ...

The new AI-powered capabilities primarily focus on a smart home assistant that can understand and use natural language, as well as comprehend, generate, and summarize descriptions of events within and ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this column incorrectly attributed the source of the generative AI language in Alexa, which is based on a custom language model created by Amazon.

Controlling your Nest thermostat with Alexa voice commands offers a seamless way to manage your home's temperature without needing to physically interact with the thermostat or your phone. This ...

If you want to get the Kasa Smart Light Bulb for just $9.99 (normally $17), all you have to do is go and grab it on Amazon.

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 ...

Unlike Philips Hue, the market leader that still keeps things fairly traditional, Govee has launched some pretty outrageous ...

No disrespect to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, but voice control still has its quirks and sometimes it’s easier to control your various smart home devices using your PC instead. But the degree to ...

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 ...