The smart home could worsen domestic abuse. But the same technology may also make us safer
Can we use smart home data to better identify and report abusers, while protecting victims of domestic and family violence?
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Your smart home is trying to reprogram you
But don't worry, it's failing. For now.
Amazon Echo will bring genuinely helpful AI into our homes much sooner than expected
Amazon's voice-controlled personal assistant device is coming to the UK and bringing smart homes with it.
The hidden energy cost of smart homes
Our homes are getting smarter and more connected – but at what cost to energy use?
Security risks in the age of smart homes
Smart home technologies have some major security weaknesses that better design and programming could solve.
To get young people out of nursing homes, we need to back up the NDIS with housing – here’s how
Thousands of young people with disability who end up in nursing homes lead lives of isolation and boredom. Better and smarter housing finance and support options are at last being developed.
Your devices’ latest feature? They can spy on your every move
Bad guys or law enforcement could hack into our networked gadgets to spy on everything we do – and it's not clear how a laptop's video camera or an Amazon Echo fits within wiretapping laws.
Smart homes need to start treating their inhabitants better
Nest's decision to render its Revolv hub products useless shows how far the home automation industry has to go.
Raspberry Pi 3 shows it’s possible to pack even more punch into a tiny package
With the addition of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth the new Raspberry Pi is even easier to put to good use.
Smart homes promise to end the ‘wife drought’, but where do women fit in?
Who is the smart home for and why has it not taken off as expected? Perhaps because it has been primarily envisioned by and for men.
Amazon Dash is a first step towards an internet of things that is actually useful
Amazon Dash can ensure you never run out of soap, washing powder or razors again. But it can't push the button for you.
Smart homes: consumers favor home security over efficiency
The message from the yearly CES consumer electronics extravaganza was clear: the list of gadgets that can be connected to the “internet of things” is growing rapidly. These smart-home technologies have…
Google’s smart-home strategy starts with smoke alarms
Google is set to pay £1.9 billion (US$3.2 billion) for Nest, a manufacturer of “smart” thermostats and smoke alarms. Though Nest is still relatively unknown, the buzz around smart homes – where all manner…
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