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Roomba brews its own bleach 🧪, Matter teaches thermostats to negotiate 🌡️, your dog gets Starlink 🐕
July 10, 2026July 7, 2026Apple Home gets pricier 🍎💸, Hue bricks its own hubs 💡🧱, nugget ice on tap 🧊
June 26, 2026Meta's $299 AI glasses 👓, SmartThings goes paid 💸, an $80 body scanner ⚖️
June 19, 2026Tap-to-pair lands in Matter 1.6 📲, Schlage's walk-up UWB lock 🔑, a face-scanning cat feeder 🐱
June 12, 2026Europe locked out of Siri 🇪🇺🚫, Tapo bulbs leak secrets 🔓, a $1,500/yr coffee machine ☕💸
June 5, 2026Matter sensors learn to read the room 👁️, Ring's face-scan lawsuit ⚖️, a stair-climbing vacuum 🪜🤖
May 29, 2026Gemini turns cameras into triggers 📷, SwitchBot swallows Nanoleaf 🌈🤝, a bird that drops dead 🐦
May 22, 2026Google wants Gemini everywhere 🤖, Hue splits in two 💡, robot dog betrays its chickens 🐕🐔
May 15, 2026Smart glasses go dark 👓💀, Hue paints World Cup goals ⚽💡, Matter talks to the grid ⚡
May 8, 2026Pool as a thermal battery 🏊🔋, a robot that climbs your windows 🪟🤖, e-ink fridge magnets 🧲
April 17, 2026Ecovacs sprays before it mops 💦, Roborock's best robovac yet 🏆, a lamp that tracks your sleep 💤
April 10, 2026DJI vacuums with drone tech 🤖, Russia inside your router 🔓, a plant survived 2 months alone 🌱
April 3, 2026HA 2026.4 revives IR remotes 📡, smart BBQ smokes while you sleep 🔥, Roku bricks antenna TV 📺
March 27, 2026SmartThings in your car 🚗, tap-to-unlock your front door 🔐, retirees are vibe-coding home tech 👴
March 20, 2026First Matter security camera 📹, smart glasses for dementia 👓, build your kid an AI teddy bear 🧸
March 13, 2026The tiniest Roomba ever 🤖, Alexa gets sassy 🤬, Zigbee goes long-range 📡
March 6, 2026Who's still resisting Matter? 🧩, ADT bets $105M on through-wall radar 📡, DOOM meets HA 🎮
February 27, 2026Aliro kills the key 🔑, LoRa-powered home from a war zone 📡, OpenAI builds a smart speaker 🔊👁️
February 20, 2026Ring wants to "zero out crime" 👁️, Shelly repels mosquitoes 🦟, baby monitoring via sock 🧒🧦
February 13, 2026FBI recovers "deleted" Nest video 🔍, Star Trek smart home panel 🖖, eero's internet backup plan 📶
February 6, 2026IKEA Thread troubles 😬, mold-predicting automations 🍄, community-powered device database 📈
January 30, 2026Goodbye Wemo cloud 👋, vibe-coding HA with Claude 🤖, battery-free switches ⚡
January 23, 2026SwitchBot's HA-in-a-box 📦, Hue rethinks automations 💡, police want your footage 👮
January 16, 2026Apple + Google for Siri 🍎🤝, light-powered locks 💡, Neato's cloud death ☁️💀
January 9, 2026Walking vacuums 🦿, smart mowers 🌱, the new Aliro lock standard 🔐
December 26, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #12
December 19, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #11
December 12, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #10
December 5, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #9
November 28, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #8
November 21, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #7
November 14, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #6
November 7, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #5
October 31, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #4
October 24, 2025This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #3
October 17, 2025Smart Home Weekly #2
October 10, 2025Smart Home Weekly #1
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