Recycling Machine for Your Home (Lasso Loop First Look)
The Lasso by Lasso Loop is a home recycling machine that detects, cleans and breaks down materials you'd normally throw in your recycling bin so they can be more easily reused.
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Posts tagged "smart home"
Smart Home Alone: Keep your home secure when you’re not there
Smart Home Alone: Keep your home secure when you're not there
The notorious Dry Bandits are targeting the CNET Smart Home. Fortunately, the connected tech is set to scare them away.
Here's a fun look at how to use ...
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Nest Cam Indoor review: Killed by cool-down times
Nest Cam Indoor review: Killed by cool-down times
The Nest Cam Indoor sports a fancy look and a nice list of features, but it lacks in value and misses on some performance tests.
We compare the specs and price of ...
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Previewing Facebook’s two new Portals, Portal Go and Portal Plus
Previewing Facebook's two new Portals, Portal Go and Portal Plus
Facebook is refreshing its Portal smart display lineup as well as launching a few new features, such as a Household mode and an expanded Watch Together feature.
We preview the ...
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Ring 4 vs Nest Doorbell Battery: The battle for best wireless video doorbell
Ring 4 vs Nest Doorbell Battery: The battle for best wireless video doorbell
Both of these battery powered video doorbells offer a solid list of features, but we put them to the test to see which one reigns supreme.
We’ve pitted ...
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Nest Doorbell with Battery: How to customize it
Nest Doorbell with Battery: How to customize it
The Nest Doorbell with battery can filter out the notifications you don’t care about. It can recognize people, pets, cars and packages, and you can tailor the recording and notifications settings for ...
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Nest Doorbell (battery) review: Google outsmarts the competition — mostly
Nest Doorbell (battery) review: Google outsmarts the competition -- mostly
Google's newest video doorbell boasts great value and serious smarts. Plus, it dodges most of the criticisms that take down other doorbell cams on the market.
But a $6 monthly ...
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How to reset your smart home devices and start over with Alexa
How to reset your smart home devices and start over with Alexa
If you’ve added, renamed, or moved around a bunch of devices through your Alexa account over the years, things might be a little glitchy. We’ll show you how to fix ...
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Amazon Sidewalk: Everything we know (and don’t know)
Amazon Sidewalk: Everything we know (and don’t know)
Amazon now lets other people’s devices in your neighborhood connect to the cloud through your Echo and Ring devices, using a tiny bit of your bandwidth. That might help keep your devices ...
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Apple, Amazon and Google, oh my! Why the Matter Protocol Matters
Apple, Amazon and Google, oh my! Why the Matter Protocol Matters
A high-powered tech collaboration, the Matter Protocol already has Apple, Amazon and Google working together to make the connected home more seamless. If it lives up to its promise, ...
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