The best home isn’t just cozy, it makes your life easier with connectivity and efficiency. Learn about the best smart home devices to make your home work for you. Picking the right devices can be complicated. You might just need one gadget to address a particular…

The smart building has become one of the fastest-growing technologies in the proptech industry. It is estimated that the global market for the Internet of Things in Buildings (BIoT) will rise from $22.93Bn in 2014 to over $85Bn in 2020. The major factor driving smart building market…

OnePlus has built a reputation for offering premium phones without a premium price to match — we called the OnePlus 6T “the most affordable flagship you can get.” But the company’s first 5G phone, announced this morning at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, won’t…

Aside from a sign and some carnival-style light bulbs, the exterior of the self-styled “micro-amusement park” doesn’t seem all that remarkable. It’s a brick-faced building, a few blocks from a Blue Bottle Coffee, and across the street from a popular LA filming location that’s popped up…

Pujiang Pu is a smiley, medium-built man in his mid-forties with stylish glasses, a bling gold watch, and a red JD lanyard around his neck. Along with many of the 150,000 employees of JD.com – a city-size e-commerce store sometimes referred to as the Amazon of…

Walmart has acquired a small virtual reality shop, called Spatialand, to be the centerpiece of VR efforts that the company hopes will someday transform the shopping experience across the company’s different websites and stores. Spatialand makes software tools that let creators transform existing content into immersive,…

The HomePod, whether Apple likes it or not, is the company’s answer to the wildly popular Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers. Apple is very insistent that the $349 HomePod has been in development for the past six years and that it’s entirely focused on…

Recent press around Nest has mostly revolved around its corporate changes, from former CEO Tony Fadell stepping down to shutting down Revolv, a smart home network it acquired. Finally, we have some news regarding product. Nest has announced a new outdoor version of its security camera that’s…

Apple just gave everyone the opportunity to try out its public beta of iOS 10, and it’s a big update to its mobile operating system. There are plenty of new features, some weird quirks, and bugs here or there (it is beta after all). But after giving it a test drive,…

The Nest Learning Thermostat does what a thermostat is supposed to do, turning your heat and AC on and off when you need it. And because it’s a learning thermostat, it does so without manual programming. This beautifully designed object has enough built-in smarts to plausibly…