• ZDNet

    The Echo Show 8 is the best smart display and speaker combo and it's only $105

    Amazon's third-generation Echo Show features faster speeds and an ambient-powered display to streamline your smart home experience at 30% off with this limited time deal.

  • Best smart home deal: Get $30 off the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium at Amazon

    As of April 18, get the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium for just $219.99. That's $30 off its normal price of $249.99 and a discount of 12%.

  • Best speaker deal: Get the Ultimate Ears Epicboom portable speaker for $299.99

    As of April 9, get the Ultimate Ears Epicboom portable speaker for $299.99. That's $50 off its normal price and a discount of 14%.

  • Speaker Johnson Unveils Scheme to Bring Ukraine Vote to House Floor Speaker Johnson Unveils Scheme to Bring Ukraine Vote to House Floor

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a gambit to burst a legislative logjam and unleash a four-vote flood including a standalone vote on tens of billions in American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.

  • Making microbots smart

    In the not-so-distant future, the surgeons who treat our ailments might be tiny machines that swim through our bodies, tracking down cancerous tumors or clearing clots from even the smallest arteries. If this sounds like science fiction, you’re not wrong: Movies like Fantastic Voyage and Innerspace have long played with the concept of shrinking machines down to the size of a single cell — yet over the past few years, advances in robotics and materials science have brought the idea ever closer to...

  • Are smart cities a wise idea?

    The development of a Smart City in Toronto, in partnership with Google, should be the realization of the tech utopia we’d been imagining. Complete with robots, autonomous cars, and the latest tech integrated into the city itself, it seems as if the residents are the lucky beneficiaries of Life 2.0. When the project was announced with great excitement in 2017, it seemed as if Canadians would be the luckiest, most advanced citizens on the planet. Which is why the vehement civic resistance to the...

    • CNET

    Best Smart Scale for 2024

    Looking for a new scale? We’ve put the best smart scales on the market to the test and rounded up all of our favorite picks.

  • The best smart plugs in 2024

    I’ve always preferred the glow of multiple lamps to the onslaught of overhead lights, but clicking them off one by one can get tedious. With smart plugs, any lamp can be controlled with a phone, your voice or even a programmed schedule or routine so you don’t have to think about them at all. Smart plugs also work with some appliances like basic coffee makers, fans, humidifiers and other items that have a simple on/off switch. Smart plugs all look pretty similar — a white rectangle with rounded...

  • How millions of us could be being overcharged by our smart meters

    Smart energy meters allow utility firms to 'overcharge' more than £50 a year on top of the gas and electricity you use, we can reveal.

  • 6 signs it's time to upgrade your speaker

    Speakers don't last forever, so when is it time to upgrade?

  • A vacant chair would be better than this weak speaker

    The adage “something is better than nothing” most certainly does not apply to speaker of the House with the current crop of Republican congressmen. At this point, it would be better for Republicans to vacate the chair, even if means a deadlocked conference and the party cannot agree upon a speaker. Paralyzing the House and preventing it from passing more odious legislation is probably the most auspicious outcome we can hope for now. When Republicans took over the House in January 2023, they...

    • CNN

    Republicans defy their own speaker over FISA bill

    Jamil Jaffer joins The Lead