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What Online Game Latency Teaches About Local Versus Cloud Smart Home Control
Gamers talk about ping constantly because a delay of even a fraction of a second between pressing a button and seeing a result...
A client asked me to look at her Echo after her teenage son played back a clip of her arguing on the phone. He had found it in the Alexa app, under voice history, timestamped 10:41 on a Thursday night. Nobody had said the wake word.
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Gamers talk about ping constantly because a delay of even a fraction of a second between pressing a button and seeing a result...
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Serious players bind their most used actions to single keys because reaching through menus mid game is slow and costly.
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A homeowner sent me a clip from her doorbell camera last autumn. A man walks up her path, takes a parcel and leaves.
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My basement dehumidifier switched itself on and off 47 times on one damp Tuesday in March.
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Ask a smart home owner what they fear and it is rarely a hacker.
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A game minimap is a small miracle of information design.
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.