Buying Guides
How to Choose Mesh Wi-Fi for a Smart Home Full of Devices
Your phone shows full bars, yet the smart plug in the garage keeps going offline and the doorbell takes four seconds to wake...
Home security and privacy writer
Ada installed physical security systems professionally for six years before switching to writing about the smart version of the same job. She reads a device's privacy policy before she reads its feature list.
Buying Guides
Your phone shows full bars, yet the smart plug in the garage keeps going offline and the doorbell takes four seconds to wake...
Plugs and Switches
Every winter someone asks me the same question, usually with a photo attached: a portable space heater plugged into a cheap...
Voice Assistants
A client asked me to look at her Echo after her teenage son played back a clip of her arguing on the phone.
Games
A homeowner sent me a clip from her doorbell camera last autumn. A man walks up her path, takes a parcel and leaves.
Games
A game minimap is a small miracle of information design.
Games
Share a game console and the first thing you set up is separate save slots, so one person's progress never overwrites...