Clayton Moore
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Author/Co-Author of 345 articles
Clayton Moore’s interest in technology is deeply rooted in the work of writers like Warren Ellis, Cory Doctorow and Neal Stephenson, which can occasionally be frightening. When not writing about technology or business, he’s off profiling people like Valerie Plame Wilson, David Byrne, and Neil Gaiman, among many others.
Amazon Alexa’s Guard is a new security feature to keep your smart home safe
Smart home security is a lucrative market but Amazon is getting ahead of the competition with its rollout of Alexa Guard, a new set of smart home security features enabled by the Alexa digital assistant that allows the speaker to monitor for intrusions or fires, control smart home lighting, and more.
iRobot brings its Roomba tech to the backyard with the Terra autonomous mower
iRobot is already home to a bunch of bestselling smart home devices, notably its Roomba robot vacuum, and now the smart device maker is heading outside the home by releasing a new robot lawnmower called Terra, which will use Roomba's mapping technology and a new wireless communications system.
Abode Systems upgrades its smart home gateway with new chip and Z-Wave Plus
Palo Alto-based Abode Systems announced that it's releasing the next generation of its smart home gateway in 2019, both as a stand-alone product and as part of its popular smart home security kit. The new version will include both 4G cellular backup and enhanced Z-Wave support.
The Google Home Hub smart display: everything you need to know
Google officially unveiled the Google Home Hub at a hardware event in the fall, and began selling it October 22 for $150. The smart display and speaker integrate with Google Assistant to provides a visual element to augment the smart speaker. Here's everything you need to know.
Amazon ups its smart home game with a new Echo Show, microwave, and clock
Amazon dropped a whole bunch of new devices on the smart home market this morning at its annual hardware event in Seattle including a completely redesigned Echo Show, an AmazonBasics smart microwave, a new security platform, an Alexa-enabled analog clock, and a Ring-friendly security camera.
Icon and New Story are pairing cheap 3D-printed homes with people in need
Icon is teaming up with New Story, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that is tackling homelessness throughout North America, to bring cheap, fast and sustainable homes to people in need.
You can assemble this foldable M.A.DI flatpack A-frame home in just six hours
Newly produced in Italy, this versatile, foldable M.A.DI. house can be deployed for a wide variety of uses from housing to disaster relief.
Vertical forests are returning nature to cities, one skyscraper at a time
Two architects are designing areas for plants and forests on the tops and faces of skyscrapers. They’re also inspiring others to do the same.
'No, it will not squash you.' Transforming homes unfold from a cube in minutes
UK-based Ten Fold Engineering aims to disrupt the construction industry with its mobile, modular, self-deploying buildings and structures.
From EV fleets to LED streetlights, San Diego is America’s premier smart city
Long described as a big city that doesn’t feel like one, San Diego is quickly becoming the gold standard for how to develop, deploy and demonstrate technologies that help its environment, its economy, and its infrastructure.
Beneath the futuristic architecture, Oslo really is as smart as it looks
Oslo is one of Europe’s most forward-thinking cities and is investing heavily in its smart city programs to help with technology, infrastructure, climate health, and more.
As oceans rise, one company is building cities that can swim
Floating cities may remind some people of science fiction scenarios like the 1995 post-apocalyptic movie Waterworld, but a new enterprise introduced to the United Nations envisions a high-tech, scalable floating city that could use extreme recycling, energy efficiency and communal design.
In space, clothes can smell really bad. Russian firm seeks way to wash them
Russia's go-to company for space technology since 1946 appears to be working on an interesting project to accompany its investment in the International Space Station A washing machine for astronauts' space clothes would turn the carbon dioxide astronauts expel into a cleaning liquid.
Vayyar Imaging’s 3D sensors may lead to a completely transparent smart home
Vayyar is entering the smart home market with its cost-efficient 3D sensors that can essentially turn an entire house transparent.
LEDVANCE Introduces New HomeKit-Enabled Sylvania Smart+ Filament Light Bulb
Sylvania is expanding its range of smart light bulbs with new bulbs that work with Apple HomeKit and Siri commands, without Wi-Fi.
‘The Airbnb Story’: How an air mattress laid the foundation for an empire
In Leigh Gallagher's new book The Airbnb Story, she gets the scoop on one of the country's biggest success stories.
Security platform Abode has produced a new smart home automation engine
A fairly rogue operation launched by a former ADT exec is taking a big step with its new product, Abode Cue, a smart home security platform that allows users to create, customize, and manage all of the smart home devices that the platform controls.
Fancy a Grand Prix race in the open air? Get started by building your own DIY racing drone.
Racing is quickly becoming a popular sport among drone enthusiasts. Here's everything you need to know to about the burgeoning sport.
Five sweet ice cream makers for homemade deliciousness
Who makes the best ice cream makers? Well, that depends on your taste. Here are five of our favorite models currently on the market.
The Instant Pot is on sale at crazy prices for Mother’s Day
Still shopping for a Mother's Day gift? Surprise your mom (or wife) with the wildly popular kitchen appliance The Instant Pot at a massive markdown today at Amazon and Sur La Table. This 10-in-1 multi-use pressure cooker almost never goes on sale, so act now to get this fantastic price.
What you need to know about smart camera privacy
Smart home cameras still seem like the bee's knees right now compared to traditional security systems that just store footage on local media systems but networked or Wi Fi-enabled cameras have inherent security vulnerabilities that can present a significant risk to users. Here are the basics.
Kasa smart home brand hits the great outdoors with a new weatherproof cam
One of the world's biggest smart home brands is finally getting out into the great outdoors as TP-Link expands its Kasa smart home ecosystem with a brand-new, high-definition outdoor security cameram as well as an expanded Wi-Fi plug that offers dual use from a single outlet.
Hanwha Techwin enters the smart security market with two new indoor cameras
Hanwha Techwin America is a well-established manufacturer of video surveillance equipment and cybersecurity solutions, and is now entering the smart home market with two new smart security cameras that feature HD monitoring, facial recognition, and two-way communication.
Here are the five new Amazon Echo devices available now
Five new Amazon devices start shipping right now, including the Echo Show, Dot, Sub, Plus, and a smart plug. Here are all the details on the devices, including price, what these new products do, and how they might augment your smart home setup.
Robots and delivery services take over a kitchen-free future, reports says
UBS analysts suggested to investors this week that the traditional home kitchen might be permanently altered by meal-delivery services-, envisioning a future where meals made by robots are delivered by drones in lieu of a home-cooked meal.
Is Amazon tweaking its search algorithms with a new A.I.-driven shopping site?
Amazon has quietly rolled out a new shopping experiment in a test site called Scout, which uses a visual platform to display products. It allows users to like and dislike products to tweak their recommended products in seven shopping categories including women's shoes, home furniture, and kitchen and dining products.
Petco is fighting the competition with voice-activated content on smart speakers
Petco's new strategy to compete with retailers like PetSmart, Bark, and Amazon's new Wag is to develop content to position the company as the best source of pet information and the ability to source pet products intelligently by partnering with Alpine.AI to help users interact via digital assistants.
New Comcast feature limits the amount of time kids spend on the internet
Today's kids have had the Internet since they were born and they're used to 24/7 access. Comcast is giving parents a little more control with a new feature that can automatically pause a kid's access to the Internet once their daily time limit has been rearched.
Keep your kids from spending hundreds of dollars and more ways of parenting with Alexa
Amazon's digital assistant provides some amazing services. However, as many parents have learned, it can also lead to some colossal bungles.
Whole Foods’ Prime Now is now in 48 cities across the country
Amazon Prime members in certain locales can now get their Whole Foods groceries delivered straight to their front door in two hours or less. Ann Arbor, Detroit, Jacksonville, Madison, Milwaukee, Omaha, Orlando, St. Louis, Tampa and Tulsa are among the latest additions to this service.
Get ready for more smart cooking and cleaning with Samsung’s Bixby A.I.
Samsung is doubling down on its investment in its Bixby A.I.-powered assistant by embedding the smart platform in all of its robot cleaners and smart ovens by the end of 2018, one more step toward unifying its smart product ecosystem under Bixby by 2020.
Alexa’s newest feature lets the A.I. get back to you with an answer
Some enterprising Alexa users were surprised recently to discover a previously unknown update to the intelligent assistant called "Answer Updates," an improvement that allows Alexa to file away questions she can't answer yet and inform users once she learns the answer.
Qualcomm goes all-in on Amazon Alexa voice control with a new development kit
Qualcomm Technologies is giving a major boost to smart home device manufacturers with a new addition to its popular mesh Wi-Fi networks. A new development kit is designed to enable the Amazon Alexa Voice Service in new devices with minimal time and financial investment.