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Host The Perfect Holiday Party With Your Smart Home

Smart Speakers Offer a Stress-Free Soirée Many before you have fallen to the stress of hosting the renowned holiday gathering, but you’re not worried. This year you’ve got a few tricks up your sleeve: You’ve got your smart devices and you know how to use them. Your smart home and home security devices set the tone of your party ...

Sling TV Review

Sling TV Review Sling TV is a video streaming service that provides a cable alternative to cord-cutters. Sporting live broadcast and national networks, Sling TV lets you customize your channel line up. Sling TV offers three unique packages: Sling Orange, Sling Blue, and Sling Orange & Blue. However, Sling Orange & Blue is the only ...

Streaming Royalties and the Starving Artist: How Musicians Make Money

If you’ve actually purchased music lately, it’s likely more for style than function. The vinyl revival has kept the vintage format of buying music steadily increasing. But a majority of today’s music revenue is coming from streaming, so it’s no mystery that making money as a musical artist is difficult when people aren’t paying for ...

Everything You Need to Know About Disney+: Bundles, Pricing, Release Date, and More

When Disney+ was first announced, you might have assumed it would just be a new place to host all of Disney’s animated classics and kid shows. Months later, it’s clear that Disney’s upcoming streaming service is a new place for all of Disney’s vast properties. The Force is strong with this service, and it’s assembled ...

The Best Voice Assistants

Voice assistants, or virtual assistants, are more than just the cool, often-female voices that respond to your verbal requests to play a song or check the weather: They are the point of communication between you and all your connected devices. But whether your voice assistant is the hub of your smart home, or simply a ...

Abode Home Security Review

Reviews Report Abode earns a 4.25 out of 5 according to Reviews.com’s home security scoring system  Abode provides customers with a simple DIY installation and no contract requirements. Professional monitoring plans by Abode start at $0.66 a day. Your home is your most valuable possession, if only because it houses everything that is most important ...

Best Smart Locks

The Best Smart Locks We pitted six of the smartest locks on the market against each other to see how well they held up to our standards of reliability, consistency, ease of use, and, of course, intelligence. A smart lock only performs better than your “dumb” lock if it actually works and doesn’t unlock itself ...

How to Stream the 2019 NBA Finals

This year’s NBA Finals promise more intrigue than any in recent memory. Can Kawhi Leonard keep up this Jordan/Pippen cyborg imitation? Can Steph Curry carry the Warriors to their third straight championship, even with Kevin Durant on the sidelines? Will the best players on both teams leave this summer? Here’s how you can catch every ...

How to Stream TV

Streaming isn’t just a new way to watch TV anymore — it is TV. Companies like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are upending the TV landscape in ways we’ve never seen. In 2018, streaming services produced more scripted original shows than broadcast or cable TV for the first time. Those aren’t just empty calories, either. Streaming services won 12 out ...

Alexa vs. Google Home Ecosystems

Google Home Google Home falls a bit short for compatibility with third-party smart tech. Of the 40 systems and softwares we looked at, 22 were compatible with the Google Home system. Notable exclusions include Scout, Sonos, and Kwikset. If you have a Google Home system, you’ll have to be extra careful when shopping for smart ...

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