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Internet of Things

3G must die so 5G can live

By Rebecca Heilweil

Peloton’s mandatory treadmill memberships show how you never fully own your connected devices

By Sara Morrison

How your power company can remotely control your smart thermostat

By Sara Morrison

Amazon, Apple, and Google are working together so that your smart home works better

By Rani Molla

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11 memes that captured the decade

The internet’s weird viral ephemera provided much-needed levity, stoked fears and hate, and gave us a common language.

By Aja Romano

Is the internet killing language? LOL, no.

By Megan McDonough

People say they care about privacy but they continue to buy devices that can spy on them

By Rani Molla

What it’s really like to live with so-called smart devices

By Rani Molla

Recode Decode at TED: Space environmentalist Moriba Jah wants to know how much “junk” is in Earth’s orbit

By Eric Johnson

Afternoon tea with Sir James Dyson

By Dan Frommer

‘Alexa’ has become a less popular baby name since Amazon launched Echo

By Rani Molla

Advertisers are finding new places for ads with the rise of voice technology

By John Trimble

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Amazon’s Toni Reid and Rohit Prasad have made Alexa a household name

By Kurt Wagner

This is how tech can help us all survive a modern-day apocalypse

By Pat Gelsinger

How can I make my home Wi-Fi faster?

By Eric Johnson

Two U.S. lawmakers think the government has a new cybersecurity problem: The Internet of Things

By Tony Romm

The next looming battle in the tech world will be based around digital assistants

By Bob O'Donnell

Here’s your first tech buzzword of 2017: ‘Brownfield’

By Joe Britt

Mossberg: In tech, form too often trumps function

By Walt Mossberg

While Amazon Alexa quickly becomes part of the family,  Google Home is like a stranger who knows too much about you

By Carolina Milanesi

Here’s what you can do to prevent your smart-home devices from being hijacked

By April Glaser

Obama says the U.S. government still doesn’t know who shut down the internet last week

By April Glaser

Friday’s huge internet outage, explained

By Eric Johnson

Exploding robots may already be in your house

By April Glaser

Amazon accidentally announced a cheaper Echo Dot. Then it deleted the tweet.

By Jason Del Rey

Who is best positioned to build a smart home assistant?

By Jan Dawson

App darling IFTTT says it can run with Apple, Google and Amazon in the smart home race

By Mark Bergen

This startup wants to replace Skype, Dropcam and Amazon’s Echo with a single tablet

By Jason Del Rey

Internet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and vertical

By Bob O'Donnell

Full transcript: Peloton CTO Yony Feng on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Why do we have smart-home apps at all?

By Bob O'Donnell

The Internet of Things is facing challenges with scale

By Bob O'Donnell

Nest is pushing further into the energy business with SolarCity partnership

By Mark Bergen

Why the NSA and other spies will love the Internet of Things

By Arik Hesseldahl

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and GE are teaming up on the Internet of Things

By Arik Hesseldahl

A former Google engineer lands $20 million for his internet-of-things startup

By Ina Fried

The biggest question for the Internet of Things: Who pays?

By Bob O'Donnell

This Mattress Will Tell You if You're Being Cheated On

By Eric Johnson

Nest CEO Tony Fadell went to Google's all-hands meeting to defend Nest. Here's what he said.

By Mark Bergen

The smart home is a fantasy, but 'smart cows' are already real

By Arik Hesseldahl