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Preorders for Apple’s brand-new HomePod Mini kicked off last week. If you were one of the many who secured one — shipping estimates are now bumping back to December — you might have been tempted to slap AppleCare into your shopping cart, too.
By design, most Alexa-powered devices can be controlled entirely with voice commands right out of the box — just say “Alexa” and your Echo speaker, Fire TV or other Alexa device will respond, no button-presses or taps necessary. The rare exception is the Alexa smartphone app, which requires users tap…
Hacked by a Hue lightbulb? It sounds silly, but security researchers at Check Point Software recently demonstrated that unpatched Philips Hue smart lights be used as an attack vector into your network if someone takes advantage of an exploit in the ZigBee protocol that the bulbs use to communicate with…
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