Can a model with 24 billion parameters run your smart home from a box on your desk, without a single cloud call? Liquid AI thinks so. On October 13 it released
Every Home Assistant owner faces the same choice sooner or later: when you buy the next sensor, bulb or plug, should it be Zigbee or Matter over Thread? Forum threads are full of strong opinions an
After years of rumours and two missed internal targets, Apple finally made its smart-home move on October 13, 2026. In one day it announced HomeView, its first home display, a second-generation Hom
Every smart home owner knows the scene: you sit still on the sofa, the motion sensor decides the room is empty and the lights go out. In 2026 that problem has a mainstream answer. mmWave radar pres
Heating season is when a smart home pays for itself, or annoys everyone. In autumn 2026 the choice of smart thermostats and radiator valves widened dramatically: IKEA announced a Matter radiator th
IFA 2026 turned the humble smart-home hub into the most crowded product category of the autumn. Anker and Ugreen want a local AI "brain" with hard drives inside, Shelly turned wall panels you may a
Between early September and early November 2026, Home Assistant changes more than it usually does in half a year. Three monthly releases, a patch with a nasty Matter Server side effect, a rename of
ChatGPT could already write slide content or spit out a .pptx file. Now it has a real presentation editor. Since October 16, 2026, OpenAI has been rolling out ChatGPT Slide
Dual-screen handhelds are back. On October 16, 2026, Anbernic opened pre-orders for the RG DDS, a clamshell Android console that looks a lot like a Nintendo 3DS XL
It’s the kind of crash driver-assistance critics have warned about for years. Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, a Tesla drove into a parked California Highway P
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