If you don’t know what the mental load is then, chances are, you’re a man. Popularised by an awesome feminist…
Author: Sophie Charara
Men use voice assistants to control the smart home more than women and around three quarters of Amazon Alexa and…
Ring’s doing its bit for smart home security and that includes putting out a survey of Brits that found that…
Now that robot vacuums are a reality, it’s fun to look back at the autonomous, radio-controlled vac in the RCA…
Roku’s got a plan for your TV audio and it’s not a Sonos Beam-rivalling soundbar. No, it’s this TV Wireless…
This spring we got to check out a mini Apple HomeKit model home in John Lewis’ Westfield London store -…
It’s safe to say The Ambient probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Amazon Alexa, the voice assistant first announced…
While Microsoft is hardly leading the connected home charge, it has its own smart home ecosystem in Cortana, its voice…
Reducing energy consumption and saving money are two of the most popular reasons to get into the smart home. So…
The new Amazon Echo Show is also a Zigbee smart home hub and now it looks like there’s going to…
If you’re choosing between the Amazon Echo Show and Google Home Hub, the real versus you need to consider first…
Alexa went down for some users in the US and the UK today, but Amazon says it’s now up and…
Sonos is reportedly talking to Roku about adding Roku’s new voice assistant to its smart speakers including the Sonos One.…
We were pretty sad when we heard that Essential Products, the tech startup from Android founder Andy Rubin, was putting…
“We’ve never felt so isolated and alone, that’s what research suggests, and technology is often blamed for that,” says Jen…
Bang & Olufsen loves limited editions of its speakers – Sotheby’s, Kvadrat, Line Friends – you name it, they’ve collaborated…
Sonos’ CEO Patrick Spence says the Facebook Portal will test whether people care more about privacy or convenience when it…
We don’t cover every smart home crowdfunding project here on The Ambient, but we do like the look of the…
Just in case you’d forgotten that Will.i.am’s tech startup iam+ was building a voice assistant, the pop-star-turned-hardware-enthusiast has been showing…
None of the big three smart home ecosystems – Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit – are perfect as…