Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

The first step to your smart home is getting your app set up. If you're using Google, setting up Google Home is a five minute process. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home ...

For over a decade, Google Chrome has dominated other web browsers by a large margin on both mobile and desktop. The reasons for this popularity include ease of use, high responsiveness, and frequent ...

Creating Barbie Land was so much more than picking out pinks and re-creating toys. Instead, the duo behind the set design of "Barbie" say they interrogated the question: What is it that makes ...

The house in New Jersey came with a menagerie of control panels. Pallid little rectangles with fuzzy LCD screens, of varying brands and designs. Some were decades old, and there were six of them in ...

As a Design leader in a large-scale enterprise, I’ve identified four challenges that future-facing teams hit along the road to innovation, and provocations for how to overcome them. 1. It’s hard to ...

Setting custom ringtones on your iPhone is dramatically easier in iOS 26. Apple has eliminated the need for the cumbersome process of exporting a track from the GarageBand app, and now provides a ...