Home upgrades are supposed to make your life easier, safer, or more stylish, not trigger a grilling from a claims adjuster when something goes wrong. Yet the projects that add the most value are often ...

You know that feeling when you're fixing something around the house and think to yourself, "This is too small to worry about ...

The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing ...

Home automation systems are all well and good, so long as the person who built it all is around to drive it. Let’s face it, they’re quite often a complex web of interconnected systems, all tied to the ...

Americans are increasingly facing capital gains tax when they sell their homes. In 2023, "roughly 8%" of home sales were hit with capital gains tax, which marks "more than double the share in 2019," ...

The Google Home app is currently experiencing what seems to be a bug that removes the ability to trigger routines on other devices. For years now, the Google Home app has supported creating and using ...

As people across the Southeast continue to pick up the pieces from Hurricane Helene, many will continue to face a rude awakening: that they—or their landlords—don’t have flood insurance. Those facing ...

I just got a shiny new (used) Arcam AVR300 receiver to replace my old Pioneer receiver that is failing. What I want to do, is to be able to press one button on my remote to turn on both my TV and ...

In a recent development, Google’s Home and Away Assistant routines are getting a new feature. Notably, now, the Home and Away Routines have a new arrive/leave location trigger. You will now see new ...