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Amazon's First Forays Into Homebuilding Are Worth Watching

A new player with a very familiar name has entered into the residential homebuilding market.

October 4, 2018 - Yahoo Finance

Why Some Smart Home Gadgets Are Dumb

An article in Quartz laments the underwhelming results of a generation of gadgets intended to make houses technologically enabled.

April 6, 2016 - Quartz

Why Would Anyone Want a Smart Home?

A tech columnist reviews the current state of smart home technology and finds that improvements will be necessary before widespread adoption can be expected.

June 24, 2014 - The Wall Street Journal

The Smart Home Has Arrived

Though smart cities and smart phones have tended to dominate professional discussions of late, the smart home has been a gleam in the eye of futurists for decades. Experts predict home automation will accelerate over the next few years.

December 24, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

The Smart Home of the Future: Nurse or Nudge?

Depending on your outlook, the smart home of the future may be an essential caregiver (or an annoying nudge) explains Emily Badger, who explores the new technology giving homes the ability to reason what’s going on inside them.

April 3, 2012 - The Atlantic Cities

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