Home Assistant is a free and open-source smart home ecosystem with near-limitless potential. Unlike proprietary systems from Apple, Google, and Amazon, Home Assistant lets you build more complex ...

The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our fingertips, and we’d all ...

Six months after Tamara Schumer, of Fairfax, Va., opened her home-based window-treatment business in 2016, it took off. "I was fortunate," says Schumer, owner of Budget Blinds of Arlington & ...

In this hyper-competitive, consumer-focused marketplace, new technologies are increasingly allowing data analysis and information reprocessing to foster “virtual relationships.” This is an exciting ...