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Your smart home devices may not be keeping you as safe as you think... “There’s no industry standard and there’s is no way to tell if a product is secure or not if you are the average Joe. That is a big problem and it’s a problem that the industry ne ...

Early adopters, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have bought into the idea of a smart home, but mainstream consumers haven't. “Here’s the paradox: While we may consider many of these devices ‘smart home’ products, the consumer doesn’t think ...

The Thread mesh networks will be built on top of 802.15.4 hardware, which is already on the market in some Nest devices and is what Zigbee, a previously competing wireless protocol for home automation, used as well. However, Zigbee will also be built ...

Having dropped its Home Monitoring & Control service last year, Verizon moves former users to Nexia Home Intelligence DIY home automation platform; seeds IoT market with Greenwave-powered Quantum Z-Wave and ZigBee router.

Apple's smart home platform is gaining another member: the Ecobee3 smart thermostat, the first connected thermostat to work with HomeKit. It costs $249 and is essentially an alternative to Nest's thermostat...

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Or possibly only allow the downvote button inside the discussion page. For example, some people may downvote this without reading that I offered the suggestion of only hiding the downvote button.

One or the other would be to prevent voting on title alone. It would require additional understanding of the post or news article before voting.

I know I'm new here, but this is something I've thought about for a while that would be nice on reddit to make the community more involved instead of blind up and down votes. And this place seems concerned about low quality voting so I think it might be nice.

Thanks for reading.