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Smart home
Smart home technology keeps people connected with their living environments.
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One building – two digital twins
Digital twins can be used to build more ecologically, saving energy and recycling materials.
Shift - Living in the Digital Age
Shift Special: Buildings that cut their energy usage with smart tech and smart ideas.
China's smart home enthusiasm
In China, smart home devices are finding an eager clientele, eclipsing privacy and surveillance concerns.
Shift - Living in the Digital Age
Shift Special Smart Homes: How risky are smart houses?
Made in Germany - Your Business Magazine
MADE in Germany with stories on grow light gardening, laser beams and solar engineers.
Ever brighter - the business of light
From the lightbulb to the smart home. The changing illumination in our living rooms.
Alexa, don't tell the police what I just did
Data from voice assistants, smart TVs and even refrigerators could soon play a role in prosecuting crimes in Germany.
Made in Germany - Vegetable lamps, laser beams and solar engineers
MADE in Germany with stories on grow light gardening, laser beams and solar engineers.
Smart homes in vogue at Berlin electronics show
At the IFA Berlin trade fair, the smart home is already reality - but it might mot be as risk-free as you think.
The best tech gadgets on display at IFA 2018
IFA is the showcase event for tomorrow's devices and gadgets. DW lists some of the best new tech on display in Berlin.
Smart homes for the disabled
Smart homes simplify life – and for the disabled they mean more independence.
Eco-homes not fossil fuels
The US Department of Energy hosts eco-innovation competition — even as it proposes rolling back support for renewables.
IFA 2017: This is how our digital future will look
The newest trends at the IFA trade show in Berlin.
Apple unveils smart home speaker
Apple has unveiled its new smart home device at its annual developers’ conference.
Can you outsmart your smart home?
Homes are getting smarter - we have to be too, says DW's Janelle Dumalaon.
Smart home owners face hacking threat
The security risks around the Internet of Things hit close to home - or smart devices in them.
Can smart homes help the planet?
Many of us have smart phones, but how long before we start living in smart homes?
The first digital mirror
Clever fridges, intelligent toothbrushes and now there is even a smart mirror.
Smart homes problems
Smart homes are often controlled by apps from a smartphone. But what if someone hacks the server?
Software problems with smart homes
Smart Homes are gaining popularity. But what if someone hacks the server?
Shift - Living in the Digital Age
Security risks in Smart Homes, women in the gamer scene and a parkour run with a selfie stick.
What is a smart home?
...asks Rumesha Pathirana from Kuliyapitiya (Sri Lanka)
Google gets louder on voice-activated tech
Tech giant Google is moving into virtual reality and voice-activation tech, competing with Apple, Facebook, and Amazon.
Internet of Things: impossible to escape total surveillance?
Networked things track our every move. If you didn't already know that, you do now.
Smart Homes with a little risk
Intelligent houses do chores for their residents. But the technology carries risks.
Smart Homes
Intelligent houses do chores for their residents. But the technology carries risks.
The problem with the network
Researchers are concerned about the potential for hackers to get at your personal cookie jar as more and more of our household machinery gets networked. The problem with the networked world is that we have so little control over the network itself.
Deadly network
Cars, televisions, refrigerators - many devices are networked these days. Which makes us vulnerable.
Google knocks at your door
Data protection activists are up in arms as Google buys up Nest Labs for over €2bn. Nest Labs gathers data on consumer habits in the home. It potentially takes Google from Street-View, into Home-View.
Smart Homes
Smart homes are one of the major trends at the CEBIT, the world's biggest trade fair for information technology in Hanover. Find out how modern technology can read a recipe to heat the oven to the right temperature and link up your home trainer to the TV.
Smart homes
Hate to get out of bed? If you get a home like the Living Place Hamburg, your house might make you.
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