#smart-home-devices

#smart-home-devices

Apparently, it's always Friday at the Home Depot. Or at least, the Home Depot Black Friday deals have slipped all customary bounds of the calendar: Online deals started November 5 and will go all the way to December 3. This includes some very steep discounts on flagship tool brands like Milwaukee, Ryobi, and DeWalt toolsby which I mean half-off and buy-one-get-one steep. Seemingly half the store is on sale.

The new collection was teased by Ikea's David Granath during our exclusive interview earlier this year, and the company originally promised support for the Matter smart home standard when it announced its Dirigera hub in May 2022. Although the hub's Matter support ended up being delayed for several years, it was finally introduced in beta in March 2024. Several months later, Ikea updated its smart hub so all users could use it as a bridge between the company's Zigbee-based smart home devices and other Matter-enabled systems.

It delayed Starbucks orders, Reddit scrolls - and yes, work Slack messages. AWS' cloud services provide a backbone for many internet companies. On Monday morning, the company experienced a widespread outage, listing over 80 affected services on the status page for Amazon's cloud unit. While Amazon said the underlying issue had been been "fully mitigated" earlier on Monday, a second wave of issues hit US users later in the morning as the company continued to battle the outage.

Advertisements are a known consequence of online life in 2025. When you watch a YouTube video, scroll through social media, or open an article like this one you're reading right now, it's normal and expected to see ads. Some advertising is more aggressive than others, but you know what you're getting into when you use any facet of the modern internet. However, there are other times when ads appear in unexpected places.

Securing your home before a summer trip is essential to preventing burglaries; hide valuables, use timers for lights, and check home security systems.