Apple introduced six Apple Home devices co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, its first hardware for the platform. Third parties still manufacture them, and The Verge says it has not tested any.
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Apple's Home Collection, developed with LG and Schneider Electric, reaches the UK in December with four cameras at £179.95 to £349.95, T3 reported. T3 lists every product under an LG or Schneider Electric name. The range is co-developed gear for Apple Home.
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Apple co-developed seven smart-home devices with LG that will ship under LG's name, with LG handling manufacturing and support, Bloomberg reports. For teams selling locks, cameras and thermostats into HomeKit, LG is now both a rival with Apple's engineering behind it and the obvious partner to call.
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MindBase runs its own inference on an in-house LLM, which is how Anker gets to promise no monthly fee. The cameras that feed it are orderable now, while the hub still carries no price and no ship date.
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Ring holds a copy of your camera key for 24 hours to keep video search running
Amazon's Throw Away the Key setting stops Ring from holding video keys permanently. Instead its cloud borrows a camera's key for up to 24 hours at a time so smart alerts, video search and descriptions keep working.
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Google Home's fifteen-item update is almost entirely repair work
The Google Home changelog itemises fifteen fixes, including widgets that kept polling cameras while the phone sat locked. In the same release, Google opened device state and event history to outside AI agents.
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