Transform your old smartphone into a cost-effective home security camera. By downloading a third-party app, you can repurpose unused devices to monitor your home, children, or pets. This simple DIY ...

Discover Android's new Sound Notifications feature that alerts you to smoke alarms, doorbells, and baby cries even when ...

Security keys lock down your account. The new YubiKey 5C NFC works with USB-C ports on a laptop and phones' wireless NFC connection. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

For complete privacy, you can manage alerts and notifications yourself with a free self-monitoring plan from SimpliSafe. You can also live stream from cameras if you want to find out what’s making ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot. The video assumes you ...

You don’t even know how much personal information your smart home devices collect about you – or which ones do. It’s a tricky world to be living in when it comes to using anything connected to the ...

As packages left outside home for delivery are targeted for theft this holiday season, police warn more thieves are using jammers to scramble the video on wifi ...