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Timi Cantisano Apr 9, 2026, 12:59 AM EDT Timi has been writing about technology for over a decade, focusing on smartphones, computers, and anything that he finds interesting in the tech…
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Your home network probably has a hidden bottleneck, and Wi-Fi 7 won't fix it
…and a multi-Gig switch and eventually get your Wi-Fi server router up and running, do the devices in your home actually take advantage of this? Even in 2026, many smartphones…
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
…to backup restoration, reloading HASS Core, updating services, writing files, and triggering scripts. On paper, letting my LLMs control my smart devices sounds neat, but I’d rather not deal with a…
I tried this hidden Android Auto feature — and now I use it every day
…on all its devices and services . I can’t wait to see a future when I don’t even need to pin a shortcut because the AI is smart enough to handle…
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I turned my old phone into a security camera that saves to my home server for free
…smart plug. Set an automation to turn the plug on when the phone hits 20% and then off when the phone hits 80%. This will cycle the battery and extend the device…
I thought I needed a new router, but turning my old one into an access point fixed more than I expected
Jasmine Mannan Apr 15, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Your Wi-Fi antennas are pointing the wrong way
…In an office environment with desktop PCs and mounted smart TVs, that might work, as those devices sit stationary. However, your home network is dominated by the mobile factor. Your technology is…
Google's long-awaited new Home Speaker is finally launching soon
…its new AI-powered voice assistant that supports more natural language and multi-step phrases, rather than the rigid commands used by Google Assistant and its previous generation smart speakers, including the…
I ran a full LLM on my phone with no internet, and it's more useful than I expected
…open-source AI models built on the same architecture of Gemini 3, and it consists of models in four different sizes: E2B and E4B for phones and edge devices, a 26B mixture…