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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

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    Hey, parents, Spotify has some tips on navigating your kids’ digital listening world.

    The streaming music service has launched a new Parental Guide detailing its tools for managing your kids’ listening habits as well as its efforts to keep the platform safe.

    Spotify’s actual parental controls are limited to filtering out explicit content and controlling the playback of certain artists. For a fully curated experience, you’ll need to spring for Spotify Kids, which is part of the Premium Family package.

    Guidance for Parents or Caregivers

    [www.spotify.com]

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Zero to 100 in 40 seconds? Yes, please.

    With burners that pack 10kw of peak power, this induction stove from Impulse Labs can boil a liter of water in 40 seconds. (That’s 100 degrees Celsius for most of the world).

    Developed by former Google Glass and Oculus engineer Sam D’Amico, the stove has a built-in battery and works with a standard 120v outlet. It launches later this year for $6,000.

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Eve’s compact weather station gets Matter support.

    The Eve Weather — a battery-powered E ink display that can measure temperature, humidity, and your weather trend — is now available in a Matter version. Existing devices can be upgraded to the new smart home standard.

    Matter brings compatibility with Google Home, Samsung SmartThings and Amazon Alexa, along with Apple Home. The device costs $79.95 and works with Thread. Eve has committed to upgrading all of its Thread devices to Matter.

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    <em>The Eve Weather now supports Matter.</em>
    <em>The E ink display show the 12 hour weather trend, temperature and humidity.</em>
    <em>Existing Eve Weather devices can be upgraded to Matter and new devices will come Matter-enabled. The Apple HomeKit-only version will continue to be sold.</em>
    <em>The Eve app, which is still iOS-only, records weather data over time.</em>
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    The Eve Weather now supports Matter.
    Image: Eve Systems
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    Lutron’s latest Diva deals with your more dramatic lighting.

    The new $130 Diva smart dimmer for ELV+ lighting brings higher-tech lighting control to the Caseta smart lighting line’s new look.

    Designed for low-voltage fixtures like under-cabinet, track, accent, and tape lighting, it costs twice as much as the standard dimmer but offers phase-selectable dimming.

    Lutron also launched its Caseta Pico paddle remote in five new colors.

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    The new dimmer controls electronic low-voltage loads and supports LED, MLV, incandescent, and halogen lighting. It can also deal with humming and flickering issues.
    <em>The wireless Pico Paddle remote, which can act as a second switch anywhere, is now available in black, light almond, ivory, gray, brown, and white.</em>
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    The new dimmer controls electronic low-voltage loads and supports LED, MLV, incandescent, and halogen lighting. It can also deal with humming and flickering issues.
    Image: Lutron

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