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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

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    Your iPhone can now tell you if your house is on fire.

    A new Sound Recognition feature on Apple HomePods will send an alert to your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch if the smart speaker hears a smoke or CO alarm going off. Here’s how to turn it on.

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    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Does your smart washing machine air your dirty laundry?

    Quite possibly. Dan Wroclawski at Consumer Reports did a deep dive into smart appliances and the privacy payoffs you make for connected convenience. Have a read before you hook up that new washer to your Wi-Fi.

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    Samsung will let you put TOILETPAPER on your fridge.

    A collaboration with the irreverent creative studio, TOILETPAPER, has produced some unique conversation starters for owners of Samsung’s Bespoke refrigerators.

    Currently on display at the 2023 Milan Design Week, the limited edition refrigerator panels from TOILETPAPER include the option to have a bevy of roses with eyes in the middle staring out at you as you drink your morning coffee. Or, pick the one that emblazons TOILETPAPER’s logo across your fridge, along with a partially headless 50s housewife displaying her wares.

    White goods no more. Edgy, Samsung, very edgy.

    Samsung’s taking customizing your fridge to bizarre new places.
    Samsung’s taking customizing your fridge to bizarre new places.
    Image: Samsung Electronics