Have a Smart Speaker? Use it to Make Your Smoke Alarms Smart

April 22, 2022

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The “tar” in the famous Le Brea Tar Pits is actually prehistoric asphalt that slowly seeps from the ground.

If you have an Amazon Echo or Google Nest smart speaker in your home, you can easily use it to monitor your home for smoke and carbon monoxide. This is a simple way to turn your “dumb” traditional smoke dectors into smart alarms. Read More »

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Roborock’s Q5+ budget vacuum, released on April 22, 2022, is close to greatness. At 50% of the cost of the premium S7 MaxV Ultra, you’ll enjoy an autonomous robotic cleaner with the ability to detect and dynamically adjust to floor types and empty itself automatically. But don’t leave cords nearby. Read More »

Facebook, the popular social network, boasts billions of users worldwide. Did you ever wonder how the service got its name—and what does “Facebook” mean, anyway? We’ll explain. Read More »

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Sure, when you were a kid, you might have enjoyed picking dandelions. As an adult, though, they become quite the nuisance. Could the answer to this weed problem be in your pantry? Read More »

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was one of the best movies of the 1990s, and the arcade game of the same name produced by Midway was too. I was only a few years old when it came out in 1991, but I’ve watched the movie and dumped more quarters into the arcade than I care to admit. Read More »

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Adding values in Google Sheets is easy enough to do using the SUM function. But what if you only want to add numbers that meet certain criteria? Using SUMIF in a Google Sheets formula, you can add the exact values you want. Read More »