Andrew O'Hara

Robot vacuum peddler Ecovacs is showcasing their latest flagship model at CES 2025, Deebot X8 PRO Omni which is several improvements including a self-washing roller mop.

Anker comes prepared for CES 2025 with lots of new accessories, from powerful chargers to speakers to solar beach umbrellas.

Prolific computer storage maker LaCie has released its latest portable drive during CES 2025, debuting the Rugged SSD Pro5 with support for Thunderbolt 5.

Canadian smart home brand Nanoleaf released multiple new smart home products at CES 2025, including its first floor lamp and a new software subscription.

We report developments and corresponding calculations in the first-principles theory of multiphonon processes in solids, enabling direct calculations of nonradiative capture cross sections of both thermalized and hot carriers by defects in semiconductors. We present an improved derivation of the theory, implement an efficient time-domain integration scheme that enables summing over all possible multiphonon configurations for dissipating the energy released by the carrier capture, and extend the time-domain formulation to allow changes in phonon frequencies before and after capture. We examine zeroth- and first-order nonequilibrium contributions to the electron-capture cross section of a triply hydrogenated vacancy in Si and the first-order equilibrium hole-capture coefficient of a substitutional impurity in GaN. In Si, we find that the zeroth-order term is two orders of magnitude larger than the first-order term. In GaN, the present results are within range of the sparse available experimental data at high temperatures but below the single experimental point at low temperatures. We see an improvement over previous calculations and a decreased temperature dependence that we attribute to the inclusion of all phonon modes.

We've completed our trek across the vast halls of CES 2025 to round up the best smart home devices for Apple users. From robot vacuums to pocketable projectors, here's what we've found.

After a week of high-profile releases, CES 2025 is over and there was some awful stuff on display. Here's the worst and weirdest products at the show.

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we talk about more straggling CES news, Apple TV rumors, GM's CarPlay issues, and lay out Apple's 2025 smart home roadmap.

It's been a few months since Apple launched the black Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the all-new Apple Watch Series 10. Here's how they compare after three months of daily use.

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we step through the week's news, revisit the question whether to upgrade to Matter, and go hands-on with a kids smart speaker.