Amazon's Alexa digital assistant has a new smart-home capability: It can now unlock smart locks with a voice command. Amazon's assistant already had the capability to lock many smart locks. But ...

Amazon today simplified smart locks for Alexa, by adding a Door Lock API to its Alexa Skills Kit. This API, or application program interface, is designed to improve voice commands for lock partners ...

As time goes on, Amazon keeps bolstering the smart home capabilities of Alexa. The company announced today that it's adding the first Alexa Skill for door locks, with the August Home Smart Lock ...

Entry lock manufacturers Kwikset, Schlage, and Yale have announced new Alexa skills that enable you to control some models of their entry locks via voice commands directed at Alexa-enabled products ...

BERLIN, Conn, January 31, 2018 – Yale Locks & Hardware today announced that its Yale Real Living® Assure Lock® with Zigbee®, available in several different models including slim touchscreen, keyed ...

Assa Abloy-owned lock manufacturer Yale has now announced support for Amazon’s Alexa via Samsung’s SmartThings platform. Those who own one of Yale’s Keyfree or Keyless Smart Door Locks will now be ...

Looks can be deceiving, and the Amazon Echo is the best way to describe that. Amazon has been betting big on Alexa, the virtual assistant built into Amazon Echo. At first, it felt like the Amazon Echo ...

Amazon's Alexa has been useful for locking Yale's smart deadbolts, but what about unlocking them when there's a guest at the door? You're set after today. Yale has introduced Alexa support for ...

Last September, Marcus, a 31-year-old resident of Springfield, Missouri, discovered a flaw with Apple's HomeKit, the iPhone maker's program for hooking up smart home gadgets in iOS. Marcus had ...

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