Smart-home devices sometimes require complicated installation that just doesn’t make sense for renters. Plus, apartments have different needs than single-family ...

At an event today in San Francisco, Nest announced that it is releasing a second-generation smoke detector, and it’s also called the Nest Protect. The new detector has a “split spectrum sensor” for ...

We’ve all experienced that annoyance: You’re cooking bacon on Sunday morning and the smoke alarm goes off. How convenient would it be to yell, “Bacon!” and have the alarm shut off? We’re not there yet ...

Never has safety been more stylish and smart with the updated Nest Protect, a smoke and carbon monoxide detector that, like all modern devices, comes with its own mobile app and the option to ...

On Monday, Google bought Nest—a maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors—for the princely sum of $3.2 billion. Much of the response so far has involved 1) sussing out the strategy behind ...

There's nothing cool about safety. Yes, safety is important, but it's very rarely cool. The stylish Nest Protect is, at its core, a smoke detector -- the least chic item in your home. Still, when the ...