The iSmartAlarm is a solid bet for the DIY-ers amongst you, and it will only improve as the company continues to roll out new features.

Now that it's been out almost a year, we updated our Google Home review to reflect the smart speaker's new features like calling.

The Samsung SmartThings ADT Home Security Start Kit comes with the basic accessories needed to protect your home, but you’ll likely need to expand into the smart home ecosystem to use it.

By the 2030s, NASA wants to send humans to Mars. To do so takes a lot of planning, especially when it comes to making the planet habitable. Larry Toups is a space architect who specializes in building for extreme environments.

It's on the verge of thunderstorming. Do you know where your weather app gets its forecast data? Why does your friend's app show a different temperature? A lot has to do with NOAA's National Weather Service, which collects a ton of data and distributes it. But are there better forecast models.

RetroFab is a system from Autodesk that lets you 3D print retrofitted controls for your appliances.

There are a few ways technology can help you host a party centered around the 89th Academy Awards. Here are some of our personal suggestions.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is back streaming after a long break. It's on Netflix, and if you've never seen the delightful yet deep show, now is the time.

Why would you get your cat’s DNA tested? Some of it is superficial, like coat type and length, but the ones worth paying for will give you health information as well. Unfortunately, Basepaws just doesn’t have any health data at the moment.

Do you like cuddling up with dust mites every night? If not, then you should be washing your sheets way more frequently than you probably are.

Picking out paint colors can be daunting. Luckily, there are many online tools to help show you how your walls will look in different hues.

Barnes & Noble wanted to make Diverse Editions of classic books like Alice in Wonderland. It used A.I. to scan them but missed racist descriptions and important context.

Roughly 80 percent of women are wearing the wrong bra size, for a variety of reasons. Even if you’ve been measured before, changes in weight and hormones can affect your size. Soma’s Somainnofit smart bra helps you more accurately gauge your size and get recommendations for better-fitting bras.

Chances are, your sneakers probably stink -- especially if you've been walking around CES 2019 for a few days. At the show, Haier showed off its shoe washer, which deodorizes your sneakers without you having to do anything at all. It also has another shoe washer for deeper cleaning.

Would you buy an $800 countertop oven that only made one thing? What if that one thing were pizza? The Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo gets far hotter than your built-in range, up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. That means it cooks pizza more like a commercial oven in your local pizzeria.

Nutribaby+Connect is a smart baby food processor that keeps track of what you're feeding your child thanks to an app.

Your smart home is about to get safer. Thanks to new new additions to the Netatmo Security range, give yourself peace of mind.

At CES 2017, Bodyfriend had its Aventar massage chair on display. It's a very high-tech chair that will debut in 2018.

Putting together a wedding registry can be fun, especially when you stick to things you want and not just what you think you're expected to put on there. Technology is playing a bigger part in modern wedding registries, so go ahead and put a TV on there.

Digital Trends interviews Dr. Friederike Otto about her book Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change.

The Drumi, from Yirego, is a foot-powered washing machine that requires no electricity and only 10 liters of water per wash.

LG introduced a smart version of its InstaView fridge at IFA 2016, and it runs on Windows 10.

Digital Trends is outfitting a condo in Seattle with tons of smart-home devices suited for an apartment. We’ll look at gadgets that are affordable, portable, and hopefully useful.

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future is a new book by historian Jill Lepore.

The United Nations new report on biodiversity finds none of the targets set in 2010 have been met.

Researchers who study microorganisms that live on and in humans think they're worth preserving. They want to create a microbiota vault in case of emergency.

The Grace Hopper Celebration brings together women in tech. It's completely online this year, including Serena Williams' keynote.

Everyone and their cousin has a podcast, but not all podcasts are created equal. With new and returning podcasts coming every week, it can be hard to figure out what to listen to. This week: TV presidents, a dispute over native lands, WW2 love letters, and wrongful imprisonment.

The SETI@home project uses citizen scientists to help look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Data from telescopes is sent to their computers for processing.

Digital Trends interviewed Firmin DeBrabander about his new book, Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.

Cows release methane into the atmosphere during their normal digestion. Adding seaweed to their food could help, says Symbrosia's Alexia Akbay.

Klima lets you input your information to get a sense of your carbon footprint. You can also pay to offset your carbon-heavy lifestyle.

NOAA released a new outlook for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting more named storms than usual.

A new study from the Pew Research Trust found that the amount of plastic found in oceans will more than double by 2040 unless drastic measures are taken.

Air conditioning is a necessity in some parts of the world, but a new United Nations report says it must become more efficient or climate change will worsen.

C40 Cities is a group of mayors dedicated to tackling climate change. They think the coronavirus should transform cities into car-free, mass transit utopias.

Nina Jankowicz is a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center. Her new book is How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, released a plan aimed at addressing climate change ahead of the 2020 election. Here's what's in it.