Dark Tech, Dark Harvest: Categorizing the Democrats’ Hidden Tech Network

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LG is bringing Athom’s Homey products and the third-party device support they provide under its wing. | Image: LG / Homey LG has acquired an 80 percent stake in Athom, a Dutch company best known for its Homey smart home platform. The deal, which LG says will see it acquire the remaining 20 percent of Athom within the next three years, has been forged to expand LG’s smart home ecosystem and should position it to better compete against Samsung’s rivaling SmartThings platform. LG plans to integrate Athom’s existing Homey connectivity — which supports smart devices from Sonos, Ikea, Aqara, Philips Hue, and more — across its appliances through its ThinQ smart home platform. According to Homey, its users will soon be able to control ThinQ-enabled LG appliances via the platform. Homey has developed a significant user base since it was founded in 2014, with its f... Continue reading…

If you've been dreaming about an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft 365, your wish has just been granted. Swiss software developer Proton on Wednesday announced Docs in Proton Drive, which will offer an extra privacy feature no other collaborative online document editing product can match. Proton Docs is the latest addition to Proton's expanding list of apps and services. It'll be available for free as part of the Proton Drive experience in your Proton account. A subscription will get you more storage space for Proton Drive and other premium features for other Proton apps available under the same account. Continue reading... The post Proton Docs brings end-to-end encryption to online document editing appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $714 Apple Watch Ultra 2, $30 Thermacell mosquito repeller, $130 Instant Pot Duo Plus, more Today’s deals: $199 AirPods Pro 2, $89 robot vacuum, 15% off pet odor spray, $19 Roku Express, more Today’s deals: $19 myQ smart garage controller, $799 75-inch smart TV, $90 Ninja Air Fryer Pro, more Today’s deals: Early Prime Day sales, $50 Ring Doorbell, $80 Keurig coffee maker, $470 Dyson V11, more

I remain immensely proud to have also served our nation as a Marine during the Korean "conflict" as that brutal war was initially called. During two tours of duty, I was commended for "leadership abilities" and served 1956-58 as a member of the elite Marine Security...

A former New York Times editor has accused the White House of concealing President Joe Biden's deteriorating condition and chastised the media for failing to dig in and expose the truth.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested nearly 3,300 illegal migrants in one sector along the Canadian border in June, a 422% percent jump from June 2023, Breitbart reported Tuesday.

More than 50 House Democrats are urging five major pharmacy retailers to commit to dispensing mifepristone, the first of a two-pill cocktail used in medicated abortions, after the Supreme Court's decision last month not to block access to the drug.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it would revoke the regulation that authorized the use of brominated vegetable oil in food items, effective Aug. 2, as it was no longer safe. BVO is a chemical ingredient containing bromine, which is found in fire ...

One in three Democrats say President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll ...