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Enable Alexa notifications to know when your pizza is on the way

Alexa can send notifications when your Amazon order or Domino's pizza order goes out for delivery. Here's how.

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9 ways to use Google Home in the bathroom

It's for more than just shower karaoke. Here are the other ways you can use Google Home in the bathroom.

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How to set up parental controls on Google Home

Google wants to teach our kids manners. Who are we to stop it?

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The easiest way to make iced coffee at home

If you thought making iced coffee at home was too hard to time-consuming, think again.

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How many smart speakers does your home actually need?

Can't get enough of Google Home or Alexa? This is for you.

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13 Instant Pot tips, recipes and features everyone should know

Here's proof we spend way too much time with the Instant Pot.

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5 reasons why you should own an Instant Pot

Here are 5 big reasons you should own an Instant Pot.

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These recipes make the most of your Instant Pot

CNET editors use the Pot, and we have the recipes to prove it.

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How to use your Instant Pot

It's not just a supercharged pressure cooker -- it's a way of life.

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<p>An Instant Pot can fit around eight eggs at a time.</p>

Instant Pot recipes everyone should know: Hard-boiled eggs, rotisserie chicken and more

What was life like before Instant Pot? Slow.

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What to do when your thermostat is wrong

Feeling hot, but your thermostat says it's cool? It's not just you.

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8 surprising things Alexa can't yet do

Alexa devices come with a laundry list of features. But there are plenty of things Alexa can't do yet, and some of the missing features might surprise you.

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All the products that work with

Amazon Alexa

Wherever you find her, she can control a growing list of smart home devices.

Apple HomeKit

If you own a recent iPhone or iPad, you have HomeKit. Control products with Siri or Apple's Home app.

Belkin WeMo

These smart home devices offer simple app controls for things like lights, power outlets and appliances.

Google Home

Play music, look up facts and control smart home gadgets -- just ask.

Lutron

Makes a variety of lighting products, including smart light switches and app-enabled, motorized window shades.

Nest

The Works with Nest program ensures that everything from thermostats to your Mercedes talks to each other to help make your home smarter.

Philips Hue

Hue has become the best connected smart home lighting system. It works with just about every smart home platform you can think of.

Samsung SmartThings

Gathers control of your gadgets into a single app.

Wink

The Wink Hub and its well-designed app give you control of smart home products from lots of different companies.

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Help, my PC with Windows 10 won't shut down properly

Since upgrading to Windows 10 my computer won't shut down properly. I use the menu button shutdown and the screen goes blank, but the system does not fully shut down. The only way to get it to shut down is to hold the physical power button down till it shuts down. Any suggestions?