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The first Yale/August Home locks will arrive in October, complete with HomeKit, auto-unlock, and Siri-based features

This qualifies as pretty nifty. When Yale’s parent company purchased August Home in 2017, it promised to ‘create the future of smart residential doors.’ Yale is currently taking the first step in that direction with two new Yale locks incorporating August technology. The nifty bit: While Yale has made HomeKit-compatible smart locks for a while […]

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iOS 12.1 to allow iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR units to use eSIM features

Apple’s latest iOS 12.1 beta apparently introduces support for the eSIM, or a digital SIM that lets you activate a cellular plan from your carrier without needing to use a physical SIM card. In the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, the eSIM pairs with the included nano-SIM to enable dual-SIM functionality. The eSIM feature […]