Adding Wi-Fi doesn’t always turn out to be as smart as it sounds. A smart smoke detector turns out to be dumber than I thought, even with Wi-Fi added. Smart smoke detectors will let you know if a fire ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

The number of fire responses are up in the city. Smoke alarms are vital for surviving fires, say local leaders. Having a working smoke alarm increases chances of surviving a fire by more than 50%, ...

An hour of sleep will disappear overnight when clocks "spring forward" beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday for the start of daylight saving time. As always, fire officials and other health agencies urged ...

Smoke alarms sold on Amazon are being recalled after the company found they could be a fire hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wrote in a Feb. 12 ...

Heat sensors embedded in handrails could save six vital minutes over established methods of detecting fires in large container ships, researchers have found. Danish researchers carried out tests using ...

About 11,000 LShome Photoelectric 3-Pack Smoke Detector Fire Alarms sold on Amazon were recalled due to a failure-to-sound defect. If the detection threshold is set too high, the alarms may not ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - In the wake of the deadly blaze at the Woodley Terrace apartment complex, relief efforts are underway, and attention has turned to preventing future tragedies. The American ...

The Place Any Space smoke detector is stuffed with features—and some of the even pricier models in the product line offer even more—but we’re not sure that justifies their high price tags. When it ...

A Bainbridge Township house fire early Dec. 20 ended without injuries thanks to working smoke detectors, prompting the Bainbridge Fire Department to remind residents how critical the devices can be ...