Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

UK tech company AUAR makes portable micro-factories that it says can produce the wooden frame of a house in a day.

ESP, easy as ABC.

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