And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: May 6th, 1851, 167 years ago today … the day Linus Yale Jr. followed in the footsteps of his lock-inventing father and received his own patent for a ...

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Yale’s new smart lock boasts an outstanding design and supports every third-party smart-home platform under the sun, but Yale’s app still needs some polish. Revamped and redesigned, Yale’s Assure Lock ...

Yale and August Home have each brought several smart locks to market over the years. When Yale's parent company Assa Abloy acquired August in late 2017, we wondered what it meant for the future of ...

I ditched smart locks, and I don't regret it.

Yale has added Apple HomeKit support to its smart locks, launching a plug-in module that gives remote control to your iPhone or iPad. The Yale iM1 Network Module plugs into models from Yale's Assure ...

The Yale Assure Lock 2 series has integrated Bluetooth and Apple Home support, but the real magic comes from its swappable networking modules. There’s one for Z-Wave, one for Wi-Fi, and one for Matter ...

Yale announced the successor to its highly rated Assure Lock SL today, unsurprisingly named the Yale Assure Lock 2. The second-generation lock is sleeker, smaller, and “smarter” than its predecessor.

Back in October 2015, Yale and Nest announced plans to collaborate on a lock called Linus. That project never made it to market, but the lock giant and the Google-owned smart home company have ...

The Matter-over-Thread smart lock promises “seamless integration” with Google Home, but can work with Apple Home and Amazon Alexa, too. The Matter-over-Thread smart lock promises “seamless integration ...

Add "getting into your house" to the list of things you won't be able to do if you lose your phone, thanks to Yale's fancy new NFC-controlled lock. The touch-screen locks use a companion app on an NFC ...