Guests use an app to gain secure access so hosts can go out about their lives. Legal and ethical battles aside, lots of people are finding great success in listing their available spaces on Airbnb.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Airbnb’s new winter 2023 update adds a smart lock door code integration for hosts so guests can easily find it ...

Leaving a key for your Airbnb guest will soon be a practice of the past, as long as you have an August smart lock installed. On Tuesday, June 26, the smart home company announced additional features ...

If you have an extra property, a convenient way to facilitate rentals is through no-contact options like Airbnb. More specifically, you don’t have to do much, especially if you outfit the property ...

There are many reasons not to buy a smart lock, but high on the list is the risk of getting remotely locked out of your shit. For hundreds of customers using Lockstate’s smart locks, that potentiality ...

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It’s a cliche that inventing good software is easy, while creating good hardware is almost impossible. The reason seems simple enough: Software can always be updated, but hardware can’t change once ...

Update, June 27th: An Airbnb representative reached out to CNET, stating that Airbnb did not collaborate with August on this new integration. "We didn't announce this ...

After publication, Airbnb told Gizmodo that August made a promotional video that violated Airbnb brand guidelines. Airbnb has had a partnership with August since 2015, but an Airbnb spokesperson said ...