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Welcome to Tech News briefing.

It's Monday, November 25th. I'm Belle Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

Even home automation lovers are shying away from internet-connected home appliances like smart

ovens and smart dishwashers. While many smart devices do offer useful features, we'll find out why some homeowners are choosing to keep their appliances off the Wi-Fi.

And then, autopilot has arrived on the Ukrainian battlefield. At least tens of thousands of drones that can autonomously carry out their final attacks are being

mass produced by suppliers for Ukraine's war effort against Russia.

Our Ukraine bureau chief James Marsen tells us how these robots might impact the war.

But first, why do smart appliances continue to be so dumb? Internet-connected ovens,

microwaves, and dishwashers have yet to add much value to homeowners. A WSJ report last year

found that only around half of the buyers of smart home appliances from two major manufacturers actually keep them

connected to the internet. For more on why this is and why manufacturers continue to link their

appliances to Wi-Fi, we're joined by our deputy mansion editor, Chris Frieswick, who wrote about

this for WSJ's home onerous column.

Chris, what have the manufacturers touted as some of the benefits of their smart appliances?

Whirlpool washing machines had a feature called assign a task that basically you have to have an

app on your phone to run this washing machine. And when the

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