There’s good news if you own a Yale smart lock. Yale and August lock brands (both owned by Assa Abloy) announced a collaboration that upgrades Yale’s existing smart locks with August’s software via a ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Yale has been making smart locks for years now, but this week, it’s finally ...

Yale and August are no stranger to the smart lock; both companies have done various versions of it before, often with the assistance of third parties like Google's Assistant or Amazon's Alexa. Today, ...

Resistance to kick-in as sold is how well the lock survived increasingly forceful impacts using the hardware it comes with. The Yale Premier Single Cylinder YH82 is part of the Door Locks test program ...