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Home items are getting smarter and creepier, like it or not

Devices enable companies to gather details about consumers' daily lives

Whirlpool Corporation and Yummly team up to create smart cooking appliances through a series of over the air updates to both product software and the Whirlpool and Yummly Guided Cooking brand apps at the CES Unveiled at CES International, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

smart home items — Whirlpool Corporation and Yummly team up to create smart cooking appliances through a series of over the air updates to both product software and the Whirlpool and Yummly Guided Cooking brand apps at the CES Unveiled at CES International, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

NEW YORK — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels.

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