Matter and Thread are touted as game-changers for your smartphone, and the standards are already starting to deliver on lofty promises.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With this week’s announcement that the smart home standard Matter has finally launched and the possibility that ...

Smart home tech can get confusing. If you have ever set up smart lights or a voice assistant, you may have run into problems getting everything to work together. Matter is a new standard that is ...

At CES 2023, we had the pleasure of talking to Chris LaPré, who is the Head of Technology at CSA (Connectivity Standards Alliance), the organization behind the newly-launched Matter networking ...

The specification for Matter 1.0 was released on Tuesday—all 899 pages of it. More importantly, smart home manufacturers and software makers can now apply for this cross-compatibility standard, have ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. How Matter works, when it’s coming, what you’ll need to use it, and how it integrates with Alexa, Apple Home, ...

The massive growth of the smart home market has led to problems with competing standards and protocols. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than 130 million households owned a smart home ...

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