The Matter and Thread standards are supposed to ensure that a huge range of smart home devices can work seamlessly together, mirroring the benefits offered by HomeKit compatibility. But this isn’t the ...

The Matter 1.4 update makes good on some old promises from the smart-home tech standard. The smart home industry’s universal technology standard, Matter, will get a significant update that could make ...

Schneider Electric has joined the Thread Group Board of Directors, taking a governance role in the Thread wireless networking protocol for smart homes and buildings. The move positions the company to ...

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 ...

Thread is a low-power, low-bandwidth mesh networking protocol for IoT technologies developed by Thread Group. Thread Group is an alliance established in July 2014 that includes Google's Nest Labs, ...

Besides the A5 chip, backlit touch surface, support for stereo speaker setups, Ultra Wideband capability and $100 price tag, there’s something else about the new HomePod Mini that you might not have ...