Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and seen all three names ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The new smart home standard finally arrived this year. But poor implementation, significant ...

Matter promised an end to walled gardens and ecosystem lock-in. It promised to make a smart home device, like a lock, ...

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 ...

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Artificial intelligence can make smart homes smarter, help us manage our days, and even help us plan major life changes. This series looks at the new — and sometimes surprising — ways AI is being used ...

Like many smart home manufacturers, Ikea took its time warning up to Matter, the new standard that aims to unite the big smart home ecosystems. When it introduced its new Dirigera smart hub back in ...

The glue that binds all your smart devices together: That’s the promise of the two-year-old Matter standard, and it’s a compelling one. But the budding Matter protocol still comes with too many rough ...

Last month's Ikea's announcement of more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices felt like a much-needed breakthrough moment for the high-profile smart home standard. If Ikea—a brand with a broad, not ...