Apple seems to be on the cusp of incorporating Thread in many of its new products without having officially listing it in the product specs yet. In 2020, Apple released its first Thread-enabled device ...

The iPhone Air is guarantee to have Thread support, and that's good news for smart homes waiting on Apple's big release. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Thread 1.4 spec arrives today with a slew of updates designed to solve the problems the smart home protocol ...

Ikea wants to massively expand its smart home range, switch from ZigBee to Thread and also control other brand devices via the Matter standard. Ikea wants to massively expand the smart home area of ...

IKEA has entered the smart home market with a focus on the Matter over Thread standard, designed to enhance device compatibility and network stability. Over three months of testing, A Smarter House ...

It’s been more than a year since Ikea’s smart hub got a Matter update, but up until now, the Dirigea hub could only act as a bridge between Ikea devices and existing Matter networks. That’s about to ...

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 ...

The Pixel 10 Pro’s hidden Thread radio is a crucial piece of future-proofing hardware for the smart home. It enables a more reliable and faster connection for smart devices than Wi-Fi, allowing the ...

The WiFi-enabled IoT fad, while still upon us (no, my coffee scale doesn’t need to be on the network, dammit!) has begun to give way to low-power protocols actually designed for this kind of ...