Published on: 2025-04-19 19:02:00
I love outlet adaptors for HomeKit, but if you still use them to automate lamps, it might be time to switch things up (sorry for the pun). Smart plugs are a great way to get started, but smart bulbs give you more control over the lighting experience and work with overhead lights. With smart bulbs, you can change the color, set different brightness levels, and group them by room or scene. It is an easy upgrade that adds flexibility without complicating your setup. This week, I am looking at the L
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-17 13:44:20
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that proposes a universe built on steps of multiple singularities rather than the Bi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:25:32
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Linkind, a brand of AiDot, has launched an exciting new line of Matter-certified smart lighting products. Available exclusively at Walmart, every purchase also plays a small part in something bigger. At the heart of the collection is the Linkind Matter Smart Light Bulb A19, a full-color smart bulb with adjustable white temperatures and 16 million colors to play with. It’s designed for smart home users who want rich, dynamic lighting without the need for a se
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 03:00:00
Aqara continues to be one of the best smart home vendors for HomeKit fans. This week, the company announced a major update to its Matter integration that will benefit anyone using HomeKit as their primary platform. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework. Earlier this w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 02:23:58
Matter is a modern smart home protocol developed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung to address the issue of smart device incompatibility and security. Designed for seamless interoperability, Matter ensures that supported devices can easily integrate into all major smart home platforms without the need for additional apps or software. We are a member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA-IoT), and our products are currently in the process of being certified to work with the Matter stand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 07:06:23
is a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Aqara is adding support for over 50 new Matter device types, making it one of the most comprehensive smart home platforms in terms of Matter support, alongside Samsung SmartThings and Home Assistant. The company is also bringing advanced bridging to all its Matter controllers, allowing you to integrate Aqara’s many advanced automation features into any Ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 11:11:41
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Samsung’s smart home platform SmartThings now works with Matter 1.4, the latest version of the interoperable smart home standard, adding compatibility with things like water heaters, heat pumps, and solar panels that use the spec. The company has also introduced new smart home automation triggers, as well as a broadcast feature for SmartThings-connected sp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 20:00:19
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Apple Home is finally compatible with robot vacuums, thanks to multiple upgrades -- from Apple, Matter, and robot manufacturers. Apple released iOS 18.4 last week, which includes support for robot vacuums via the Home app. Robot vacuum manufacturers, like iRobot and Roborock, have already released their firmware upgrades for their Matter-compatible robots to support Apple Home. Robot vacuum compatibility for Apple Home was delayed for months after being announced last year as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 23:00:00
The invention of Matter was a grand kumbaya moment for the smart home. Built on the foundations of almost every concept smart home companies had dreamed up — from Apple’s HomeKit to Google’s Thread — the idea was to create a new technology on top of existing ones. One common standard to make it easier for manufacturers to build smart home devices and easier for people to use them, no matter which smart home platform they use. But one protocol was left out of the party: Z-Wave, which is widely u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 05:59:00
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Apple Home is finally compatible with robot vacuums, thanks to multiple upgrades -- from Apple, Matter, and robot manufacturers. Apple released iOS 18.4 yesterday, which includes support for robot vacuums via the Home app. Robot vacuum manufacturers, like iRobot and Roborock, have already released their firmware upgrades for their Matter-compatible robots to support Apple Home. Robot vacuum compatibility for Apple Home was delayed for months after being announced last year as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 10:59:49
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Apple Home is finally compatible with robot vacuums, thanks to multiple upgrades -- from Apple, Matter, and robot manufacturers. Apple released iOS 18.4 yesterday, which includes support for robot vacuums via the Home app. Robot vacuum manufacturers, like iRobot and Roborock, have already released their firmware upgrades for their Matter-compatible robots to support Apple Home. Robot vacuum compatibility for Apple Home was delayed for months after being announced last year as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 02:41:05
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The release of Apple’s iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. The update includes support for controlling robot vacuums and adding them to automations and scenes in the Apple Home app via the Matter protocol. With the official rollout of iOS 18.4, companies like Roborock, iRobot, and Ecovacs are introducing firmware update
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The release of Apple’s iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. The update includes support for controlling robot vacuums and adding them to automations and scenes in the Apple Home app via the Matter protocol. With the official rollout of iOS 18.4, companies like Roborock, iRobot, and Ecovacs are introducing firmware update
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 07:00:00
Following the news that Google is discontinuing its Nest x Yale Lock, Yale has announced a new smart lock that fits into the Google Home ecosystem and is designed to complement Google’s Nest video doorbells. However, thanks to Matter-over-Thread compatibility, the Yale Smart Lock with Matter will also work with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Samsung SmartThings, and any other Matter-enabled smart home platform. It’s an interesting approach for Google, and a sign it’s embracing the openness of the ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 14:16:53
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to think that sharing classified information in insecure channels was a fireable offense — until he got caught doing it himself. Following the stunning revelation from The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg that he'd been added to a national security adviser groupchat on Signal, CNN has unearthed instances when Hegseth went off on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for using a private email server for official communications and deleting the e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 18:16:00
SwitchBot has quietly built a solid lineup of smart home products, including curtain motors, door locks, and robot vacuums. Last week, the company announced plans to expand support for Home Assistant, with more than 45 devices gaining support in the first half of 2025. For Home Assistant users, that’s big news. But for HomeKit fans, the real benefit continues to be Matter support, which helps bring SwitchBot gear into HomeKit in a reliable and easy-to-manage way. Some of my favorite gear Aqara
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 02:30:12
There's a new twist in the hunt for dark matter, the invisible substance believed to make up 85 percent of all the mass in the universe: it may actually be way lighter. In a study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, an international team of researchers propose a new form of the hypothetical substance that's lower in mass compared to other dark matter candidates, which could explain a mysterious phenomenon at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in a region called the Central Molecu
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Various techniques give values for the ratio of the speed of sound c s squared to the square of the speed of light as it varies with isospin chemical potential. NLO χPT: next-to-leading order chiral perturbation theory; pQCD: perturbative quantum chromodynamics; LQCD: lattice quantum chromodynamics; GP: Gaussian proc
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Ikea has registered its first Thread device, a new Matter-supporting temperature and humidity sensor called the “Timmerflotte,” with the FCC, reports HomeKit News. A diagram from the filing, which was spotted by CybermodStudios, shows a circular device that’s powered by two AAA batteries and features a QR code and 11-digit number for Matter setup. The Tim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 07:26:13
I discuss ketamine, and my person experience with it, in more detail here. At recreational doses, ketamine is addictive, destroys the bladder, and is toxic to the central nervous system. Microscopic lesions (including but not limited to so-called “Olney’s lesions”) in both grey and white matter are evident already after three months of high-dose ketamine use. By year three of heavy use, MRI scans of ketamine users often reveal a brain that looks like a mix between multiple sclerosis (white mat
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home app through Matter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support for Matter. (Switchbot first added Matter robot vacuum suppor
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