Thread Direct looks to solve Matter’s biggest setup headache
…It is built to be secure and private, easy to set up, and widely compatible. Developed by Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung (and others), Matter is an open-source, IP-based connectivity…
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Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI
…But Nanoleaf’s existing customers probably want the company to just focus on innovating its ecosystem and bringing new features and functions to its app. The smart home is undergoing a…
Apple wants Europe to blink
…The company has a history of invoking privacy and security concerns when regulators try to make it open up parts of its famously closed ecosystem. It has already blamed the DMA’s…
First vacuums — then the world
…AI algorithms (the brain), high-speed motors (the heart), and robotic arms (the body). “The high-speed motor is the foundational IP — Yu Hao developed it and now wants to put it…
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
…As part of this new Xbox shake-up, Roanne Sones, corporate vice president of Xbox devices and ecosystem, will be “taking a leave of absence after this summer and will be staying…
My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac
…and took screenshots (but forgot about actually running the benchmark), and it made a Cinebench shortcut that had “Wait for you to run the test” as an actual step. Maybe if developers…
The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement
…While Tim Cook led this period of audio innovation at the venerable computer company, John Ternus oversaw development of the first AirPods, and continues to do so. With Ternus stepping into the…
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users’ ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like…
Got Thread problems? There’s an app for that
…You can export the very detailed data the app generates as a .json file and share it with a manufacturer or ecosystem to help with troubleshooting (or, as I did, feed it…
The AI code wars are heating up
…a tool called GitHub Copilot that watched developers as they wrote code and tried to autocomplete snippets and lines for them. It wasn’t all that good, and it was only a…