Matter and Thread are touted as game-changers for your smartphone, and the standards are already starting to deliver on lofty ...

Smart home gear is getting more common, but the words used to talk about it can get confusing. You might see things like Matter, Thread, or Zigbee on boxes or in setup menus and wonder what they mean.

Talking about the speed of an IoT network, latency is what matters, not throughput. We see the delay between a button press and a light turning on, not how much data gets passed around. Click to ...