July 7, 2026
IKEA has launched its biggest smart home push ever: 21 new Matter-compatible products, rolling out through 2026 — and it may be the most important smart home news...
The two biggest names in the smart home replaced their assistants’ brains this year. Amazon’s Alexa+ and Google’s Gemini for Home are LLM-powered, conversational, and dramatically more capable...
CES 2026 made one thing obvious: the smart home industry has stopped fighting over standards and started competing on intelligence. These were the announcements that will actually reach...
Prime Day 2026 (23–26 June) delivered discounts of up to 70% on smart home gear — and, more usefully, revealed exactly how smart home pricing behaves. If you...
The Connectivity Standards Alliance finalised Matter 1.5 on 20 November 2025, and its headline feature landed in 2026 like a slow-motion earthquake: cameras, video doorbells and intercoms are...
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