Image: Philips Hue The Philips Hue Bridge is now Matter certified. Although parent company Signify hasn’t announced anything yet, the Hue Bridge was published in the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Matter certification database early Thursday morning, just as the Matter launch event kicked off in Amsterdam. The listing confirms that the Hue Bridge will support Matter…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Illustration: The Verge This week, Amazon announced that it would open up its entire catalog of streaming music to Prime subscribers instead of the limited, downsized library they’d previously had access to. The number skyrocketed from 2 million songs up to 100 million. On its face, that sounds like great news. Who wouldn’t want more…
Image: Connectivity Standards Alliance The smart home is entering a new phase of interoperability, and these are the first product announcements Continue reading… Read More
Tuca and Bertie driving in a car. | Image: Adult Swim Adult Swim swooped in to bring Lisa Hanawalt’s Tuca & Bertie back from the dead following Netflix’s move to cancel the animated series in 2019 after just one season. After spending two seasons on its new network, though, Adult Swim is following in Netflix’s…
Welcome to Versus. It’s been a while, but we’re back to pitting our favorite tech and gadgets in a head-to-head battle to determine the pros and cons of each. For our first episode, we’re diving straight into the Google Pixel Watch and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5. Wear OS 3 is a work in progress,…
The latest generation of the Eve Motion is gaining Matter support next month. Thanks to its forward planning and early adoption of Thread, smart home device maker Eve System will be among the first companies with Matter devices. It’s making a free update available to its Thread-enabled Eve Energy smart plug, Eve Door & Window…
The life-changing magic of adopting a decade-old technology. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I’ve used every new flagship phone from Apple, Samsung, and Google this year, and they’re great! But they’re also boring. They’re impressive feats of engineering and software smarts, but they’re mostly incremental upgrades. And none of them has…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images/Getty) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a company that makes price-setting software for apartments and nine of the nation’s biggest property managers formed a cartel to…
Enlarge / Possible Long March 5B reentry locations lie anywhere along the blue and yellow ground track. Areas not under the line are not exposed to the debris. (credit: The Aerospace Corporation) The Chinese rocket that will fall back to Earth in a few days is equivalent in size to two semi-truck trailers, and as…
Do your students ever imagine themselves as a pilot, video game designer, environmentalist, or surgeon? STEM professionals work in nearly all industries and for a variety of organizations. In their everyday lives, people with STEM backgrounds engage in investigative and diagnostic experiences to seek solutions to real-world problems and enhance technological innovations—sharing their exciting findings…