Samsung and Google make it easier to share your smart home with Matter

Samsung reveals how Matter’s multi-admin feature will work with SmartThings. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ahead of its annual developer conference, Samsung has revealed details about how Matter smart home devices will work on its Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets. The company announced you’ll soon be able to use Galaxy devices to…

Samsung Knox Matrix plans ‘private blockchain’ security for appliances, phones, and TVs

Samsung’s Knox Matrix is supposed to secure your devices through “multi-layered monitoring.” | Image: Samsung Samsung’s rolling out a new way to keep smart devices secure, and it apparently involves putting them on the blockchain. At the Samsung Developer Conference today, the company announced the Samsung Knox Matrix, a not-yet-released security solution that will include…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands details on Texas crypto mining energy consumption

Getty Democrats are pressing Texas energy regulators to disclose how much energy crypto mining companies consume from the state’s vulnerable power grid nearly a year after it failed during an extreme winter storm. In the Wednesday letter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and six other Democrats pressed Texas grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas,…

The Polestar 3 SUV will cost $83,900 “loaded,” goes on sale Q4 2023

Enlarge / The Polestar 3’s bodywork has been optimized in the wind tunnel. (credit: Polestar) After a sublime-but-limited-production GT and a stylish fastback sedan, Polestar is launching its third vehicle, the aptly named Polestar 3. It’s a performance-oriented SUV on the larger side of the spectrum, built on a new EV-only platform developed together with…