#matter

#matter

I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely on iPhones and Apple Home for control: the much-loved Starling Home Hub has been discontinued. In a message on its website, Starling said it can no longer manufacture the hub due to "rapidly rising costs of doing business for small US-based product companies like us (most significantly, tariffs the US government charges us to obtain the components we need to build our product)."

The new Doorbell Camera G400 is only available for wired installations, and works with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video for secure cloud-based recordings and facial recognition. The 2k sensor promises "head-to-toe" video capture, alongside motion, package, vehicle, animal, and person detection. It can be powered by a PoE cable or traditional low voltage power supply. The Camera G510 is Aqara's first battery-powered outdoor camera.

First off, packaging for two unannounced bulbs appeared on Amazon, with a Matter logo prominently displayed on the box. While Hue devices have been capable of connecting via Matter using the Hue Bridge as a middleman, they've never supported the protocol directly. That's in part because Matter only works via Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Thread; Hue has been a Zigbee and Bluetooth-only ecosystem for years.

The 2025 Made by Google event featured some well-known stars and highly anticipated devices, but one moment caught my eye more than others. An overproduced video showed Formula 1 driver Lando Norris on a cozy couch talking to Gemini, showcasing what the voice assistant with generative AI can do to replace Google Assistant. To his right, a metal side table held a single thing: an unknown smart speaker through which Norris communicated with Gemini.

According to physicists' best current theories, matter and its counterpart, antimatter, ought to have been created in equal amounts at the time of the Big Bang. But antimatter is vanishingly rare in the universe, raising questions about their behaviors that could explain this discrepancy.

Matter and antimatter mirror each other in all respects but electric charge; physicists are excited by small differences in their behaviors. Recently, observations at the world's largest particle collider revealed a new class of antimatter particles breaking down differently than matter counterparts. This discovery contributes to the quest to understand why our universe consists of matter as opposed to an equal balance with antimatter, a situation suggested by early universe theories.

The $129.99 G410 video doorbell supports HomeKit Secure Video, has various connectivity options, and features advanced mmWave radar for accurate presence detection.