Belkin sold Phyn to an investor group led by the Propety Brothers’ Jonathan Scott for $24.9 million
Aqara also announced a custom feature called Advanced Matter Bridging that will add Aqara triggers and scenes as virtual occupancy sensors and plugs (respectively) to third-party Matter platforms. This allows you to use them in automations on those platforms.
Aqara is becoming a full fledged Matter platform with support through version 1.4 coming this month. That means it’s further along than Apple, Amazon, and Google.
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“Smart home has transformed with Alexa+” says Panos. This is the new smart home widget for Echo Show
Panos Panay says the rearchitecture of Alexa is now complete
Jassy just said the new Alexa is very “remarkable” 😉
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is leading the event, which he says will be 70 minutes of AI news
Let’s see if “Remarkable Alexa” is finally ready!