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Camera support could be the boost Matter needs

The Matter smart home standard is adding cameras to its latest spec. It’s finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras. The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support…

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online. His proposal: use 🙂 and 🙁 as…

How to Go Paperless in 9 Steps

You promised yourself you’d digitize every last receipt, document, and paper record. But the trick to getting rid of paper is to not worry about being perfect.