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What Is Matter? We Explain the Smart Home Standard (2025)

The ideal smart home seamlessly anticipates your needs and instantly responds to commands. You shouldn’t have to open a specific app for each appliance or remember the precise voice command and voice assistant combination that starts the latest episode of your favorite podcast on the nearest speaker. Competing smart home …

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12 Ways to Upgrade Your Wi-Fi and Make Your Internet Faster (2025)

Whether you’re working from home, binge-watching Netflix, or streaming your gameplay on Twitch, there’s no such thing as too much bandwidth. Even if you have gigabit fiber mainlined into your router, everyone could use help getting faster internet around the house. It doesn’t matter if you have the best possible …

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How to Choose a Router (2025): Tips, Technical Terms, and Advice

Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E devices certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance must support WPA3, but it’s not exclusive to the new standard. You can find Wi-Fi 5 routers with WPA3 support, and some manufacturers are rolling it out onto older devices via firmware updates. It is also backward compatible. Most …

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How to Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor With Your Mac (2025)

Mirroring duplicates what’s on your iPad to your Mac. You’ll see the same content on both screens. This is useful when sharing your screen or streaming content to another device like your TV or external monitor. You can also enable Screen Mirroring right from your iPad by swiping down on …

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