Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and seen all three names ...

Thread is a protocol designed to connect smart home devices in a wireless mesh network. It works much like Wi-Fi but requires less power. With Thread, devices from any manufacturer can create a ...

Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...

Meta's Threads is pulling further ahead of Elon Musk's X on mobile, based on recent estimates from analytics firm Similarweb, Forbes reports. In the first stretch of January, Threads averaged roughly ...

Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform that launched in 2023 as a challenger to the Elon Musk-owned X, for the first time beat X in global daily active mobile users for the month of October, ...

Meta today announced that the Threads social network is gaining support for disappearing posts. "Ghost posts" are Threads posts that will be automatically archived after a 24-hour period. Replies to ...

If you use Threads, you’ve probably seen topic tags, which users can add to posts when they want to reach more people interested in that same subject. Today, Meta is combining topic tags with its ...

Threads is now offering Facebook users to sign up for the app using their existing profiles. Meta says this will help deliver personalized content recommendations based on users' preferences. Until ...

If you're active on Threads, you've probably noticed that posts with links don't do very well with the app's recommendation algorithm. This is especially noticeable if you're a publisher, creator or, ...

Since deciding to stop using X (it’s no longer the Twitter I knew and loved for a long time), I’ve been testing out various alternatives. And for me, there are two clear front-runners: Bluesky and ...

Meta is now using the Threads.com domain name for its X competitor Threads. Credit: Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Threads, Meta's alternative to X, formerly Twitter, had almost ...