Android and Google Nest are getting support for Matter, a new universal smart home standard

Smart home devices have been a thing for a long time and we've seen them from many different companies, including from the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung. They're meant to blend inside your home and enhance it with voice assistants, AI, or simply integrate with other devices in your household. But there hasn't been an actual standard for them, making interoperability between these smart devices something of a mixed bag sometimes. Now, though, there is: it's called Matter, and Google officially announced that both Android and Google Nest devices will be supporting it.