The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes Apple, today released the Aliro 1.0 specification. Aliro is a new standard aimed at improving the way that smart door locks work with smartphones ...

The Aqara U400 uses UWB to unlock your door before you even reach for the handle. It’s the hands-free Home Key experience ...

Better known for its smart TVs than its smart home products, TCL has nonetheless impressed us with its highly affordable smart locks. At CES today, the company announced an upgraded version of its TCL ...

Level has been building smart locks that feel like they were made for Apple users since the very beginning, and the new Level Lock Pro might be its most exciting upgrade yet. I have been testing it ...

Abstract: Lock contention occurs when multiple threads or processes try to access the same lock simultaneously, often causing performance degradation in software that runs concurrent threads. In this ...

The new Matter-over-Thread-powered Yale lock replaces the Nest x Yale Lock and will work with Google Home, as well as Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings. The new ...

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Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

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Abstract: Locks play a crucial role in multi-threaded applications, offering an effective solution for synchronizing shared resources. Yet, mishandling locks and threads can result in contention, ...