Given the smoke from wildfires smothering the West Coast, I've been fighting a three-day migraine. And yet every time I fall asleep I dream about Nvidia's decision to purchase ARM for $40 billion, which was formally announced Sunday. (The Wall Street … [Read more...]
Everything you want to know about Project CHIP
The Zigbee Alliance this week offered — nine months after announcing it was forthcoming — an update on Project Connected Home over IP, an effort by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, and others to create some kind of interoperability standard for the … [Read more...]
Podcast: Manufacturing trends during the pandemic
This week on the IoT podcast we begin by talking about what the widespread adoption of ultrawideband chips in phones could mean for the IoT. From there, it's on to Google's always-listening software update, humans coming back into the QA loop, and … [Read more...]
NXP opens a window into how ML algorithms work
As we place more decision-making on machine learning (ML) algorithms, companies are investing in technologies that let algorithms "show their work" so that we can avoid errors. I wrote about this need back in January for IEEE Spectrum, and this month … [Read more...]
Podcast: Wink is a bad boyfriend and what about Wi-Fi HaLow?
This week's show starts off with Wink's new pricing plan (although it feels less like a plan and more like watching a toddler trying to chase a soccer ball.) After that, we talk about Wemo's decision to address a known security issue by pushing users … [Read more...]