Nova Labs, the company behind the decentralized Helium IoT network, has acquired FreedomFi, a company trying to build a decentralized 5G network. Kevin and I share our doubts about the value of a decentralized 5G network and question how this might … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for August 17, 2018
This is bad news: Security researchers from IBM have taken a deep dive into several products aimed at the smart city and found that it's possible to exploit them to issue false emergency alerts. For example, hackers could use available sensors to say … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, January 20 2017
Want this news summary in your inbox every Friday? Subscribe to my newsletter. What's your home's IT budget? Josh Elman over at Greylock has a fairly intuitive post related to consumer spending on IT devices. He proposes that most households have … [Read more...]