Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for July 31, 2020
Cloudflare is building the next-gen architecture for the IoT (and edge computing in general): I last spoke with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince in October 2018, when the company launched its edge computing platform, Workers. This week, the company … [Read more...]
Podcast: Amazon’s Alexa Developer news and 5G’s next wave
This week's show digs into the announcements made during Amazon's Alexa Live event held Wednesday. We explain the Connect Kit hardware and Alexa skill upgrades and try to offer a bit of context about what it means for users and developers. After … [Read more...]
Amazon’s Alexa event makes Alexa smarter, chattier and puts it in more places
Amazon is taking Alexa, its digital assistant, and making it smarter, more ubiquitous, and easier to talk to. At its Alexa Live developer event held online Wednesday, the retailer laid out 31 news announcements that broaden Alexa's capabilities and … [Read more...]
Ideas to keep data from the home, in the home
Last week, I asked a lot of questions about the network of surveillance we are building with the IoT, how much of it was coming to light in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, and how we seem to be building it out further to handle the … [Read more...]
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