What's inside Google's Home Hub? This week, Google unveiled the Google Home Hub device, which has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 7-inch display. It also updated its Google Home software to let users control smart home devices visually from both their phone … [Read more...]
Helium’s big innovation may be decentralizing certification
A San Francisco company is trying to apply the blockchain to network connectivity for the internet of things. And unlike a cryptocurrency, the startup wants to use the blockchain as a way to certify both products that work on the network and the … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for March 9, 2018
Haier's business transformation takes Six Sigma to the new era: For anyone trying to figure out what digital transformation will actually mean for their business, bookmark this article by Zhang Ruimin, chairman of Chinese appliance firm Haier. In … [Read more...]
Internet of Things Podcast: The block-less blockchain
On the latest Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbotham interviews Chris Matthieu, founder of Computes. They discuss why IoT needs decentralized computing and why a new type of blockchain makes the most sense. They dig into Computes, blockchain … [Read more...]
Industrial IoT meets the blockchain with Xage
I don't think I could make a hotter sounding startup at the end of 2017 than Xage (pronounced Zage). The company, which was founded in mid-2016, has redesigned security for the industrial internet of things using blockchain and other decentralized … [Read more...]