Are you sick of hearing the word edge yet? I am. The tech world is struggling right now to come up with the right way to express a complex shift in how it thinks about computing infrastructure. The result is overuse of the word edge, whereby it means … [Read more...]
The tech world wants to sell you video at the edge
I was in Seattle this week at Microsoft's Build conference, where video was one of the stars of the show. The software company demoed a camera-equipped drone flying over oil pipelines that was using machine learning to recognize oddities in the … [Read more...]
Former AlertMe team rebuilds the smart home platform
Connected devices may offer convenience and new features, but they are also an ongoing source of expense. Because with connectivity comes costs — costs to create a cloud to handle customer data and costs to make constant security and software … [Read more...]
Microsoft’s IoT strategy gives away the edge to sell the cloud
Microsoft's IoT strategy came into sharper focus during the keynote at Microsoft Build Monday. The software company is betting on the cloud, while acknowledging the needs of those at the edge. Microsoft is building tools to link its Azure cloud and … [Read more...]
Swim.ai offers machine learning at the edge
I know I've been writing nonstop about the pendulum shifting back to computing on the device (so-called edge computing) as opposed to in the cloud, and this week's startup profile is yet another example of why this shift is … [Read more...]