Home Assistant tries with a new hub: The campaign for Home Assistant Amber is now live. For $149, customers can buy a Raspberry Pi computer that is pre-loaded with Home Assistant's software and several radios including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee. … [Read more...]
What Biden’s giant executive order means for the IoT
On July 9, President Biden issued a mammoth executive order (EO) focused on increasing competition that included everything from bringing back net neutrality rules to asking the Food and Drug Administration to investigate cheaper pharmaceutical … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for June 26, 2020
How IoT can contribute to sustainability goals: The Industrial IoT Consortium has taken a look at the ways connected devices can help reach the UN's sustainability goals, and I must confess, I wasn't prepared for this paper to be as good as it is. … [Read more...]
Podcast: A deep dive into NIST’s new privacy framework
This week's show features Chris Albrecht, editor in chief of The Spoon, as a guest host, which means there will be a review of a connected kitchen gadget — in this case, a connected smoker from Traeger. We kick off the show discussing the FTC's … [Read more...]
Podcast: Resideo’s smart home strategy explained
We kick off this week's show with a new smart bed from Tempur-Pedic before immediately disagreeing about Google's use of gesture control in the upcoming Pixel 4. From there we talk about Amazon's Ring business and what makes us most uncomfortable … [Read more...]