When Google announced its "end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer" for the Gboard phone keyboard two weeks ago, I was initially excited. That's because speech recognition can now run locally on Gboard, even without a network … [Read more...]
How we moved an IoT code project from a Raspberry Pi to Google Cloud
Last year, as an amateur (and I mean very amateur) developer, I created a simple Python app using Twilio APIs to run our IoT Podcast Hotline voicemail. Since the service has to run all the time, I decided to use an inexpensive Raspberry Pi as the … [Read more...]
Cox plans to deploy 500,000 IoT sensors
Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable TV and broadband company, has gotten into the internet of things in a big way with an initial deployment of 45,000 sensors for its parent company's automotive auction business. That deployment is … [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...]