This week's podcast starts off with IBM's decision to stop selling facial recognition software (we recorded before Amazon made a similar announcement) and then shifts to a discussion on neuromorphic computing. From there we discuss Lutron's new … [Read more...]
How Understory builds better weather insights
Weather data and insights is a huge business. IBM paid an estimated $2 billion for The Weather Company in 2015. In 2013, in the agriculture world, Monsanto purchased Climate Corporation for $930 million to get better weather data for crop insurance. … [Read more...]
The stocks I care about for the IoT
Every year or so I take a look at the publicly traded companies I track from an earnings perspective to see which firms belong in the pack and which don't. I figured that you guys might wonder which companies I monitor, as either indicators of IoT … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for August 17, 2018
This is bad news: Security researchers from IBM have taken a deep dive into several products aimed at the smart city and found that it's possible to exploit them to issue false emergency alerts. For example, hackers could use available sensors to say … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for July 27, 2018
Lenovo’s Smart Display arrives: At the January 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Stacey and I were both wowed by Lenovo’s Smart Display. If a Google Home and an 8- or 10-inch touchscreen tablet went on a Tinder date, this would be the likely outcome. … [Read more...]