Amazon now offers machine learning at the edge instead of in its cloud: Amazon Web Services detailed how customers can use AWS Outposts (which is a service that replicates AWS services from the cloud on a company's own local gear) and Amazon's … [Read more...]
CES 2021: Samsung brings vision, brains and robots to the smart home
At the digital Consumer Electronics Show 2021 on Monday, Samsung introduced its newest products for the smart home. Some come from the automotive industry while others come from a prior acquisition but all are intended to make “a better normal for … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 9, 2020
Here's a privacy-centric way to track employees in buildings: Density is launching a product called Open Area that uses radar sensing to track people moving inside buildings. Density may be familiar to y'all as a company I've covered due to its … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 15, 2019
Amazon takes the smart speaker sales crown in Q3: Amazon Prime Day must have really helped to move Echo devices because, in the third quarter of this year, Canalys estimated Amazon shipped 10.4 million of them. That’s up from the 6.3 million Echo … [Read more...]
Hey Anki, here’s how to shut down with users in mind
And another one bites the dust. Recode reported earlier this week that Anki, maker of the Vector robot I purchased in October, is shutting down. To be honest I'm a bit shocked, especially after learning that Anki had raised $200 million in total … [Read more...]