Anki’s inexpensive robot is crammed with smarts: Normally I wouldn’t expect much from a $250 robot, so I’m super impressed by the new Anki Vector. Aside from keeping the cute, emotion-based interactions from its prior robot, Cozmo, with Vector, Anki … [Read more...]
Podcast: Smart stents, surveillance tech and Alexa-powered faucets
This week’s episode begins on a grim note, as Kevin and I discuss the New York Times’ story about how smart home gadgets can become another point of control in abusive relationships. From there we touch on the new Wi-Fi WPA3 security standard and … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 27, 2018
Google loses $621 million on Nest in 2017: Alphabet announced its quarterly results this week, and due to Nest moving from Alphabet back into Google this past February, the company restated its Nest financials for 2017. They were not good. Revenues … [Read more...]
InfluxData and the TICK stack for IoT data streaming
With every advancement in technology we get a new database to get excited about. With the cloud, we started caring about scale, and No-SQL databases rose to the fore. With social networks, graph databases became the hot new thing. And now, with the … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 3, 2017
Ayla raises $60 million: The seven-year-old platform as a service company, which helps businesses bring their devices online, has raised $60 million in funding from Sunsea Telecommunications Co. Ltd. and Run Liang Tai Fund. The money wasn't needed … [Read more...]