Home Automation

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Apple officially cancels AirPower; says it couldn’t meet hardware’s ‘high standards’

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Apple announced last week that it has canceled its AirPower charging mat over concerns related to its inability to achieve “high standards” for the...

Eero’s acquisition by Amazon creates a financial catastrophe for investors and employees

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Last month Amazon announced that it acquired the mesh Wi-Fi router company, Eero for $97 million. However, this deal, which sounded full of potential, struck...
IoT (Internet of Things)

Mozilla re-launches Project Things as WebThings, an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices

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Yesterday, the Mozilla IoT team announced that ‘Project Things’ is now out from its early experimental phase with a new name, ‘WebThings’. Mozilla WebThings...

Google to kill another product, the ‘Works with Nest’ API in the wake of...

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Update: Included Google’s recent plan of action after facing backlash by Nest users.   At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, Google announced that it is...
IoT (Internet of Things)

Mozilla releases WebThings Gateway 0.9 experimental builds targeting Turris Omnia and Raspberry Pi 4

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In April, the Mozilla IoT team relaunched Project Things as “WebThings” with its two components: WebThings Gateway and WebThings Framework. WebThings is an open-source...
Amazon

Amazon’s hardware event 2019 highlights: a high-end Echo Studio, the new Echo Show 8,...

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At its annual hardware event 2019, Amazon unveiled an avalanche of Alexa-powered products. It introduced a high-end Echo Studio, the new Echo Show 8,...

Researchers reveal Light Commands: laser-based audio injection attacks on voice-control devices like Alexa, Siri...

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Researchers from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the University of Michigan released a paper on Monday, that gives alarming cues about the...