It’s been nearly a year since the first portable DNA sequencers were shipped to giddy researchers waiting to be untethered from the refrigerator-sized machines in their labs. Now a desktop version by the same maker, Oxford Nanopore, is heading their way. The company’s grand, long-term vision is to build an “internet of living things.” The →
It’s coming, it’s really coming, and it’s going to be huuuuugggge! That was the message of the tech company executives keynoting the annual Open Compute Project Summit, held this week in San Jose, Calif. They were talking about data. A tsunami of data. More data than anybody—even in an era in which 300 hours of video →
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html Another story on bad IoT security… Posted from WordPress for Android →
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/the-absolute-horror-of-wifi-light-switches/ Example of IoT home automation gone wrong in many ways! Posted from WordPress for Android →
Raspberry Pi 3 to sport Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE – first photos emerge A Raspberry Pi 3 with onboard Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) support has emerged today. The Model B Raspberry Pi 3 will be the first in the family of tiny cheap-and-cheerful ARM-powered computers to feature builtin wireless networking. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/26/raspberry_pi_3/ Posted from →
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/02/24/the-internet-of-things-has-gone-too-far/? Funny IoT comic Posted from WordPress for Android →
https://sc5.io/posts/how-amazons-iot-platform-eliminates-servers-and-databases/ Nice introduction how to use Amazon IoT services. Posted from WordPress for Android →
Samsung has confirmed that its “smart TV” sets are listening to customers’ every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets. The company revealed that the voice activation feature on its smart TVs will capture all nearby conversations. The TV sets can share the information, including sensitive data, →
The US intelligence chief has acknowledged for the first time that agencies might use a new generation of smart household devices to increase their surveillance capabilities. As increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet and to one another, the so-called internet of things promises consumers increased convenience – the remotely operated thermostat from Google-owned →
Implantable medical devices usually have to trade smarts for size. The hardest thing to shrink isn’t the processor. It’s actually the radio, says Blaauw. Last week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Blaauw and fellow engineers David Wentzloff and Yao Shi showed a prototype injectable radio with a volume of just →