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OK, so we don't have a flying car yet, but this is possibly even better: The Internet of Beer

Killer IoT app finally arrives: Keg-tracking tech to tackle light-fingered miscreants

23 Apr 17:19 | 34

South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software

Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit

08 Apr 17:03 | 48

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB

And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn

08 Apr 02:45 | 1

Bad news for automakers: That fire at the Renesas chip plant was worse than expected

Estimate of damaged fab equipment revised upwards by 54%

29 Mar 14:46 | 18

That's a bit harsh: Lenovo adds 2 new toughened boxen to ThinkEdge edge computing line

Feeds growing market for edge kit with gear rated for temps below freezing

02 Mar 12:16 | 9

Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed

Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB

19 Feb 23:28 | 107

Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage

Turning smart homes into dumb ones

03 Feb 19:04 | 79

Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger

Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report

26 Jan 16:22 | 56

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking

You might want to wash the rolling pin first

22 Jan 10:32 | 164

Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released

AOSP effort could help bring GUIs to industrial, IoT, embedded gear

21 Jan 18:58 | 22

Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button

Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops

19 Jan 10:20 | 122

Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones

Er, we mean 'distinguished', 'seasoned', 'battle-tested'

12 Jan 16:03 | 44

Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out

No new hobbyist projects from January, everything deleted the following year

17 Dec 14:35 | 48

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

Ring, Echo owners get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality

24 Nov 20:46 | 115

Vodafone launches platform that promises to play nicely with dusty legacy IoT kit

What untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold?

24 Nov 15:43 | 4

Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck

Secure coding, identity management, patching, configuration controls, what madness is this?

18 Nov 20:51 | 20

Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears

What happens when you mix up the wood and metal screws provided for installation? Heeeeat

11 Nov 13:00 | 71

Rise of the Machines

Are you seeing this, Amazon? British military steps up robot tech tests with drone capable of carrying 60kg payloads

Aerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach

05 Nov 17:01 | 28

Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts

It was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker

12 Oct 21:21 | 9

Canalys Forum 2020

Why is IoT locked in 'proof-of-concept hell'? Stakeholders don't talk to each other, and return on investment is hazy

Private equity funding stalls amid COVID-19

09 Oct 16:30 | 16

Popular

Vivaldi update unleashes the 'Cookie Crumbler' to simply block any services asking for consent (sites may break)

Plus: Browser sends Google's FLoC straight to the blacklist

Stealthy Linux backdoor malware spotted after three years of minding your business

'RotaJakiro' now on infosec world's radar, its impact has yet to be determined

Microsoft demotes Calibri from default typeface gig, starts fling with five other fonts

None of them are Comic Sans, or likely to provoke similar passion

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

Cloud revenues growing by over 30 per cent, bring in 13 per cent of all Bezos bucks

Billions in data protection lawsuits rides on Google's last-ditch UK Supreme Court defence for Safari Workaround sueball

Biggest data protection case for years teeters on brink

BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw

Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles

Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss

Goodbye, Mr Chips

Appeals court nixes online blueprint sharing ban on 3D-printed 'ghost guns'

Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so

Known software issue grounds Ingenuity Mars copter as it attempted fourth flight

NASA chose not to re-install OS and live with a 15 percent failure rate

Mayday! Mayday! Microsoft has settled on a build and Windows 10 21H1 is inbound

Makes good on its promise to inflict News and Interests on older versions

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Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind'

01 Oct 18:33 | 84

Burning down the house! Consumer champ Which? probes smart plugs to find a bunch of insecure fire-risk tat

Yep, plugs. The things that pick up electrickery from the wall

01 Oct 07:57 | 70

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Right, we own cloud, shipping, what's next? The home

28 Sep 22:35 | 59

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare

16 Sep 13:02 | 61

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban

Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears

10 Sep 17:47 | 20

Keeping them for a rainy day? Arm decides against spinning off cloudy IoT businesses to parent Softbank – report

Right as the Japanese mega-corp seeks to flog the Brit CPU design house

26 Aug 07:56 | 1

MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up

That's a spicy meatball

19 Aug 15:33 | 11

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

Failing mega-group discovers again it didn't buy the right biz

16 Jul 06:34 | 72

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

Insider suggests company doesn't charge enough in royalties to satisfy Japanese giant

14 Jul 13:48 | 48

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners

10 Jul 08:30 | 58

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores

07 Jul 21:08 | 1

Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'

HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction

24 Jun 05:54 | 27

Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode

Collection of bugs, dubbed Ripple20, sink widely used TCP/IP stack

17 Jun 05:04 | 27

Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops

Add that to the £790k wasted on Xmas 2018 shutdown investigation

15 Jun 12:00 | 65

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

22 May 11:15 | 37

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

21 May 09:55 | 68

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