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Broadcom buying VMware could create an edge infrastructure and IoT empire

Comment Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit

Edge + IoT26 May 2022 | 8

Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months

AA-battery-sized biological photovoltaic cell touted as ideal for IoT applications

Edge + IoT16 May 2022 | 91

Intel taps Scale Computing for low-power edge platform

Intel Vision NUC NUC. Who's there?

Edge + IoT11 May 2022 |

AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud

Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster

Edge + IoT06 May 2022 | 2

IBM secures DWP contract worth up to £2.1m for 6 months of cloud services

UK government department extends 11-year relationship following legacy application challenges

Edge + IoT03 May 2022 | 8

AWS fixes strange clunks in its on-prem data-crunchers

Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management

Edge + IoT28 Apr 2022 | 1

Meet Moeco, Ukrainian-led biz using IoT trackers to follow supplies into invaded land

From COVID-19 chaos to Russia's war, startup CEO opens up

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2022 | 9

MegaChips takes aim at edge AI in US with ASIC program

Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise

Edge + IoT26 Apr 2022 |

Arm to IoT devs: Go faster with our pre-made chip subsystems

In addition to cloud service, Arm also puts out its fastest Cortex-M CPU design yet

Edge + IoT26 Apr 2022 | 5

Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets

Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off

Edge + IoT22 Apr 2022 | 60

IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb

CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile

Edge + IoT19 Apr 2022 | 81

Microsoft inks satellite deal to push edge computing, software in orbit

Pop quiz: you've got your own edge computer in space. What do you do with it?

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 1

Microsoft, NXP unveil Arm-based Windows 10 IoT Enterprise experience

Cramming a full Windows desktop into a teeny tiny space

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 4

Google's on-prem edge gear to challenge AWS Outposts

Web giant's racks and appliances now generally available

Edge + IoT04 Apr 2022 |

Will this Mobileye IPO fund Intel's comeback plan?

x86 giant will keep majority ownership of autonomous car tech wing

Edge + IoT07 Mar 2022 | 2

Alibaba smart electric vehicles now in mass production

Joins Xiaomi and Huawei in making EVs, but IM L7s not available on e-commerce sites yet

Edge + IoT07 Mar 2022 | 2

OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks

Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10

Edge + IoT03 Feb 2022 | 2

January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint

Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows?

Edge + IoT27 Jan 2022 | 6

Edge computing set for growth – that is, when we can agree what it is

Analyst predicts double-digit percentage uptick in '22

Edge + IoT17 Jan 2022 | 13

Planning on buying a new motor? Chip shortages set to hit UK carmakers this year and next

Here in my car, I feel safest of all...

Edge + IoT06 Jan 2022 | 13

Popular

Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay

Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

On Call It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts'

DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers

Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw

Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16

A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have

Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op

A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat'

Millions of people's info stolen from MGM Resorts dumped on Telegram for free

Meanwhile, Twitter coughs up $150m after using account security contact details for advertising

Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses

Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase

Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data

Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC?

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022

I don't think it's going to happen, I don't think it's going to happen... It happened

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming

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Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

Opinion IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

Edge + IoT29 Nov 2021 | 84

Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist

Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation

Edge + IoT15 Nov 2021 | 92

Behold, Eclipse's open-source software defined vehicle project

Microsoft is involved. What could possibly go wrong?

Edge + IoT28 Oct 2021 | 17

Executive exodus from Intel depth and tracking tech arm RealSense continues

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz

Edge + IoT21 Oct 2021 |

Celonis and Software AG target IoT and streaming process mining as firms grapple with data overload

Newcomer specialist and elderly data integration generalist make their pitches

Edge + IoT06 Oct 2021 |

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

Project wins £50k from government

Edge + IoT22 Sep 2021 | 23

Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like

Making sense of blurry lines

Edge + IoT21 Sep 2021 | 11

Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown

Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man

Edge + IoT15 Sep 2021 | 81

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

There's no council tax infringement a Brimstone missile can't punish

Edge + IoT10 Sep 2021 | 69

EU to formally probe Nvidia's $54bn takeover over British chip designer Arm – report

Hot on heels of 'significant concerns' from the UK

Edge + IoT27 Aug 2021 | 28

European Commission airs out new IoT device security draft law – interested parties have a week to weigh in

Mirroring UK, US efforts to crack down on cheap 'n' cheerful internet gadgets

Edge + IoT23 Aug 2021 | 13

Edgy: HPE's first message from the International Space Station to Microsoft's Azure? 'hello world'

Supercomputing above the clouds

Edge + IoT19 Aug 2021 | 10

Will it bend? That is the question: Arm boffins boast of first flexible 32-bit chip

Plastic-backed TFT part positioned as perfect for the Internet of Things

Edge + IoT21 Jul 2021 | 18

Pub landlords on notice as 'Internet of Beer' firm not only pulls pints, but can also clean the lines

El Reg hacks selflessly volunteer to taste-test before and after

Edge + IoT23 Jun 2021 | 52

UK product safety regulations are failing consumers online, in the IoT, and … with artificial intelligence?

So the National Audit Office found in report on the Office of Product Safety and Standards, anyway

Edge + IoT17 Jun 2021 | 16

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what

Edge + IoT10 Jun 2021 | 73

In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams

Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind

Edge + IoT09 Jun 2021 | 29

Need some chips? The Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 is heading to a channel near you

40k units now, but 'serious volume' to arrive after the summer

Edge + IoT01 Jun 2021 | 18

Sony makes a play for edge compute chores with smart sensors

$18bn investment plan also calls for 160 million entertainment customers to become a billion

Edge + IoT27 May 2021 | 3

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

Edge + IoT23 Apr 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT08 Apr 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT08 Apr 2021 | 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%

Edge + IoT29 Mar 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT02 Mar 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT19 Feb 2021 | 107

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

Updated Turning smart homes into dumb ones

Edge + IoT03 Feb 2021 | 79

Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger

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

Edge + IoT26 Jan 2021 | 56

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

Something for the Weekend, Sir? You might want to wash the rolling pin first

Edge + IoT22 Jan 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT21 Jan 2021 | 22

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

Updated Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops

Edge + IoT19 Jan 2021 | 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'

Edge + IoT12 Jan 2021 | 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

Edge + IoT17 Dec 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT24 Nov 2020 | 115

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

What untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold?

Edge + IoT24 Nov 2020 | 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?

Edge + IoT18 Nov 2020 | 20

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

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

Edge + IoT11 Nov 2020 | 71

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

Rise of the Machines Aerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach

Edge + IoT05 Nov 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT12 Oct 2020 | 9

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

Canalys Forum 2020 Private equity funding stalls amid COVID-19

Edge + IoT09 Oct 2020 | 16

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'

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2020 | 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

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

Edge + IoT28 Sep 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT16 Sep 2020 | 62

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

Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears

Edge + IoT10 Sep 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT26 Aug 2020 | 1

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

That's a spicy meatball

Edge + IoT19 Aug 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT16 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT14 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT10 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT07 Jul 2020 | 1

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

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

Edge + IoT24 Jun 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT17 Jun 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT15 Jun 2020 | 66

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

Edge + IoT22 May 2020 | 37

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

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

Edge + IoT21 May 2020 | 68

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

Build Lots of previews and coming-soons, but is it too little, too late?

Edge + IoT21 May 2020 | 8

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies

Please phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities

Edge + IoT04 May 2020 | 48

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin

Ubiquitous consumer kit maker EOLs netcam. Oh, AND the cloud services that make it work

Edge + IoT29 Apr 2020 | 49

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Video Somewhere in your phone, something is blowing out candles on a cake

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2020 | 45

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

Plans to connect and observe all the things as-a-service, from low-Earth orbit, while building 500 sats a year

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2020 | 22

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away

Edge + IoT20 Apr 2020 | 19

The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again

Stay of execution granted after customer 'feedback'

Edge + IoT15 Apr 2020 | 4

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2020 | 52

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh?

Edge + IoT02 Apr 2020 | 5

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare, latest real-world analysis reveals: Unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk

Edge + IoT11 Mar 2020 | 38

Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger

Audio gear maker drops 'recycle mode' aka 'e-waste mountain candidate'

Edge + IoT06 Mar 2020 | 46

Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal

'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite'

Edge + IoT02 Mar 2020 | 99

Dear makers of smart home things. Yeah, you with that bright idea of an IoT Candle. Here's an SDK from Amazon

Updated Management software for smart devices to ease entry into ecosystem

Edge + IoT26 Feb 2020 | 12

Hey, remember Microsoft's IoT Linux gear? After two years, Azure Sphere is finally here

Internet of Security is the name of the game, instead of that other 'S' word

Edge + IoT24 Feb 2020 | 5

Ring in the changes: Mandatory two-factor authentication, login alerts, targeted ads opt-out after punters voice privacy gripes

Smart-home kit slinger does the right thing... under commercial duress

Edge + IoT19 Feb 2020 | 30

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Spindly thing claimed to stay airborne for a year with 15kg payload

Edge + IoT17 Feb 2020 | 76

Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info

Updated And yes, Facebook is involved, as ever

Edge + IoT28 Jan 2020 | 41

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Punters can still run old and new gear on same network, for now

Edge + IoT24 Jan 2020 | 60

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Updated Planned obsolescence strikes again

Edge + IoT21 Jan 2020 | 278

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Surely only a matter of time before the Matrix has you?

Edge + IoT15 Jan 2020 | 30

Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage

This Internet of Things in the cloud is working out so well, so, so well, so well

Edge + IoT09 Jan 2020 | 46

Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat

CES Platform makeover declared a 'total joke' by internet activists

Edge + IoT07 Jan 2020 | 43

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

The bad news: You may have to buy all new kit if you want things to work

Edge + IoT18 Dec 2019 | 104

Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear generates easy-to-crack keys

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study

Edge + IoT16 Dec 2019 | 18

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

Exclusive From 'boy genius' to 'oh boy'

Edge + IoT03 Dec 2019 | 188

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