Singapore branches out onto internet of trees
LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents
Edge + IoT28 Nov 2022 | 15
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IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud
Exclusive Big Blue follows in footsteps of Google in pulling plug on services
Edge + IoT15 Nov 2022 | 18
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MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory
Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching
Edge + IoT05 Oct 2022 | 6
Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage
Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts
Edge + IoT30 Sep 2022 | 42
IoT is not just for business – how do we make it work for the public sector?
Civica highlights why it’s time to change your perspective on the Internet of Things in new report
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Microsoft's metaverse is for training autonomous drones
Project AirSim can allegedly run 'millions of flights in seconds'
Edge + IoT19 Jul 2022 | 5
Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025
Countdown begins on cameras, sensors no longer working
Edge + IoT12 Jul 2022 | 173
Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge
Analysis What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold?
Edge + IoT27 Jun 2022 | 14
AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been
Edge + IoT24 Jun 2022 | 10
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone
GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch
Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 42
DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly
Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 24
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion
'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
Smart homes are hackable homes if not equipped with updated, supported tech
People forget IoT gadgets aren't dumb appliances. gear needs to be fed security, bug fixes
Edge + IoT01 Jun 2022 | 112
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 | 9
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
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Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment
Inkjet is the future, claims Japanese printer maker
Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture
You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot
'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'
Workers ignoring calls to get back in swivel chair. Plus: more UK orgs sign up for 4-day work week
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC
Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing
RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project management
Obit Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte
Windows Server domain controllers may stop, restart after recent updates
Microsoft outlines a workaround while pulling together a fix to LSASS memory leak
How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens
Who, me? How to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate, or get a promotion: see above.
Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months
Meanwhile reports say more ad buyers are staying away
Telecoms networks could provide next-gen GPS services without the need for satellites
Decimeter-level uncertainty, sub-nanosecond time synchronization – but what happens when there's no signal?
Singapore branches out onto internet of trees
LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents
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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
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
Analysis 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
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