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open Need some chips? The Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 is heading to a channel near you 18
open Sony makes a play for edge compute chores with smart sensors 3
open OK, so we don't have a flying car yet, but this is possibly even better: The Internet of Beer 34
open South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software 48
By XSV1
open Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB 1
open Bad news for automakers: That fire at the Renesas chip plant was worse than expected 18
open That's a bit harsh: Lenovo adds 2 new toughened boxen to ThinkEdge edge computing line 9
open Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed 107
open Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage 79
By ITMA
open Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger 56
open Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking 164
By DiViDeD
open Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released 22
By Elledan
open Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button 122
open Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones 44
open Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out 48
open Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out 115
open Vodafone launches platform that promises to play nicely with dusty legacy IoT kit 4
By jake
open Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck 20
open Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears 71
open Are you seeing this, Amazon? British military steps up robot tech tests with drone capable of carrying 60kg payloads 28
open Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts 9
By Twanky
open Why is IoT locked in 'proof-of-concept hell'? Stakeholders don't talk to each other, and return on investment is hazy 16
open Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing 84
open Burning down the house! Consumer champ Which? probes smart plugs to find a bunch of insecure fire-risk tat 70
open 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 59
open We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes 62
open Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban 20
open Keeping them for a rainy day? Arm decides against spinning off cloudy IoT businesses to parent Softbank – report 1
open MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up 11
By DS999
open SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers? 72
open Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale 48
By IGotOut
open We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID 58
open Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank 1
open Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home' 27
By O RLY
open Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode 27
open Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops 66
open Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies 37
open Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma 68
open Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail 8
By druck
open Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies 48
open Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin 49
open Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time 45
open Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’ 22
By hoola
open Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft 19
open The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again 4
By big_D
open Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks 52
By jake
open Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair 5
open The Internet of Things is a security nightmare, latest real-world analysis reveals: Unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes 38
open Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger 46
By fobskid
open Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal 99