Episode 341: Smart cities and smart fridges galore
Welcome to the weekly podcast! We’re moving Black Friday to October thanks to chip shortages and shipping delays. Meanwhile, Amazon is working on a smart fridge, Google is trying to use a $10 monthly ...
7 Okt 202155min
Episode 340: Amazon wants you to trust its devices
This week’s podcast is all about Amazon (with a few other stories for variety). We start the show with a rundown of the devices and services Amazon launched at its device drop on Tuesday. We then expl...
30 Sep 20211h 9min
Episode 339: Much ado about privacy and support
This week’s show kicks off with the news of the Raspberry Pi Trading company closing a new funding round of $45 million. We talk about what the Pi Trading company is, how it relates to the Foundation,...
23 Sep 20211h
Episode 338: Wyze comes back from the edge
I need to warn y’all in advance that we don’t discuss Apple news at all this week because nothing really jumped out at us for the IoT. But we did have a lot of other big news starting with Wyze raisin...
16 Sep 202152min
Episode 337: Blast off with IoT in space
This week we kick off the show discussing several smart devices that might provide a modicum of security or comfort in case of weather disasters associated with climate change. After that, we start th...
9 Sep 20211h 1min
Episode 336: Australia’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad surveillance law
We start this week’s show with a look at a new surveillance law in Australia that seemingly obliterates a lot of protections around how law enforcement officials can access data and what they can do w...
2 Sep 202154min
Episode 335: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type
This week’s show starts off with old news that I forgot to tell y’all about last week: The Matter interoperability standard for the smart home is delayed until 2022. We talk about what that means and ...
26 Aug 20211h
Episode 334: SmartThings’ new edge strategy
Welcome to this week’s episode! We kick it off with a discussion of SmartThing’s new focus on the edge with local control and user-derived device handlers. We then dive into four security stories star...
19 Aug 202148min
