Episode 381: Alexa and Qualcomm embrace ambient tech
This week’s show kicks off with our discussion of several announcements from Amazon’s Alexa Live developers’ conference held Wednesday. Alexa is getting several features as part of the launch of the M...
21 Juli 202253min
Episode 380: Here’s what we think with Wink on the blink
This week’s show comes to y’all from Paris and the English seaside, with Kevin and I wondering exactly what happened to Wink. We also offer options for the few remaining holdouts on the platform. We t...
14 Juli 202258min
Episode 379: Lock down your smart home’s data
This week we continue discussing privacy and data protection with a focus on the smart home. I’d like to see a feature that lets us turn on privacy as needed on our devices, but Kevin doesn’t think th...
7 Juli 20221h 1min
Podcast 378: Welcome to the industrial metaverse
It’s been a minute since we’ve discussed the metaverse, but this week we cover Siemens’ deal with Nvidia to create the metaverse for the industrial IoT. It’s part of several announcements this week fr...
30 Juni 202258min
Episode 377: Why there were 56 OT vulnerabilities this week
This week we cover the Ericsson mobility report that offers some stats on cellular IoT connections, including the surprising nugget that we won’t see 4G/5G connections surpass 2G/3G connections until ...
23 Juni 202257min
Episode 376: Senator calls out video doorbells … again
This week’s show kicks off with another look at Ring’s potential to become a surveillance tool, this time prompted by a letter from Senator Ed Markey who wants Amazon to answer some questions. We then...
16 Juni 202255min
Episode 375: Arduino gets $32 million for enterprise IoT
This week’s show is an exercise in controlled chaos, as I am once again quarantined in a hotel room (this time with my teen). Kevin and I discuss Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and Apple’s cl...
9 Juni 202250min
Episode 374: Peekaboo offers privacy for the smart home
This week’s show kicks off with our favorite topic: bringing context into the smart home. This time it’s iRobot and its new operating system that aims to bring the smart home together. From there we d...
2 Juni 20221h
