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Upgrade Your Home Security For Less With One of These Smart Camera Deals
Securing your property doesn’t have to involve large angry animals or excessive padlock use if you make the most of smart home security.
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RIP Android Things, the Smart Home Platform We All Forgot Existed
While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Android Things — a platform Google launched in 2018 for the Internet of Things. And although Google said last year it was shifting Android Things away from the smart home, it’s now officially pulling the plug on…
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This Hacked Coffee Maker Demands Ransom and Demonstrates a Terrifying Implication About the IoT
It’s no secret that the Internet of Things is full of insecure gadgets. All you need is one high profile incident to be flooded with terrifying headlines about how everything from robotic vacuum cleaners to smart sex toys can be hacked to spy on you. However, apparently some devices like Smarter’s IoT coffee machine can…
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Alphabet’s Scrapping Its Smart City Dreams
For the past two years and change, Google’s smart-city-centric sister company Footpath Labs has put millions on the line to build what it called a model smart city in downtown Toronto. The planned neighbourhood, called “Quayside,” was supposed to be nothing short of utopic, boasting everything from affordable housing to its own power grid—but like…