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Seattle-based smart home company Wyze put a new camera on sale Tuesday morning, and the pitch is simple: a motorized indoor camera that can see in every direction but physically hides its lens when you tell it to stop looking. The Indoor…
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IoT
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Tech Desk — August 25, 2026 — The satellite IoT market is entering a growth phase that will reshape how connected devices operate beyond the reach of terrestrial networks. New research from Omdia projects satellite IoT connections will…
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PHILADELPHIA — Comcast has flipped the switch on a feature that turns its Xfinity gateways into whole-home motion detectors, rolling out Wi-Fi sensing to millions of existing routers at no extra cost starting August 18. The update…
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OSLO — Nordic Semiconductor's nRF93M1 smart modem module has reached general availability with Global Certification Forum compliance, giving developers a single hardware design that can scale from regional pilots to worldwide deployments…
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Matic, the U.S. robotics startup founded by former Google Nest engineers, has launched Matic Cues — a voice and gesture control system that lets owners direct their robot vacuum by speaking to it or simply pointing at a mess. The feature…
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IoT
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IoT The architectural shift from centralized cloud to distributed intelligence is redefining what's possible for connected devices — and 2026 is the year the transition moves from pilot to production. The Evolution: From Cloud Dependence…
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Matter 1.6 Launches: NFC Commissioning and Joint Fabric Arrive for Smart Home The Connectivity Standards Alliance announced Matter 1.6, the latest version of the smart home interoperability standard, at Unify 2026 in Austin Texas. The…
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IoT
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NXP Semiconductors has started sampling a new microcontroller family built to drag industrial gear off aging serial wiring and onto standard IP networks. The MCX A5 line wraps a Cortex-M33 core, a single-pair Ethernet interface and…
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IoT
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A single telecom operator just proved that the next generation of low-cost cellular IoT can run on a live 5G network today. e& UAE, the flagship carrier of the e& group, said on Thursday it had completed the first live-network test of…
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Apple is preparing its biggest move yet into the smart home. Reporting rolled up by 9to5Mac on August 15 lays out a product roadmap that runs from refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K units this fall to a wall-mountable display hub, a…
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IoT
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Dysphoria has turned a large number of everyday internet-connected devices into a potential attack network. The botnet is linked to roughly 296,000 compromised devices, placing routers, cameras, gateways, and other connected equipment at…
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Silicon Labs has announced the successful deployment and operation of a 200-node Matter-over-Thread validation network, demonstrating the scalability, reliability and performance of Matter for large-scale smart building, commercial IoT and…