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Smart homes get Quirky with Wink hub + connected devices
This week’s Smart Living roundup features INSTEON smart home devices hitting Microsoft retail stores, Quirky’s serious efforts in smart home market, and GE’s newest smart bulb. Insteon now available in Microsoft retail stores Earlier in June Insteon launched its apps for devices running Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8, offering exclusive features such as Visitor ...
New features and funding bolster Smart Infrastructure
This week’s Smart Infrastructure roundup features expansion goals and funding for a fresh crop of automation and analytics companies. Puppet Labs expands automation offering IT automation software company Puppet Labs introduced the Puppet Supported Program earlier this week. The program allows customers to extend the benefits of automation across their data center, speeding application ...
Fullnode launches ‘adopt a node’ to help keep Bitcoin up and running
There’s a new open source, non-profit project that aims to keep the Bitcoin network running smoothly and secured. To do so, it wants people to help by sponsoring nodes to accomodate the growing number of Bitcoin users in the world. Dubbed Fullnode, the project aims to get as many full nodes running as it possibly ...
Jersey bids to become the world’s first ‘Bitcoin Isle’
While Bitcoin has been embraced by millions of enthusiasts around the world, it’s a little known fact that about 927 people own the majority of Bitcoins in circulation today. But since the cryptocurrency is pseudoanonymous, it’s quite hard to tell who these people are and where they’re from. Though Bitcoin use is now increasing thanks ...
Meet Max and Bob, robots to keep buildings safe and secure
This week’s Smart City roundup features robots that take care of your building environment, and a smart telepresence that puts you in the right place at the right time. AtSite’s Max robot At the IBCon/RealComm Conference, in Las Vegas, NV, AtSite, a company that specializes in smart building solutions, introduced Max, a robot that ...
Wearable tech and wireless data to significantly grow in 2018
This week’s Smart Health roundup features a report on the future of wearable tech, wire-free smart earphones to help you reach your fitness goal, and biometric company that’s flush with new funding and patents. Wearable tech data to significantly increase in coming years Cisco has released its Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data ...
Can Bitcoin Jesus deliver you to the promised land?
Are you tired of paying taxes? Don’t you wish you could just move somewhere where the government can’t get their hands on your money? Well, now it’s possible, if you’re prepared to put most of your savings into Bitcoin. Roger Ver, ex-U.S. citizen, ex-convict, millionaire investor, early Bitcoin investor, self-described libertarian, and someone who’s now ...
Spectrum legislation could put connected cars in danger
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a legislative proposal that could potentially hinder vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, a collaboration effort to make unified charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs), and a mobile operator’s push to connect more vehicles to the Internet. Spectrum legislation may hinder V2V communication Car manufacturers have spent millions on technology to ...
Smart World Weekly: Smart cups, jackets, roads + more
This week’s Smart World Series features Google’s automation service, a smart cup that knows if you’re drinking Coke or Pepsi, what smart cities need to thrive, and solar roads that powers houses. For those who missed this week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world. ...
Smart tunnels and solar roads pave the way to the future
This week’s Smart Infrastructure roundup features a smart tunnel and solar roads paving the way to the future. Smart tunnel advances infrastructure construction Engineers from Cambridge University have turned a portion of the old London Post Office tunnel into a smart one by placing new sensors that are able to measure disturbances coming from ...