SpaceX plans to offer its Starlink Direct to Cell service to LTE phones, starting with texting in 2024, and adding voice, data, and IoT device support in 2025
what you need to know Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica : SpaceX details Starlink-for-phones plan, launching in 2024 Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Starlink's satellite cell service is set to launch in 2024, b...
Raspberry Pi 5 launches with a 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 chip, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for a 4GB model
The Raspberry Pi 5 has an entirely new image processing pipeline with improved image quality, and of course makes use of libcamera to expose this new functionality. X: Luke Weston / @lukeweston : Some...
Google plans to end support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system on April 8, 2024, continuing to drop products outside of Google Home
but there's a happy ending for users Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica : RIP to Dropcams, Nest Secure: Google is shutting down servers next year Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet : Google announces the end of multiple Ne...
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, providing SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims over 90% of the US population can now access the public network
It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
Amazon rolls out the Matter smart home standard over Wi-Fi to 17 Echo devices, including Echo Dot (5th Gen) and Echo (4th Gen), for users with Android phones
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Amazon introduces Sidewalk Bridge Pro by Ring, a dedicated bridge device for farms and other nonresidential settings, capable of relaying data up to five miles
A new, dedicated Sidewalk bridge will bring farms, factories and other nonresidential zones online with Amazon's long-range, low-power IoT network.
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip
16MB of flash is great for storing models and buffering data, and WiFi/BT is super helpful for collecting data during development. Thoughtful product design 💙 https://twitter.com/... @mayermakes : loo...
Twilio debuts an app for frontline workers, a free 1:1 video connection toolkit called Twilio Video WebRTC Go, and an IoT service to help keep devices updated
Qualcomm unveils the 212 LTE modem chip for IoT devices with a focus on minimal power consumption, available by the second half of 2020
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Microsoft's Azure Sphere, which includes custom IoT silicon and a Linux-based OS with a matching cloud service announced in April '18, hits general availability
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