This week’s release of Matter 1.1 is the result of the collective effort of hundreds of companies and individuals who have gathered as…
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Apple-backed ‘Matter’ home automation standard launches
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announced this week the release of the Matter 1.0 specification and the opening of the Matter certification…
Apple-backed Matter smart home standard delayed until fall 2022
Matter, the new smart home interoperability standard being developed by Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and others, has again been…
Apple job listing suggests it is preparing new ‘HomeOS’ operating system
Apple is working on a new operating system known as “HomeOS,” a job listing seems to have revealed ahead of the company’s WWDC next week.…
Huawei touts new ‘HarmonyOS’ in attempt to overcome U.S. blacklisting
Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled long-awaited details of its HarmonyOS software, an operating system attempt targeting a central role in a…
Unpatched Philips Hue smart bulbs lets hackers attack your network
New research from Check Point shows how business and home networks can be hacked from a lightbulb, an unpatched Philips Hue smart bulb, to be precise…
You can now preheat your oven with your Apple Watch
You now can preheat your oven with your Apple Watch thanks to Home Connect, a dynamic digital ecosystem created to connect home appliances…
FBI warns on Internet of Things
Last week we talked about smart TVs—and how that built-in Internet connection can allow manufacturers, streaming services, and even hackers an open door into your home….
How Apple is already part of Industry 4.0
Apple calling the iPhone “revolutionary” was an epic understatement….
Why we need Apple’s HomeKit-enabled routers
One of the many iCloud enhancements Apple is attempting to bring to market in 2019, the idea is that these protect your accessories with a firewall at router level…
Apple’s Home app takes a step back in iOS 13 beta
Apple’s Home app has regressed in usability in iOS 13 beta.
Ikea’s Tradfri line is a good, low-priced entry point into Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem
Ikea could be how Apple finally gets its system into the mainstream…
63% of people find smart home devices ‘creepy’
Smart home devices are ‘creepy’ according to the majority of people who own them…
Apple working on new Tile-like hardware tag; plans replace Find My Friends and Find My iPhone with unified app
Apple is working on a new app that’s going to replace the Find My Friends and Find My iPhone apps…
IDC: Apple expected to gain traction in smart home market
The global market for smart home devices is expected to grow 26.9% year over year in 2019 to 832.7 million shipments…
IDC: Lighting, security cameras to drive smart home device sales
Sales of smart home devices will surge this year thanks to the hot categories of home monitoring and security…
Hackers infiltrate California family’s Nest surveillance camera, send warning of incoming North Korea missile attack
Laura Lyons was preparing food in her kitchen Sunday when the lazy afternoon took a turn for the absurd…
Apple is struggling to stop a ‘skeleton key’ hack on home Wi-Fi
Even with all Apple’s expertise and investment in cybersecurity, there are some security problems that are so intractable…
Apple loses ground to Amazon in smart home deals with homebuilders
As Amazon and Apple race to get consumers to buy smart devices…
Apple needs more than HomePod to play in smart home
When Apple announced in 2014 that it was creating the HomeKit for iOS devices…
How Apple’s HomeKit broke my digital heart
When Apple first announced HomeKit in 2014 I hoped it would be the unifying platform…
Why Amazon can crush Apple in the smart home market or something
On Tuesday after the close, it was announced that Amazon.com, Inc. will buy Ring…
Woz explains why he no longer agrees with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking on Artificial Intelligence threat
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking have issued some terrifying predictions…
Here are the best HomeKit-enabled smart home products announced at CES 2018
From smart showers to smart faucets and smart switches to smart buttons, CES 2018 has been jam-packed…
Ikea’s smart home dares to make sense
The ‘smart home’ has not yet distinguished itself. Sure, you might dim your lights…
Apple iPhones are about to get even more useful
An upgrade to Apple’s mobile iOS operating system due this fall will enable iPhones…
Apple has proven me wrong about HomeKit
Apple has made major changes to HomeKit that accelerate the standard’s trajectory…
Bluetooth SIG announces mesh networking capability, ideally suited for IoT solutions
The new mesh capability enables many-to-many (m:m) device communications and is optimized for creating large-scale device networks…
Apple’s iOS 11 unlocks a future for Internet of Things
With its move to open up near field communication (NFC) support for developers in iOS 11…
Why your next Echo command should be: ‘Disconnect me from the internet’
Dr. Herbert Lin, one of the nation’s pre-eminent thinkers on cybersecurity policy…
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son: ‘Brain cells’ in chips will surpass neurons in humans next year
There isn’t such a thing as Moore’s Law for human brains…
Hidden backdoor discovered in Chinese IoT devices
Researchers at Trustwave have uncovered a backdoor in IoT devices from a Chinese manufacturer…
Oops! ‘Smart’ IoT teddy bear leaked 2 million parent and kids message recordings
A company that sells ‘smart’ teddy bears leaked 800,000 user account credentials — and then hackers locked it and held it for ransom…
Apple HomeKit is lags the competition and is in danger of falling even further behind
Apple announced its smart-home control system, HomeKit, in 2014 at its annual developers conference…
U.S. FTC sues D-Link for failure to secure webcams, routers from online attacks
D-Link is under fire from the Federal Trade Commission for not doing enough to secure…
Smart everything: Apple’s next product transition
Apple is working with emerging technologies as it seeks to explore future disruptive opportunities…
The best products for building a smart home with Apple’s HomeKit
Apple’s introduction of HomeKit in iOS 8 two years ago was in many ways what we had been waiting for in the home automation world…
DDoS attack: Apple’s HomeKit for a safer smarthome
Today we are building the Internet of Things, and the recent massive DDoS attack…
Why AI’s massive disruptions may be just what you’re looking for
Get ready, people: It’s not that far off…
iPhones don’t matter anymore
As the world waits to see if Apple’s business really has stopped growing because the momentum of iPhone sales…
Apple’s open source Swift will open the door for HomeKit
Apple’s decision to make Swift open source has the potential to intensify development…
Beleaguered BlackBerry to buy Good Technology for $425 million
Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd. said on Friday it will buy rival mobile software provider Good Technology Corp…
