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DARPA’S Take on the IoT Battery Problem: N-ZERO
The key idea is to reduce power consumption by enabling dormant mode, such that the machine only “wakes up” when prompted by an event of interest.
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Project Natick: Underwater Data Centers
Microsoft wants to build an underwater data center. We take a look at what it would take and how companies stand to benefit.
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OpenFog Consortium Reference Architecture Executive Summary
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Digital Footprint - What Facebook Knows About Me
Protecting your digital footprint is important, so I used a Chrome extension called Data Selfie to find out what Facebook knows about me.
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Disney is Chasing After Nikola Tesla’s Dream
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Smart City Security - Touchscreen Kiosks Get Hacked
An excellent report by Kaspersky Lab exposes several weak points in our smart city technology stack — including hilarious hacks of electronic road signs.
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Verizon Now Playing Catch Up
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Virtual Reality Technology Hasn’t Really Arrived Yet
Virtual reality technology has been slow to take-off, and according to Gabe Newell of Valve, VR might never see mass-adoption.
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Trends in China & Lessons from WeChat
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Machine Learning Application: Predicting Parking Difficulty
This machine learning application from Google is something everyone should be excited about: Google Maps can now indicate parking availability!
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Blockchain Explained - The Basics of Blockchain and How it Might Affect IoT
You've probably heard of Blockchain, but do you know what it is? We share how it works, and talk about what that means for the future of IoT.
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CryptoNets: Neural Networks for Encrypted Data
What are CryptoNets? CryptoNet is Microsoft Research's neural network that is compatible with encrypted data.
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Mood Predicting Wearables
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You’re Being Sold on the Internet
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Alexa Skills Kit Tutorial - Building Custom Skills with Alexa
Build your first custom skill in just 10 minutes (no programming experience required) with this Alexa skills kit tutorial.
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Securing Our Medical Devices
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LoRaWAN and Node-RED Tutorial and Deployment Tips (Part IV)
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Voice: The Gateway to Ambient Computing
This week, we take a closer look at how voice interaction may be the key we need to unlock ambient computing.
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The 2G Sunset and What it Means for IoT
AT&T officially discontinued its service on 2G wireless networks in 2017. As the 2G sunset continues this'll have implications for cellular IoT.
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LoRaWAN and Node-RED Tutorial and Deployment Tips (Part III)
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LoRaWAN and Node-RED Tutorial and Deployment Tips (Part II)
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LoRaWAN and Node-RED Tutorial and Deployment Tips
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Hacking Machine Learning Algorithms, Self-driving Cars, and the Difficulties in Applying Machine Learning in Healthcare
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Reimagining Product Design in IoT, Learning by Playing Video Games, and Mathematical Understanding of Neural Networks
Product design in IoT: Companies so far have largely focused on the things aspect of IoT. It’s time to remind ourselves that IoT becomes useful when...
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Apple vs. Snapchat
Much has been written about Apple’s “controversial” decision to remove the headphone jack and push Airpod headphones to the iPhone faithful.
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Democratizing Machine Learning, Looking at Bots, and Rethinking the Web
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Samsung Acquires Viv, AllSeen Alliance Disbands, and Bias in NLP
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Oculus Connect 3, Differential Neural Computers, and Security Flaws in Connected Medical Devices
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Mirai Botnet Army, Case Against Standardization in IoT, and Equality in Machine Learning
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Neural Cryptography, Treating Phobias and PTSD with VR, and Copycat Manufacturing
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Fighting Off Mirai with Nematodes, Understanding Neural Networks, and Uber’s Self-Driving Trucks
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DeepMind’s One-Shot Learning, Object Recognition with Radar, and Election Fallout on Tech
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IoT Platform Q4 2016 Roundup, VR Powered by Our Minds, and Big Data in Social Sciences
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Intel Dives into AI, Facebook Brings Neural Networks to Your Phones, and Dr. Fei-Fei Li Joins Google
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How to Protect Against Drones
We look at some research and current work in our quest to defend against malicious drones.
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Amazon re:Invent Highlights, Google’s answer to AWS, and Reimagining Smart Cities
Amazon’s re:Invent conference concluded on Friday, and as expected, there were big updates to the AWS portfolio of services.
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Yann LeCun’s Keynote on Predictive Learning, Mixed Reality as Imagined by Magic Leap, and Marc Andreessen’s Thoughts on 5.5 Million Lost Jobs
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Mobile is Eating the World, Adaptive Attention via a Visual Sentinel, and Google’s Great AI Awakening
December 18, 2016: This week in tech and IoT.
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How to Learn React & Redux - Resources and Guide
Trying to learn React, Redux,and other JS frameworks/tools/modules like webpack, Babel, etc. can be confusing, so here's a guide and some great resources.
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Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy
The White House report, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy,” focuses on the economics of AI-driven automation.
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Cellular IoT Explained - NB-IoT vs. LTE-M vs. 5G and More
You can use this well-researched description of each 5G option to better understand the emerging forms of cellular IoT.
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2016 Highlights: IoT, Machine Learning, AI & Automation
From the rise of voice UIs to the Mirai threat, AlphaGo's historic victory to heated debate on automation, here are the 2016 highlights in IoT, AI, and more
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Alexa (Amazon’s OS) Dominates at CES 2017, Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning & 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs
Amazon sold millions of Alexa-enabled devices this past holiday season. In fact, 9x more than last year and many declared that Alexa “stole the show” at CES 2017.
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16 Questions About Self-Driving Cars, CES Highlights from the Show Floor, and Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning
We review Frank Chen of Andreessen Horowitz “16 Questions About Self-Driving Cars.” Covers common questions about autonomous vehicles.
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VR & The Great Unbundling
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Google’s Infrastructure Security Design Overview
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Mathematically Modeling the Rise of Innovation
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What is AutoML? Promises vs. Reality
AutoML company, DataRobot, made waves in the machine learning community last week, raising $54 million. But what is AutoML? Here are the promises vs reality
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How IoT is Used to Stop Poaching Animals
Poaching animals is awful. At current rates, elephants, rhinos, and other iconic wildlife may be gone in our lifetime. IoT companies are trying to fix that.
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Evolution Strategy - OpenAI’s Challenge to DeepMind & Reinforcement Learning
Evolution Strategy, a well-known optimization technique, demonstrated strong performance against typical Reinforcement Learning with less compute needed.
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Brilliant Learning - GE’s Response to Automation
GE has launched Brilliant Learning to transform factories to use big data, IoT, and newer manufacturing methods like 3D printing to increase productivity.
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Sopris: Microsoft’s Solution to IoT Security Problems
Sopris - Here are the 7 properties of highly secure devices and how Microsoft implemented all 7 in low-cost microcontrollers.
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Blockchain Applications - Using Blockchain for Public Data
Blockchain applications in finance are well-known, now public data could also become a great Applications. But is this realistic or just hype?
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Machine Learning Just Made it Really Easy to Break into Your Phone
Machine learning programs can now guess a four-digit pin number with 100% accuracy by the fifth attempt based on the orientation of your phone.
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The Best Adblocker - Using Artificial Intelligence to Perfectly Block Ads
Princeton and Stanford's research has created the best adblocker yet, which may soon change the relationship between advertisers, publishers, and readers.
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Chatbots that Detect and Convey Emotion
A team from Tsinghua University in Beijing just gave chatbots the ability to detect and convey specific emotions, likely accelerating usage of chatbots.
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Google and IBM vs Alexa - The Competition for Voice-Enabled Virtual Assistants Intensifies
Amazon maintains its lead in the voice assistant market, but Google and IBM are making interesting moves to dethrone Alexa.
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The Hajime Worm - Is it the Solution to Mirai or the Next-Gen Botnet?
The Hajime worm is believed to be a work of cyber vigilantism to combat the Mirai botnet and has now infected over 300K devices.
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Data  - The Modern World’s Most Precious Resource
Data is power, and that power can be used for good or bad. Two ride-sharing companies, Didi and Uber, serve as great examples of both.
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Internet of Things World 2017 Recap - 8 Takeaways
If you missed Internet of Things World, here are some things that the IFA staff picked up as top trends discussed at the conference.
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Google I/O 2017 Major Takeaways - From Google.com to Google.ai
Many called Google I/O 2017 "boring". But make no mistake, the tech giant is transitioning from Google.com to Google.ai and preparing for an AI-first world.
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AlphaGo Defeats Ke Jie - The Future of Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
AlphaGo recently defeated Grandmaster Ke Jie at Go, giving us a glimpse at a future in which creativity and artificial intelligence are inextricably linked.
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What is CBRS? - LTE in 3.5 GHz Shared Spectrum and What it Means for IoT
What CBRS spectrum is, why it's an attractive deployment option for cellular and non-wireless operators alike, and how this affects IoT business strategy.
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New Breakthroughs from DeepMind - Relational Networks and Visual Interaction Networks
DeepMind quietly published two groundbreaking research papers, getting machines even closer to emulating human intelligence.
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Platform Wars (Part I): Google AI
Top AI Companies: This article reviews the Big Five (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) tech companies and their recent moves in AI offerings.
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Platform Wars (Part II): Amazon AI
Top AI Companies - Amazon AI, The King of the Cloud. Bezos describes three main ways he envisions AI shaping the direction of Amazon.
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Transformer vs. DeepL: Attention Based Approaches to Machine Translation
Transformer vs. DeepL Machine Translation: Attention-based systems quickly compute an "attention score" to model the influence each word has on another.
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Getting Started with Cloud IoT Core
How to get started with Google Cloud IoT Core: We examine what Cloud IoT Core offers, when you would use it, and share a sample architecture and demo.
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8 Things I Learned about IoT in 2017
Read these 8 real-world lessons learned from moving IoT prototypes to massive deployments. Ask yourself these questions when you're building your product.
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Is IoT Security Finally Getting the Attention of Tech Giants?
A new partnership between Google and Microchip seeks to improve security in IoT devices by establishing both hardware and software root of trust.
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