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Energous Corporation, a developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks, and ams OSRAM, a global provider of optical solutions have announced a collaboration on a wirelessly powered multi-spectral light sensor for Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA) and vertical farming. The joint solution is based on the multi-channel AS7343 spectral sensor from ams OSRAM and the WattUp PowerBridge

Ultrahuman, a metabolic fitness platform, has raised US$17.5 million (€14.87 million), as it aims to help more than a billion people in the world suffering from a metabolic health disorder. This brings the total funds raised so far to $25mn (€21.24 mn).

For years, women have been held back in their careers for being ‘too nice’ or ‘too family-orientated’, says Annett Polaszewski-Plath, CEO at Interprefy. Being a fully remote company, I’m extremely proud that Interprefy’s team consists of a slight majority of women.

The first all-digital CES event, CES® 2021 one of the largest ever digital tech event. Almost 2,000 companies unveiled next-gen innovation for a better future.

The last decade has seen unprecedented development of the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, enabled by new distributed network technologies. McKinsey estimates that by 2025, the world will own 50 billion networked devices, up 400% from 2010, and contributing US$11 trillion (€10 trillion) to economies.

WEEK IN IoT: It’s been easy to see corporate winners and losers from the global spread of the novel corona virus. Early casualties included airlines and hotel chains, with cancelled flights and bookings, and share prices tumbling on stock markets.

IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) has ushered in a new era of efficiency and intelligence for the manufacturing industry.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has security shortcomings that would shock the world if they were exposed – and if the mainstream media understood them. That’s the startling conclusion that freelance technology writer, Nick Booth has come to.

Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data management company with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 46 million server starts per month, announced the 0.6 release of Hazelcast Jet – the ultra fast, application embeddable, stream and batch processing engine.

Increasingly, local governments around the world are trying to use the IoT to develop smart city applications designed to make their cities greener, safer and more efficient. The IoT’s ability to provide cities with real-time data on natural disasters, crimes, air pollution, traffic and other problems and conditions throughout a city,

As IoT botnet attacks continue to grow in size and effectiveness in 2018, the damage they cause will force the IoT manufacturing industry to add stronger security to their products or eventually result in governments addressing IoT security with regulation, according to researchers at WatchGuard Technologies.

With industry analysts forecasting unprecedented change for the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) industry over the next three years, companies need a highly flexible, open and secure communications foundation with which they can confidently embrace the future.

On Friday evening, NCC Group and Cyber Security Challenge UK ran a competition which saw 25 extraordinary code breaking amateurs from across the UK battle each other to ethically hack common Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including remote controlled cars, CCTV cameras and even children’s dolls.

There is a saying, ‘fast, cheap and good – pick two.’ This appears to apply to the IoT as manufacturers race to get new fast and cheap products to market, but at the expense of security.

Smart devices have arguably made consumers’ lives easier, and as they become more affordable, more of us are investing in the IoT. However, all too often, these smart devices are being manufactured with affordability in mind and security as an afterthought.

The rising popularity of IoT products has resulted in a drastic change in everyday life as people now turn to technology to make their days run smoother and ‘smarter’.