In times of increasingly frequent cloud outages, arbitrary changes in app control by manufacturers, and opaque data collection, locally operated smart home solutions are gaining importance. A central platform in this field is Home Assistant.
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In times of increasingly frequent cloud outages, arbitrary changes in app control by manufacturers, and opaque data collection, locally operated smart home solutions are gaining importance. A central platform in this field is Home Assistant.
Matter 1.5 adds cameras, irrigation sensors, shading controls and energy management, boosting interoperability and expanding features for modern smart homes.
A major Cloudflare outage has taken down key parts of the internet, revealing once more how vulnerable a centralized web has become. Originally designed to be resilient and decentralized, today’s internet increasingly depends on just a few providers—creating massive ripple effects when one of them fails.
Jeff Bezos startet mit Projekt Prometheus ein hochfinanziertes KI-Startup für industrielle Anwendungen. Mit 6,2 Milliarden US-Dollar Kapital und Co-CEO Vik Bajaj positioniert sich das Unternehmen im globalen Wettbewerb um wissenschaftliche und industrielle KI.
Homey introduces the Matter Bridge app, allowing users to bring non-Matter devices—including Zigbee, Z-Wave, Infrared and 433 MHz products—into Matter-compatible platforms. This update lets users keep their existing hardware while integrating with Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, SmartThings and Home Assistant. The new app strengthens Homey’s position as a universal smart home hub and significantly improves overall interoperability.
Norwegian IoT company IXT, founded by Raymond Berntsen and Henning Solberg, enters the global market as a new full MVNO with its own core network. In an exclusive WeSpeakIoT interview, the founders explain how IXT aims to simplify global IoT connectivity with secure, scalable, and transparent solutions for industries like smart cities, e-mobility, logistics, and energy.
In San Francisco’s Mission District, the nine-year-old cat “KitKat,” known as the mascot of “Randa’s Market,” was struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle operated by Waymo. The company confirmed the incident and expressed its “deepest sympathy.”
The global colocation data center market is experiencing massive growth – and Europe is emerging as one of its key drivers. According to a recent analysis by DC Market Insights, the global market volume is expected to reach around USD 332 billion by 2035.
AT&T and Thales have launched a new eSIM solution based on the GSMA SGP.32 standard, enabling secure, automated IoT connectivity for global device fleets without physical SIM replacement — a key step toward scalable, flexible IoT deployments worldwide.
When the Amazon cloud region us-east-1 failed on October 20, 2025, numerous online services and IoT applications worldwide were affected. EMQ Technologies (EMQ), operator of the IoT data platform EMQX Cloud, reported only limited impact. The company explained its resilience to the widespread cloud outage in its own blog post.
