I spent a lot of time this week talking about personal assistants thanks to Google finally announcing its operating system for the internet of things (dubbed Android Things) and taking its Weave communications protocol out of developer preview. …

The Orange Chef, a smart kitchen startup that managed to get its connected scale into Williams Sonoma stores and score $1.2 million in funding from Google, has finally closed the book on its hardware business. The company, which made an iPad cover and a connected scale called The Prep Pad…

Roughly 5.1 million Amazon Echo devices have been sold since the product’s launch in Dec. 2014, according to data from the Consumer Interest Research Group. …

In the last few weeks, I’ve had some of the most encouraging discussions I’ve ever had when it comes to security and the internet of things. As part of that, I’ve gathered several ideas about how we improve IoT security. I participated in a discussion about IoT security at the…

Despite the demographic tsunami about to hit with the aging of the baby boomers, few companies are successfully marrying connected devices and elder care. It’s not for a lack of trying. …

Months before Donald Trump became the president-elect of the U.S. someone asked me to do a deep dive into what he would mean for the tech industry. At the time I said I couldn’t do it because Trump didn’t seem to have any deeply held beliefs about technology. Like many…

(This story was originally published May 9, 2016 in my IoT newsletter) After IoT World, the list of companies with an IoT platform has expanded considerably. …

Last Friday’s distributed denial of service attack against a company that provides the equivalent of an address book for the internet has left consumers wondering what to do about their connected devices. …

This weekend it felt like the entire world woke up to the issue of IoT security. Ironically it wasn’t the hacked door locks or threats of a light bulb being taken over that sparked massive conversation and coverage. …