Carriers have kicked off the world’s biggest mobile phone tradeshow with calls for an “investment friendly framework” to fund rollouts of next-gen 5G network technology and level the playing field with Internet giants. “We need a new mindset,” argued Telefonica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete López, giving the first keynote of the morning here at Mobile… Read More
Category: Internet of Things
AT&T names Atlanta, Dallas and Waco first of 12 US cities to get 5G wireless
AT&T wireless announced on Tuesday the first cities to get its 5G network. The carrier plans on installing 5G in twelve cities by the end of 2018 and on top of the list is Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas and Waco, Texas. The remaining cities will be announced at a later date.
Several carriers have been trialing 5G networks for sometime. AT&T says this rollout will be based on the 3GPP… Read More
These are the first cities to get AT&T’s mobile 5G
Internet speeds are about to get way faster in many U.S. cities.
AT&T announced on Wednesday the first locations that will receive its new mobile 5G network. The company says a dozen cities will receive the new, lightning-fast internet including …
Ultrasound could waken a sleeping smart home
The home of the future, we are assured, will be swarming with tiny sensors: security cameras, carbon monoxide detectors, speakers and everything else. Few need to be running all the time — but how do you wake them up when they’re needed if they’re off in the first place? Ultrasound. Read More
Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung have all been working hard to create their own standard to control all the connected devices around your home. Mozilla just announced that anybody can now create an open gateway to control the internet of things. The organization also confirmed that it is still working on a set of frameworks and open standards so that we don’t end up with an internet… Read More
The internet of dildos is here, and it’s vulnerable as hell
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F705418%2F663f7c6c-cc72-4e51-bad6-5e2a54c99894.jpg)
When your internet-connected lightbulb gets hacked, a university gets DDoS’d. But when the same thing happens to your internet-connected vibrator? Well, let’s just say the ramifications are a tad more personal.
Welcome to the wild, wonderful, and oh-so vulnerable world known to security researchers as the internet of dildos. A subdomain of the internet of things, IoD encompasses the bevy of connected sex toys adding a little digital spice to our love lives — just maybe not the kind of spice anyone had in mind.
More about Cybersecurity, Hackers, Sex, Sex Toys, and Internet Of Things
View More The internet of dildos is here, and it’s vulnerable as hellTwo Sonos One speakers now cost $349 – the same as one Apple HomePod
Sonos is offering a special limited deal for its new Sonos One smart speaker, which works with Amazon’s Alexa right now, and is gaining support for Google Assistant in a future update: You can buy two for $349, which is the same price as one of Apple’s HomePod Siri-enabled speakers. This is likely not a coincidence.
Individually, the Sonos One retails for $199, so you get a $50… Read More
Kuzzle is building the backend for the internet of things
Meet Kuzzle, an all-in-one backend solution for connected devices and beyond. The French startup is giving you a scalable solution so that you don’t have to develop everything from scratch yourself. Think about it as Firebase but for different use cases.
Before Kuzzle, the French company had been working on all sorts of web and digital projects since 2001. They realized that they kept… Read More
This company made a way prettier version of the Amazon Echo Show
The market is full of awesome smart devices. But when it comes to looks, many of them are hardly inspiring.
But it doesn’t have to be that way, as demonstrated by Brilliant Control, a 2018 CES Innovation Award winner. Brilliant is a sleek, futu…
This smart credit card has a cellphone antenna inside
Your credit card is about to get a lot smarter.
SEE ALSO: The best tech of CES 2018
Dynamics Inc. and Sprint announced at CES 2018 a reprogrammable payment card that can be used for a bunch of different accounts: debit, credit, loyalty, and any…
Ford taps Qualcomm to ensure cars can talk to everything else
Ford and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership at CES 2018 on Tuesday to work together on cellular vehicle-to-everything (C2VX) tech, designed to validate and ensure a smooth rollout for the connective communication tech that’s going to help cars connect up to things like smart traffic lights, street signs, bikes, roads and more. Cellular connectivity is already poised to be a… Read More
This cute little gadget will provide digital protection for your smart devices
Heads up: All products featured here are selected by Mashable’s commerce team and meet our rigorous standards for awesomeness. If you buy something, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.
Remember the good ol’ days before the internet, when nothi…