Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Greetings IoT Weekly News Readers!

I hope that you were able to attend the IoTFuse:Conference 2018 event at the convention center on May 3rd. It was another epic event for the IoTFuse organization that I co-founded and I welcome you to attend our meeting this week Thursday on Smart Cities.

Additionally, we found that workshops like the one put on by Lab 651 on Machine Learning were some of the most well attended and will be doing additional rounds of these sessions later in the year.

In this issue, I have selected a number of articles published in the past week that includes everything from announcements at Google I/O to Surveys from Parks Associates that 17% of U.S. Broadband Households Own Both an Internet-Connected Entertainment. This is a reminder that we are still in the early days of this technology!

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News

Eight Ways the Internet of Things Will Change the Way We Live and Work

By 2020, there will be tens of billions of data-spouting devices connected to the Internet. And they're already changing how we live and work. Read on about how Home and Office, Cities, Manufacturing and a number of other verticals are examined.

Google I/O 2018: All the Highlights From Google's Annual Keynote

Bored of writing emails? Gmail is going to do it for you. Use your phone too much? The next Android software will warn you about it. Google announced a lot at its yearly developer conference.

Microsoft On The Move On Day One Build 2018 With Big Edge IoT, AI, And Mixed Reality Expansion

I’m back on the road again attending Microsoft Build 2018 in Seattle, Washington. The company’s annual developer’s conference is always a highlight of the season for me, with developers, partners, press, analysts, and some customers all coming together to hear about the latest and greatest from the tech giant. Read on to learn more..

Sponsor

Expanding Smart Home Solutions: Attend CONNECTIONS in May

Join Google, Intel, Samsung, T-Mobile, and over 650 senior executives at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 22-24 in San Francisco, in an intimate networking environment focusing on innovations to improve the UX and the IoT impact on emerging consumer technologies.

For 22 years, CONNECTIONS™ has been on the cutting edge with industry insights, consumer data, and trends in the connected living space. The 22nd-annual conference highlights the expansion of smart home solutions in the home and new business strategies that enhance the consumer experience with connected solutions.

Security

Are We Looking at Our Last Chance to Get IoT Security Right?

Time is running out on setting security standards for the Internet of Things. The President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) has examined the cybersecurity implications of IoT and has determined that there is a small — and rapidly closing — window to ensure that IoT is adopted in a way that maximizes security and minimizes risk.

Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A new study that tries to measure the direct cost of that one attack for IoT device users whose machines were swept up in the assault found that it may have cost device owners a total of $323,973.75 in excess power and added bandwidth consumption.

"Hide and Seek" Becomes First IoT Botnet Capable of Surviving Device Reboots

Security researchers have discovered the first IoT botnet malware strain that can survive device reboots and remain on infected devices after the initial compromise. This is a major game-changing moment in the realm of IoT and router malware. Until today, equipment owners could always remove IoT malware from their smart devices, modems, and routers by resetting the device.

Business

Intel Capital Pumps $72M Into AI, IoT, Cloud and Silicon Startups, $115M Invested so Far in 2018

Intel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern California, investments in this latest tranche cover artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud services, and silicon.

Development

Google’s Android Things IoT Platform Comes out of Beta

Android Things, Google IoT platform for developers who want to build connected devices, is now out of beta, as the company today announced. After eight release candidates, the last of which launched less than a month ago, Google now deems Android Things ready for primetime.

Microsoft Introduces Azure Sphere to Protect Your Internet of Things

With smart fridges, thermometers and lightbulbs designed to be convenient and easy to use, security is often an afterthought. That means hackers can have a field day accessing your personal data, or taking control of your device as part of a zombie network that takes down swathes of the internet.

Survey

Parks Associates: 17% of U.S. Broadband Households Own Both an Internet-Connected Entertainment

New Parks Associates research reveals 17% of U.S. broadband households own an Internet-connected entertainment device and a smart home device. The IoT research firm also notes that 13% of consumers own both a connected health device and a smart home device.