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Connected Devices and IoT

Matter Smart Home Standard Allows Smart Home Devices to Work Together

Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
Cardinal Peak
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Connected Devices and IoT

Google I/O Rundown

Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up... View Article
Cardinal Peak
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Outsourced Engineering

Google Is Feeling Creepy

When you enable location access, Android says Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running. This seems both fair and harmless, so I didn't think too much about it. But it turns out to be a little creepier than you might think.
Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up... View Article
When you enable location access, Android says Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running. This seems both fair and harmless, so I didn't think too much about it. But it turns out to be a little creepier than you might think.
Howdy Pierce
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Video

We Need VP8 Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

I’ve been waiting for a little to mull over Google’s announcement about dropping H.264 support in Chrome in favor of VP8. Although my partner Ben Mesander would take the other side of the argument, I think the world needs VP8 like a fish needs a bicycle.
I’ve been waiting for a little to mull over Google’s announcement about dropping H.264 support in Chrome in favor of VP8. Although my partner Ben Mesander would take the other side of the argument, I think the world needs VP8 like a fish needs a bicycle.