Xiaomi releases iWatch killer
Looks the same, lasts long and costs only $185
Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The Chinese electronics giant has launched its first smartwatch called the Mi Watch that looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch in its home market.
Google makes an offer for Fitbit
Wants to get into the fitness tracker business
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire US wearable device maker Fitbit as part of a cunning plan to get into the market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.
Smart homes need not be insecure
They can be disconnected from the net
A publicly-funded group of designers, artists and privacy experts from Amsterdam have designed an intelligent home system prototype to "prove it's technically possible to build a privacy respecting smart home while maintaining convenience".
Security people fear their toilets being hacked
IoT throws everything down the pan
Bog standard research from hardware security company nCipher suggests that IT security professionals are rather insecure about IoT and are becoming worried that even their toilets are leaking secret information.
Corporate automation is an invisible job killer
According to a team of economists
Ominous new research by a team of economists claims that businesses are slowly driving away employees with an invisible move to automation.