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The startup recently canceled its crowdfunding campaign and shifted from consumer to enterprise customers. It will focus on industrial and medical applications before returning to working on a device for the general population.…
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Connected things are everywhere at this year's CES. There's a problem though: Consumers aren't likely to buy them unless they connect to the wireless networks that are already in our homes.…
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With the explosion of low-cost chips, from Intel’s Atom processor to low-power Wi-Fi sensors, just about everything is “getting smart” these days.…
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