Haier Smart Home, the world’s leading home appliance brand and smart home ecosystem builder, is ushering in a new era of healthy food storage with the launch of the first Internet of Food-empowered Smart Refrigerator at AWE 2021 in Shanghai. The appliance is the first smart refrigerator to be fully compliant with 22 Chinese national […]
Mitrex, a Canadian manufacturer of solar technology, says it is bringing its roofing panels to market. Mitrex notes its panels are developed to provide a cost-efficient energy solution for homes. The company says its patented building-integrated photovoltaic technology (BIPV) extends a building’s energy-generating potential, allowing every sun-touched surface to generate electricity. The solar roof panels […]
Apple has responded further to the Australian consumer watchdog’s probe of app marketplaces, this time rejecting characterisation that the Apple App Store is the most dominant app marketplace and saying there are other options for iOS users, such as by going to a website. “Apple perceives and treats other distributors of apps, for platforms other […]
The introduction of construction robotics may prove to be a tipping point for this industry. How are robots changing on-site construction today, and where can we expect to see them in the future? Source link
The IoT M2M Council (IMC) announced today that Microsoft has joined the Council, a trade group that fosters a community of 25,000 qualified IoT users. The Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering group will use the IMC as a platform to stay in closer contact with enterprise users and product makers that are deploying IoT technology. The […]
The residential solar market adapts to a year of change It’s officially been one full year since the country shut down due to COVID-19. The thing I remember most from those first days and weeks was how quickly everything happened. The morning of March 10, 2020, our office decided to cancel our upcoming St. Patrick’s […]
Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has always been a polarizing figure. There are people who love him and those that hate him. For example, RMS often clashed with Linus Torvalds. RMS has claimed that the Linux operating system should be called GNU/Linux. He also clashed with Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source’s founders, and others over […]
Every position is being assessed by small manufacturers. Jobs that can be replaced with robots make the company more attractive for a potential buyer. Readers Choice 2020: Preparing to be Acquired: COVID-19 Has Inspired Small Manufacturers to Embrace Robotics Fran Brunelle, Founder | Accelerated Manufacturing Brokers, Inc. Little could Blake have known that COVID-19 would […]
Three satellite launches and the new Developer Toolkit to accelerate customer adoption of Myriota technology worldwide and herald in a new era of affordable connectivity for the global IoT industry. Myriota, the world leader in secure, low-cost and long battery life satellite connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the availability of commercial […]
By Charlie Knadler, CEO, EnerBank USA At the end of last year, Congress extended the renewable energy tax credit through the end of 2023. For solar projects that begin construction in 2021 and 2022, the tax credit will remain at 26%, and then decline to 22% for 2023. Until recently, 2021 was going to be a critical […]