The "internet of things," or IoT, is a network of physical objects that contain sensors, software and other features allowing hardware to connect to the internet and exchange data with online systems ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of physical devices, vehicles, appliances, and other objects embedded with sensors, ...

Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together ...