Several years ago Amazon unveiled the controversial Sidewalk network, designed to connect outdoor smart home tech beyond your WiFi range using Amazon Ring, Echo and other devices. Now, the company has ...

Space lasers, once a mere futuristic joke, have become a real tool in building technology up there and making improvements for all of us down here. There's been NASA's use of space lasers to study ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --Amazon announced Thursday that its upcoming Internet satellites will be equipped with terminals to create a mesh of laser links to increase connection speeds. The company said it ...

Julian is a staunch advocate for open source software, leading to the natural conclusion of being a lifelong Android user. While he only started his writing career in January 2022—at the ripe old age ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You have probably heard in the past few years about Sidewalk, Amazon's ad hoc IoT network formed by your Echo, Ring, and other supported ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to ...

As the Internet of Things became a mainstream reality, it raised an interesting point about connectivity. We quickly learned it wasn’t ideal to have every light bulb, toaster, and kettle buzzing away ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for ...

In brief: To say that it's rare for there to be a new network for devices to tap into would be an understatement. Cellular and Wi-Fi networks have been around for decades. Over the last few years, ...