Bird Technologies unveils antenna, cable monitoring device

For the first two decades of the Internet era, operational technology (OT) in places like factories and power plants remained mostly isolated from IT systems. While the fear of cyber intrusions grew among their counterparts in IT, workers in these physical settings were far more focused on safety precautions to protect people from the machines, […]

These days many operating systems for Internet of Things devices include an open-source license, but vigilance is needed to adequately protect the attack surface. An ESG survey has indicated 38% of storage decision makers expect IoT workloads to drive on-premises storage spending increases over the next two years. Some 33% of respondents expected cloud spending […]

In the human body, the appendix seems to serve no functional purpose. Why did the organ appear? How can it come out of people’s bodies with no harm? Much as a person’s appendix is a mystery organ with no value, the North American fire codes contain a similar useless bygone artifact. The omnipresent-but-never-used wired two-way […]

Designating autonomous vehicles as ‘drivers’ raises a variety of potential legal complications meaning self-driving cars will change how insurance companies price and sell policies. Meanwhile, governments, courts, insurers and automakers are all weighing in on the attributes of autonomous vehicles, their ownership and uses. The central liability model currently underpinning auto insurance, which is based […]