Autonomous vehicles are not yet safe. News broke recently that the autopilot in a Tesla involved in a fatal crash caused the car to speed up towards a barrier. The car, carrying 38-year-old Apple engineer Wei Huang, who later died in hospital, went from 62mph to 70.8mph in the three seconds leading up to the...

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IoT security has a new weapon as three Canadian technology companies have collaborated to create a data security solution for smart city and IoT applications. The data security solution, from eleven-x, ESCRYPT and OrbiWise, is available to all applications running on the eleven-x network, Canada’s first and only coast-to-coast IoT optimized network. The companies worked together to integrate...

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Security researchers have discovered the re-emergence of the Hide and Seek IoT botnet, which is the first of its type to be able to survive a device reboot. Initially discovered in January this year by Bitdefender, the botnet has managed to infect around 90,000 devices worldwide. Researchers believe that the current intention of its designers...

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Nokia has announced a collaboration with TeamTalk, to improve critical communications and emergency services throughout New Zealand. The collaboration will encompass wireless technologies, the Internet of Things, emergency services, connected service vehicles, and private LTE solutions. The two companies will work together to build an IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) radio service, employing Nokia’s backhaul network solution, to...

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NTT Group has created the first smart city proof of concept for Las Vegas, as part of the Las Vegas Digital Transformation initiative. Created in conjunction with Dell Technologies, the NTT Group smart city solution is a secure, distributed platform that incorporates sensors throughout the city providing real-time data to localized micro data centers. The...

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Following the official announcement by Didi that it has set up business in Mexico, where its arch-rival Uber has an 87% market share, the question that everybody wants answered is: who will win? The two companies have engaged in a hugely costly battle before, in Didi’s home country of China, where Uber was eventually driven...

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Microsoft has announced that it will invest $5 billion in IoT in the next four years as part of its drive to become the go-to digital transformation company. The Washington-based member of the tech big five has been shouting about its aims to ‘give every customer the ability to transform their business’ for some time...

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We caught up with Kelley A. Duarte, AT&T’s Associate Vice President, IoT and Strategic Service for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to find out what brought AT&T to Smart IoT London 2018 and to discover some of the latest applications and trends in IoT for the year ahead. What are the key trends in...

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