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AWS Announces a New Version of AWS Iot Greengrass
Recently, AWS announced a new version of its IoT Greengrass edge runtime and cloud service during the annual re:Invent. The latest version 2.0 comes with pre-built software components, local software development tools, and new features for managing software on large fleet devices.
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AWS IoT Greengrass Reaches 2.0, Edge Runtime Goes Open Source
Announced in 2017, AWS Greengrass aims to ease the task of setting up and managing IoT systems. Version 2.0 adds new developer capabilities, including revamped command-line interface and support for adding and removing pre-built components. Additionally, its edge runtime has been open sourced and is now available on GitHub.
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The WebThings Iot Platform Continues on Its Own after Mozilla Disengages from Iot
David Bryant recently announced that Mozilla WebThings becomes WebThings and leaves the Mozilla umbrella to become an independent community-led open source project. The project’s website also moves from Mozilla IoT webpage to its own (webthings.io). The move ensures the continuity of operations for the WebThings user base while Mozilla continues to focus on its restructuration.
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The NM180100 Enables Low-Energy Edge and Endpoint Computing with Short and Long-Range Communication
Northern Mechatronics announced NM180100, its latest LoRa Bluetooth 5 low-energy module for IoT applications. The NM180100 uses an Apollo3 Blue microprocessor to achieve low power consumption in all operating states of the device together with versatile communication capabilities in a single package module solution.
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Google Releases New Coral APIs for IoT AI
Google has released new APIs and tools for their Coral AI toolkit. The new release brings parity across the C++ and Python SDKs and includes more efficient memory usage. Other updates include additional pre-trained models and general-availability of model pipelining.
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Ubuntu 20.10 Brings Full Desktop and Micro Clouds to Raspberry Pi 4
Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 is now fully supported on the Raspberry Pi 4, which can be transformed into a complete Ubuntu workstation, says Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.10 also introduces Micro Clouds for on-demand compute at the edge.
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AWS Releases Amazon Timestream into General Availability
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a serverless purpose-built database that exposes time-series data through SQL. With Amazon Timestream, customers can save time and costs in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on user-defined policies.
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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities
During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities.
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Open-Source Raspberry Tablet CutiePi Lets Developers Customize Hardware and Firmware
The Taiwanese startup CutiePi recently launched its Raspberry Pi tablet on Kickstarter. CutiePi software and hardware design are entirely open-source, and thus can be customized at will. CutiePi self-describes as the first truly usable and thinnest Raspberry Pi tablet.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of Monitoring Service AWS IoT SiteWise
IoT SiteWise is a fully managed service in AWS, which automates the processing of data from the plant floor, the structuring and marking of data, and generation of real-time metrics to monitor. The service provides customers with a way to connect their on-premise industrial equipment via a gateway to link their on-premises servers to the AWS cloud, where the data accumulates for analysis.
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Hardware Attack Exposes nRF52 Debugger
A hardware bypass enables attackers to restore full debug capabilities in the nRF52 radio chipset, used in many consumer and medical devices. Fault injection re-enables debugging in a way that attacks the silicon, unpatchable in software.
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WebAssembly Extended with Hot Reloading, Remote Debugging and Uniform Hardware Access
Researchers recently presented WARDuino, an extension to WebAssembly targeting microcontrollers. WARDuino addresses common development pain points by adding live code updates, remote debugging, and access to the microcontroller’s hardware modules. WARDuino’s virtual machine runs five times faster than Espruino (a popular JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers) on some benchmarks.
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Amazon Updates AWS Snowball Edge with Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball is a part of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Recently Amazon announced a few updates for Snowball Edge device option. It now has a graphical user interface with AWS OpsHub, 25% faster data transfer performance, and support for local Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS System Manager.
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W3C Finalizes Web of Things (WoT) Recommendations
The W3C recently announced two new W3C Recommendations, Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), for web integration across IoT platforms and applications.
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TinyGo Aims to Bring Go to the Internet of Things
Google-sponsored TinyGo is a new LLVM-based Go compiler to make it possible to run Go programs on microcontrollers, including the Arduino Uno and the BBC micro.bit, as well as modern browsers using Web Assembly.