Sidewalk

I hope the air conditioning in your home works. Or at the very least in your car. The ceiling fan in my dining room isn’t picking up enough speed for any real relief. Any cooking that…

Amazon has sold a lot of connected devices, and now it’s putting those devices to work. Millions of Ring cameras and Echo speakers sitting in homes across the US have the potential to share…

This Echo Dot 4th Gen works as an Amazon Sidewalk bridge. Maria Diaz/ZDNETAmazon is opening its Amazon Sidewalk network for developer testing. The enormous network, which the company…

Amazon built out an enormous IoT network in the United States right under everyone’s noses. In a blog post, the company announced its Sidewalk network is now available for…

Amazon has slowly been building a new wireless network, and it's ready to show the world how pervasive it is. Almost three years ago, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Sidewalk, a…

Your Ring doorbell camera isn't just beaming a live videofeed from your doorstep to your computer. It's also extending your home network out onto the street, making a chunk of your internet…

It's easier than ever to view maps of any place you'd like to go -- by car, that is. By foot is another matter. Most cities and towns in the U.S. do not have sidewalk maps, and pedestrians…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Could a solution to traffic lights going dark in big storms come…

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Faces I’ll Never ForgetEmptying a drawer that for years had sat unsifted, I found old computer disks, a yellowed newspaper and a stack of senior photos of my first students. In our classroom…