Gear up on five IoT news bites for your Tuesday
The invitation-only status is now gone from Project Fi, Google’s Wi-Fi service that charges its users only for the data they actually use, and not a lump sum each month. For now, the network works just with Nexus devices—likely why Google is offering a steep $150 discount on the Nexus 5X.
Apple vs US Justice is hardly going away anytime soon. Now, the government is appealing a ruling that tipped in favor of Apple, saying they didn’t have to unlock an iPhone of a suspected Brooklyn drug dealer. The decision would impact the current attempt by the FBI to get Apple to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter.
Google hired 4chan founder Chris Poole, known for the site that allows anonymous posting—and for the birth of Anonymous. Poole says he’ll bring his history of “building online communities” to Google—which his new employer could most certainly tap into given its own experience with Google+.
The light sensor market—used in smart home devices such as lightbulbs—is expected to grow just shy of 10 percent in the next six years as consumers continue to purchase these tools directly. So says research firm Reportlinker, which prices the global market at $2.14 billion by 2022.
Finally, fun times for those who enjoy fooling fingerprint scanners. A new way to scam their readers is with an ink jet printer. Using special ink and paper (but not so special you can’t buy them yourself) researchers were able to spoof a Samsung Galaxy S6 and a Huawei Honor 7 smartphone.
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