Tag: ubicomp

• Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs

  May 15, 2024

  Google has announced that it’s opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157154/google-home-api-matter-smart-home-chromecast-google-tv more ›

• The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states

  December 21, 2020

  “Smart city” is one of those science fiction phrases seemingly designed to make you uneasy, like “neuromarketing” or “pre-crime”. It’s impossible to be alive in this decade and not find… more ›

• COVID-19 is shifting the focus from smart cities to resilient cities

  November 2, 2020

  The COVID-19 crisis has focused the minds of local governments on the need to build resilience into their recovery strategies. Despite severe budget challenges globally, cities such as London and Tel Aviv, have… more ›

• City Brain

  May 31, 2020

  Get up to $785 in coupons plus amazing spring deals. Get a head start on your career in the cloud. $0.99 cloud server and free training course for eligible students… more ›

• Essay: The street as platform

  September 3, 2019

  I was recently asked to comment on ‘the street of the future’; a response for a quango responsible for the built environment and a government department responsible for transport, roads… more ›

• Inside the Shifting Plans for Toronto’s Smart City of Tomorrow

  June 26, 2019

  What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city… more ›

• Suppose that the NSA was acquired by Google, let’s…

  January 13, 2014

  “Suppose that the NSA was acquired by Google, let’s say, and suppose that Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Amazon pooled all their databanks, maybe through legislative fiat, or through open-source… And… more ›