The CES 2020 show flooded our attention spans last week with interesting new products and updates to a slew of existing smart home systems. And some silly stuff, as usual, like the Charmin RollBot toilet paper delivery drone.

The new HE150 combines Scale’s HC3 Edge software with Intel NUC hardware to produce an affordable, low-power, “tiny form factor” device that doesn’t require a backplane network switch.

Thanks for checking out ICYMI during this Christmas week. We’re glad to be an excuse you can use to avoid the relatives for at least a little while. If you read all the linked articles, you can probably hide for an hour or more. So, find a hiding place, and let’s catch up.

Here’s a good reason to put off your holiday shopping until next week: the Midwest and Northeast are under severe weather alerts for snow and ice most of this week. That means nearly half of all Americans are impacted. Next week has to be better, right?

Welcome back, physically and maybe mentally, from the Thanksgiving break. If you’re reading this in a snowed-in airport, good luck to you. Since the holiday was so late in November, we have only three and a half weeks before Christmas.

The day-long event gathers channel pros and security experts to discuss insights, research, and best security practices for the Internet of Things.

New features across the portfolio are designed to simplify and secure IoT solutions from cloud to the edge, according to Azure IoT executive Sam George (pictured).