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.

Welcome back to the real world. If you’ve had a leisure holiday full of rest and relaxation, please don’t tell that to those who handled everything while you were getting your toenails buffed and painted.

Good for us: we’ve reached the end of the month, the year, and the decade. But the fun isn’t ending in IoT, it’s just beginning.

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.

Security, interoperability, IT/OT, and hosting crucial considerations.

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?

Artificial intelligence (AI) might feel far away, but many of us experience AI every single day in applications like speech to text virtual assistance or fingerprint recognition on smartphones.