Short week for those who celebrate Thanksgiving (with a small group, we hope) but the world spins on. Take a deep breath and get ready to sprint through the last few weeks until we finally escape 2020. But there’s no escaping newsbits, like the ones waiting below.

If your NFL team is already under water (sigh), cheer up and focus on the NBA. Trading starts today, so jump on the appropriate Slack channel. Draft day is Wednesday, the preseason starts December 11, and the 72-game season starts December 22.

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Connectivity is vital for most modern devices. It’s no longer just for computers, smartphones, or tablets. Televisions, baby monitors, thermostats, medical devices, automobiles and even aircraft are all connected today.

We’re rounding the corner to the end of the year, finally, and everyone’s fingers are crossed hoping 2021 is just as good as 2020 has been awful. Things are getting better already, if you judge by the fact the storm hitting Florida today is just Tropical Storm Eta and not Hurricane Eta.

We turned the corner on Halloween and Daylight Savings Time, meaning most of 2020 is behind us. In another day, all the TV and online ads will go back to selling us pickup trucks and beer and Christmas.

The networking and communications vendor has LoRaWAN gateways coming in connection with a longer-term bid to deliver complete smart building, smart city, and other IoT solutions in partnership with device makers and software developers.

Of course, there’s another hurricane heading through the Gulf of Mexico, because 2020.