Internet Of Things news and trends

Samsung Health Hub Aims to Simplify Doctor-Patient Communication
Healthcare // June 16, 2025

Samsung is reportedly developing a hub for patients to share health data with their doctors. That’s according to a report Monday (June 16) from Bloomberg News, which noted that the project is designed to help people remember the guidance their healthcare providers offered during appointments....

Amazon’s Alexa+ Voice Assistant Draws 100,000 Users as Rollout Continues
Retail // May 02, 2025

Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Alexa+ will be made available to more users in the coming months, Jassy said. It is...

Cold Cash: The World’s Most Remote ATMs — From Antarctica to Everest
Banking // April 05, 2025

We get a lot of press releases here at PYMNTS. We consider all of them, and some are more newsworthy than others. But this one really got our attention. This past week, Diebold Nixdorf made headlines with its announcement of successfully installing two new automated...

Smart Salt Shakers and Selfie Toasters: Meet the IoT Devices You Never Knew You Needed
Internet of Things // March 01, 2025

Here at PYMNTS we cover the Connected Economy as well as banking and payments. You can call it the smart economy or the digital economy. However, as Karen Webster wrote when she introduced the concept and our research methodology for defining it, “that connected economy...

Interviews & Exclusives
Could Micropayments Be the Next Frontier for B2B Commerce?

December 10, 2024
Innovation is continually redefining the parameters of what’s possible in business-to-business (B2B) payments. And across today’s operating landscape, one defined by digital transformation and real-time decision-making, sometimes it’s the smallest innovations in payments that can have an outsize impact. Enter: micropayments. As B2B industries such as manufacturing, logistics, marketplace eCommerce, cross-border facilitation, and more prioritize […]

AI 1.0 Is Already Accelerating Industry 4.0’s Innovation Pace

December 01, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving industry 4.0 a shot in the arm.  The bleeding edge computing innovation is driving future-fit efficiencies within historically fragmented and labor-intensive industries, slotting productively into the...

10 Ways Regulation Could Shake Up the Digital Economy in 2022

January 05, 2022
In 2021, regulators and policymakers around the world launched different regulatory initiatives on a wide range of topics from FinTech to crypto, privacy and artificial intelligence. In TechREG, we expect...

Mastercard Says AI Key In Managing IoT Data Deluge — And Thwarting Cyberfraud

May 10, 2021
Data, data everywhere – accumulating exponentially, as we have gone increasingly digital. A fact to file away under “mind-boggling stats:” We as humans create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every...

Quick Reads
Samsung Health Hub Aims to Simplify Doctor-Patient Communication

June 16, 2025
Samsung is reportedly developing a hub for patients to share health data with their doctors. That’s according to a report Monday (June 16) from Bloomberg News, which noted that the project is designed to help people remember the guidance their healthcare providers offered during appointments. Samsung health executive Dr. Hon Pak said the tech giant […]

Amazon’s Alexa+ Voice Assistant Draws 100,000 Users as Rollout Continues

May 02, 2025
Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Alexa+...

Meta Launches AI-Powered Ray-Bans for Users in Europe

November 18, 2024
Meta AI says its Ray-Ban smartglasses are now available in four European countries. Beginning Monday (Nov. 18), users in France, Spain, Ireland and Italy can use these artificial intelligence (AI)-powered...

Report: Apple Developing AI-Powered Smart Home Device

November 12, 2024
Apple will reportedly announce a device in a new product category — one that brings together artificial intelligence, apps and smart home functions — as early as March. The device, which...