Staff Writer

A new social network seems like so much noise, but the new "Hello" has serious backing: It's the brainchild of former Google veteran Orkut Buyukkokten and has received funding from Google itself.

The newest iteration of the LightBlue Bean, the Bean+, is larger and more powerful than its predecessor, but it's still less than a third the length of a banana.

Universal Plug and Play is the original Internet of Things, in a way. Devices sharing media and information is the basis of IoT, so it is no wonder that UPnP hopes to shape IoT in the near future.