Dec 19
Pelosi is holding off on sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Dems know what trial will look like.
Dec 19
Explaining etiquette to tiny humans is hard. Here’s where to start.
Dec 19
Technicians who added motion effects to “The Rise of Skywalker” promise the lightsaber fights are extra intense.
Dec 19
Pantsless John Legend And Chrissy Teigen Are Kris Jenner’s Worst Dinner Guests Ever
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe couple made themselves at home during the momager’s off-the-walls Christmas dinner party.
Dec 19
Apple has released an open-source version of the HomeKit Accessory Development Kit. You can now fork it on GitHub and play around with it to integrate smart home devices in the Home app and beyond.
Today’s news is related to the Connected Home over IP effort, an industry-wide effort to build an open-source standard for the internet of things. Essentially, Apple, Amazon, Google, the Zigbee Alliance and smart home manufacturers want to work together so that accessories work everywhere.
HomeKit is lagging behind, although Apple arrived early in the connected home space. A ton of accessories now work with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, but you can control very few accessories with Siri, as HomeKit adoption has been slow.
By open-sourcing HomeKit, Apple hopes that more smart home manufacturers will try to integrate HomeKit in their prototypes. Everything has been released under the Apache 2.0 license.
As Next INpact noticed, if you want to release a HomeKit-compatible accessory, you still have to work with Apple to get a certification. And of course, manufacturers that work with Apple directly could potentially access unreleased features before they’re unveiled at WWDC.
Developers have already reverse-engineered HomeKit to add HomeKit compatibility to more devices with the Homebridge project. Now let’s see if it leads to more cool projects to make it easier to control your connected objects from your iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices.
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Christopher Nolan’s next epic, a movie called Tenet, is arriving next year, and today we received the first trailer for it. Don’t expect the trailer to clear up a whole lot about the movie’s story, though – even though it’s clear that Tenet will deal in time travel in some way, the most we can say with certainty after viewing … Continue reading
Dec 19
Australian Prime Minister Will Return From Vacation to a Camp of Pissed Off People
Posted in: Today's ChiliAustralia has been left scarred by heat and flames and choked by smoke. Australians are understandably pissed the crisis has reached this point while the government peddles in climate denial. Many are so pissed, in fact, that they set up camp outside Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s home Thursday. The plan is to stay…
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