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Toshiba has ushered in a new era of smart kitchen technology with its revolutionary smart microwave oven. The microwave oven was unveiled at the Google and Amazon booths during CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and marks a milestone for Toshiba in the application of IoT technology in the smart home.

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.

In a continuing effort to make the SoundSticks 4 a timeless and coveted sculptural piece for the home, the new design carries on the signature form factor and materials of the original SoundSticks.

Diodes Incorporated today announced the AL8843Q and AL8862Q automotive-compliant DC-DC buck converters, designed for driving single LEDs and multiple LED strings in and around vehicles. Applications include daytime running lights (DRL), which many manufacturers now offer as standard, as well as fog lights, turn lights, and brake/stop lights.

The Secret Service, best known for protecting presidents, was formed in 1865 to fight an epidemic of counterfeiting that was strangling the U.S. economy. Today counterfeit U.S. bills are only a tiny fraction of currency in circulation. Even so, the Secret Service made more than 1,580 counterfeiting-related arrests last fiscal year, seizing $204 million in phony bills. Banks and retailers collected an additional $107 million. Once dominated by artisans who minted carefully forged greenbacks on large offset presses, domestic counterfeiters now typically rely on computers, scanners and laser printers. And some use the dark web to sell their high-quality fakes online.

Panasonic introduces two new interchangeable lenses based on the L-Mount system for the LUMIX S Series Full-frame Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Cameras. Designed for professional use, the LUMIX S Series offers uncompromising photographic expression with its high-quality cameras and lenses.

CES 2020--In a first for homeowners, Hampton Products has merged the innovative BenjiLock By Hampton® fingerprint-unlocking technology initially deployed in padlocks with hardware expertise learned from decades creating security solutions to create a new line of exterior deadbolts that use your fingerprint as a key.

Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tech systems designed to more quickly detect and defeat attacks. In a speech at the Pentagon, Trump declared that space is the new warfighting domain and vowed that the U.S. will develop an unrivaled missile defense system to protect against advanced hypersonic and cruise missile threats.

Newer seat-back entertainment systems on some airplanes operated by American Airlines and Singapore Airlines have cameras, and it's likely they are also on planes used by other carriers.