Neowin News Feed for: Appliances

LG brings new smart ThinQ home AI platform to Europe

Paul Hill — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:20:01 +0000

LG is planning to launch its ThinQ AI for its appliances in Europe. It will show off a demo at IFA 2025 in Berlin, which begins this week. Read more...

Limited software updates put smart appliances at risk of security breaches

Paul Hill — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:14:01 +0000

The consumer advocacy group Which? has said some brands only support smart appliances for two to three years. This is a much shorter length of time than many customers expect to keep these products. Read more...

Cyber attack: 750,000 malicious emails traced back to hacked home appliances

Jett Goldsmith — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:59:31 +0000

A California security firm says they have discovered the origin of a botnet which delivered over 750,000 malicious emails to home appliances, such as refrigerators, routers and televisions. Read more...

Refrigerators and rice cookers running Android? Yes, really

Stephen Robinson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:19:47 +0000

Companies such as LG have shown off refrigerators, rice cookers and printers that run Google Android operating system at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Read more...

VMWare Eyes Virtual Appliances to Combat Software Bloating

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:26:04 +0000

With today's operating systems ever increasing in size and complexity, a result of the wide variety of applications and usage situations they must support, maintenance of the codebase against bugs and security vulnerabilities becomes ever... Read more...