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Amazon, Apple, Google and others team up on a new smart home standard, Sapphire Ventures raises

more than $1 billion and a just-launched satellite will study planets beyond our solar

system. Here's your daily crunch for December 18th, 2019.

First up, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Zigby have joined forces for an open smart home standard.

The connected home over IP project seeks to create a connectivity standard designed to increase

compatibility across companies and devices.

The landscape is pretty scattered at the moment with each

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