Amazon Sidewalk Wants to Connect All Devices in Your Neighborhood

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to join all connected devices in your neighborhood into a single mesh network so that you will continue to have functionality beyond the limits of your own Wi-Fi signal. Called Amazon Sidewalk, it's a type of Wi-Fi network of its own that gains strength the more devices people connect to it because it borrows a small bit of bandwidth from your connected neighbors (who need to opt into the program) to create a "shared network" that extends the range of your own signal. Amazon's new Sidewalk feature means dog-tracking collars will work more effectively.