Woodstock Wire: NewsTidBits

Think -- Gartner Blog Network - Starwood emailed me a couple days ago telling me my data was part of their 500 million record customer data breach. The...

Life -- EurekAlert - Use of two episodic memory tests help in predicting brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease, as indicated by a study carried out at...

Life -- EurekAlert - Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified in live human brains new radioactive 'tracer' molecules that bind to and 'light...

Life -- EurekAlert - How does cancer spread? While studying human brain tumour cells, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University...

Life -- EurekAlert - Compared with skipping a flu shot, getting a flu shot was associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of premature death among newly-diagnosed...

Tech -- Mashable - If you've ever wondered what a Fast & Furious franchise film would look like if shot using a child's toy train, you're in luck....

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - According to the November jobs report, the U.S. added 155,000 jobs last month, which was under the 198,000 expectation....

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Gallup's Migration Research Center houses the latest and best discoveries on migration, based on more than a decade of Gallup...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Fifteen percent of the world's adults -- or more than 750 million people -- say they would like to move to another country...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Gallup's latest Potential Net Migration Index shows that in most of the countries that are refusing to sign the U.N. migration...

Life -- ESA-Hubble POW - This stunning spiral galaxy is Messier 100 in the constellation Coma Berenices, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

FOX News - Health -- A Marine veteran is crediting the Siberian husky she inherited from her Air Force son in 2011 with helping to save her life after the dog sniffed...

gizmag -- A large team of researchers has developed a new way to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease suggesting we should think of the disease as...

gizmag -- Open brain surgery is about as dangerous as it sounds, but for sufferers of conditions like Parkinson's and epilepsy it can be the only way to...

gizmag -- As promising as a drug candidate may be, the unfortunate truth is that not all of them end up performing as hoped - but that doesn't mean they're...

Slashdot -- Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey have been hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can...

Silicon Republic -- The workforce is more excited to embrace new technologies than their leaders think, according to Accenture's Tara Levins.

HR Bartender -- Retirement strategies are quickly becoming a key part of business. Retaining senior workers is crucial. So is planning for knowledge transfer...

USATODAY.com Technology News -- From the marathon runner to 5k enthusiast-a gift for every runner in your life

CNBC-Top Business -- A large snowstorm that struck the Carolinas, Virginia and other parts of the southeastern U.S. over the weekend prompted airlines to cancel more...

CNBC-Top Business -- How to cope with sparse retirement savings when you hit your 50s and beyond

CNBC-Top Business -- A new survey from retirement community firm Provision Living finds that while most Americans think about retirement a lot, their goals and plans...

U.S. News -- Insurance companies do not need any help marketing Medicare Advantage plans - just ask anyone over age 65 about...

U.S. News -- Retirees in their 50s are more likely to have retired sooner than planned, one study shows.

U.S. News -- The Boston Red Sox have accepted an invitation to the White House to celebrate their World Series championship.

U.S. News -- Minnesota health officials are adding Alzheimer's disease as a qualifying condition to get medical marijuana.

Think -- Big Think - The deal includes the option for Altria Group to take a 55 percent stake in the Cronos Group over the next five years.It marks a...

Think -- Big Think - The service will cost $4.99 per drop-off.Same-day delivery will be available in some markets.As the population ages and rates of...

Life -- Neuroscience News - Machine learning algorithms were able to distinguish, with 73% accuracy, neurobiological differences between those with dissociative...

Life -- The Penny Hoarder - The big 4-0.

That's right. You're old enough to remember the VHS versus Betamax war, and you kept your...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Majorities of Americans rate the coverage (69%) and quality (80%) of the healthcare they personally receive as "excellent"...

Life -- The Penny Hoarder - Pondering retirement is daunting. According to that online calculator you plugged some numbers into, you'll be...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - First, the stent electrode listened for brain signals. Now, it talks backIn 2016, Australian scientists announced a matchstick-size...

Tech -- TechCrunch - The internet is a community, but can it be a nation-state? It's a question that I have been pondering on and off this year, what...

Tech -- GeekWire - A raw image from NASA's InSight lander shows the spacecraft's robotic arm in the foreground, hanging over a solar panel. The terrain...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Walmart's acquisition spree continues. Only a couple of months after picking up apparel and lingerie brands, ELOQUII and Bare Necessities,...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Given six choices, Americans say they would ideally live in a rural area, followed by a suburb of a big city and a small city....

Life -- Lifehacker - When Apple pushed iOS version 12.1.1 on Wednesday, AT&T users gained the ability to use the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max's in a dual-SIM...

Life -- EurekAlert - New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down...

Tech -- GeekWire - A photo snapped by the camera on the InSight lander's robotic arm shows instruments on the spacecraft's deck with Martian terrain...

Tech -- The Verge - Verizon has announced a new discount for emergency first responders. The carrier already offers special plans for government agencies,...

Denver Post -- Saving $1 million for retirement is a goal many people try to reach. But even if they hit that mark, a study from SmartAsset suggests, it might...

Think -- Big Think - Learning is a mental and physical pursuit, says retired astronaut Leland Melvin.

Recalling his childhood, Melvin explains how working...

Infosec -- Schneier on Security - In an excellent blog post, Brian Krebs makes clear something I have been saying for a while:



Likewise for individuals,...

Infosec -- Office of Inadequate Security - Another phishing incident where an employee's email account was storing a lot of patient information. And because...

Infosec -- Krebs on Security - The parent firm of bling retailers Jared and Kay Jewelers has fixed a bug in the Web sites of both companies that exposed...

Life -- EurekAlert - Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital are working to develop a blood test to accurately diagnose or even predict Alzheimer's...

Life -- The Positivity Blog - "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."Sydney J. Harris

The stress is rising. You're starting to feel...

Life -- EurekAlert - Performance on an exercise test predicts the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other causes, reports a study...

Web Marketing -- Digital Commerce 360 - For more than a decade, the latest Apple products have been...