Woodstock Wire: NewsTidBits

Media -- The Next Web - For a lot of car nerds, the passion began before they could even drive, with toy cars like the diecast scale models made by Matchbox. Matchbox might be single-handedly responsible for getting more kids into cars than anyone, or anything,...

Tech -- Mashable - At this point, there's a good chance your Facebook data has been hacked, sold, leaked, or generally misused by third parties. Now, at least in the case of the latest troubling Facebook-related incident which made the news over the weekend,...

Tech -- TechCrunch - GM is adding an electric Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck to its lineup, as the automaker pushes to deliver more than 1 million electric vehicles globally by 2025.

GM President Mark Reuss said Tuesday that the Chevrolet Silverado electric...

Media -- The Next Web - Despite teasing the idea a couple of years ago, it seems that Ducati is not going to make an all-electric motorcycle, any time soon at least. In Motorcycle News (MCN), Ducati's VP of Sales Francesco Milicia seemed to provide a bit more...

Life -- Kiplinger - When the financial environment is challenging (like now) it's important to plan ahead and avoid some all-too-common retirement mistakes.

Life -- Psychology Today - Retirement villages have been around for years, but their popularity may be growing. This is an alternative lifestyle that many elderly find attractive.

Life -- EurekAlert - A personalized cancer vaccine developed with the help of a Mount Sinai computational platform raised no safety concerns and showed potential benefit in patients with different cancers, including lung and bladder, that have a high risk of...

Life -- WebMD - Psychotic episodes -- like hallucinations or delusions -- related to dementia can be scary for all involved. But there are ways to diagnose and treat the condition.

Life -- WebMD - Seeing signs of psychosis in a person with dementia may be harder than it seems. The first step: Asking questions of everyone involved.

Life -- Phys.org - A trio of Russian and American space travelers launched successfully and reached the International Space Station on Friday.

Life -- NASA Image of the day - Mary W. Jackson (second from left) seen in 1984 Student Symposium at Langley Research Center.

Life -- EurekAlert - Cognitive motor training helps in the fight against Alzheimer's and dementia, as demonstrated for the first time in a study by an international team of researchers with ETH Zurich involvement. The training platform used was developed by an...

Life -- WebMD - Here is one man's journey from diagnosis and treatment to living life to the fullest with multiple sclerosis.

Life -- Kiplinger - The number of seniors who are single and childless is growing. This group needs to be purposeful as they think about their health and finances and fostering companionship as they retire.

Life -- NASA Image of the day - A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars' northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas.

Life -- Kiplinger - A Roth annuity can create tax-free lifetime income during retirement or reduce your risk while saving for retirement.

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Slightly more Americans still prioritize the environment over economic growth, but the 50% doing so is the lowest in six years. Americans' preferences on this measure, historically, have been sensitive to the level of U.S. unemployment.

Life -- WebMD - A sudden jump in cancer cases among Americans at age 65 may be due to the fact that many older adults delay care until they have Medicare coverage.

Life -- WebMD - Some cancers survivors find they have lingering side effects long after treatment is over.

Life -- Phys.org - Molecular cages created by Imperial researchers could lead to more targeted cancer drug delivery, causing greater efficiency and fewer side effects.

Life -- Phys.org - With data from a 2016 expedition, scientists supported by NASA are shedding more light into the complex processes under the Greenland Ice Sheet that control how fast its glaciers slide toward the ocean and contribute to sea level rise.

Life -- Live Science - The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.

Life -- EurekAlert - On the surface, Parkinson's disease and melanoma do not appear to have much in common. However, for nearly 50 years, doctors have recognized that Parkinson's disease patients are more likely to develop melanoma than the general population....

Life -- Gallup Headlines - A new study from Carnegie Corporation and Gallup finds 46% of parents of U.S. children aged 11 to 25 say they would prefer that their child pursue something other than four years of college immediately after high school.

Life -- EurekAlert - A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research has examined the effects of type 1 diabetes and diabetic neuropathy on the skeleton.

Life -- Kiplinger - 'Return to normal' or not, digital commerce should continue to be a rewarding investment trend for many years to come. These e-commerce ETFs help you leverage that growth.

Life -- Neuroscience News - Combining artificial intelligence technology with brain scan data, researchers have identified three novel subtypes of multiple sclerosis.

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a single object in ground-based telescopic photos,...

Life -- Stat - As chief of Boston Children's Hospital, one of the most esteemed pediatric hospitals in the world, Sandra Fenwick had outsized influence. After the pandemic struck last spring, she used that clout to lobby Massachusetts legislators for more money...

Life -- EurekAlert - New research could rescue once-promising immunotherapies for treating solid cancer tumors, such as ovarian, colon and triple-negative breast cancer, that ultimately failed in human clinical trials.

Life -- NASA Image of the day - The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Life -- Asian Efficiency - The most valuable currency of all is time, and students need to be able to manage their time well, not only to juggle all their responsibilities but also to maintain some school-life balance, and eventually prepare them for work in...

Life -- EurekAlert - Insomnia is a common problem in patients with schizophrenia, and a new study reinforces a close association between insomnia, more suicidal thoughts and actions and increased problems like anxiety and depression in these patients.

Life -- Neuroscience News - Specific and identifiable neural pathways are altered with particular functions during the different progressive stages of Parkinson's disease.

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Life -- Reader's Digest - You might have gout, a type of arthritis that afflicts more than nine million Americans.1 There are oral treatments available, but a much smaller group of people still experience continued symptoms while receiving these treatments.2...

Infosec -- EFF Deeplinks - Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about...

Globe Newswire -- Researchers at the University South Florida in Tampa have received a $44.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Preventing Alzheimer's with Cognitive Training (PACT) Study. This new grant furthers prior research, published...

Media -- The Next Web - The Russian space agency Roscosmos and China's National Space Administration (CNSA) recently agreed to establish lunar outposts on, and in orbit around, the Moon. This announcement comes as Russia prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of...

Justmeans -- As T‑Mobile focuses on opening new retail stores every month of 2021, hundreds of which will be in smaller markets and rural areas, more of America's underserved communities are touting the benefits of fast and reliable 5G coverage, increased competition...

Media -- ELE Times - Melanoma is a type of malignant tumor responsible for more than 70 percent of all skin cancer-related deaths worldwide. For years, physicians have relied on visual inspection to identify suspicious pigmented lesions (SPLs), which can be an...

Media -- The Next Web - Over the long weekend reports emerged of an alleged data breach, impacting half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries. And while this figure is staggering, there's more to the story than 533 million sets of data. This breach once...

U.S. News -- A minor 4.0-magnitude earthquake has given the Los Angeles area a pre-dawn shaking.

U.S. News -- Buying a second home is a dream for many, but understand the pros and cons before taking on two mortgages.

Life -- Psychology Today - The "sales pitch" might start with a respectful invitation.

Life -- Phys.org - Using a simple set of hand signals can improve the experience of online meetings, make groups feel closer to each other and that they are learning and communicating better, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Tech -- Digital Trends - Your kids may want their own cell phone, but as a parent, you have safety concerns. We give you the lowdown on the safest way to buy and use their first phone.

Life -- Live Science - A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone's farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2).

Life -- New England Today - Canoeing on Fern Lake in Leicester, Vermont Caleb Kenna



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Life -- Kiplinger - When you think about all the moving parts to planning for retirement, it can feel overwhelming. But breaking it down into four phases could help bring the details into focus.