Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Business Wire -- TP-Link announced the Deco(r) M9 Plus Tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi 2-Pack System, the newest addition to the brand's lineup of mesh solutions.

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - I've tried a couple OnePlus Android phones in the past, but with the high price of flagships and stumbles by some it was time to...

datafireball.com -- R_i = alpha_i + beta_i * R_m + e_i where the R_m is the return of the market. You can simply get the monthly return for a given stock and the...

GeekWire -- The first American woman in space, Sally Ride, is the subject of serious and playful memorials today, 35 years after her historic flight and...

Chrome Unboxed -- One of my favorite things about Chrome OS is the constant feeling that we're on the edge of great, new technology all the time. Being an OS that...

Think -- HBR.org - When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone - a touchscreen...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Messages, Google's more recent focus for its scattered messaging efforts following its decision to "pause" work on Allo, is now...

Tech -- The Verge - Google is beginning to roll out desktop browser support for Android Messages, allowing people to use their PC for sending messages...

Tech -- The Verge - Google plans to release a patch sometime in the next few weeks to fix a bug in its Home smart speaker and Chromecast TV streaming...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Microsoft is looking to solidify its position in classrooms, and has recently acquired Flipgrid, the video discussion platform...

Tech -- Digital Trends - A new ARM-based supercomputer developed by HP's enterprise branch is set to be used by the National Nuclear Security Administration...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Apple this morning announced a new feature in iOS 12 which will automatically share your location with first responders when U.S....

Tech -- TechCrunch - Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, a social education app that utilizes short video clips to create collaborative lesson plans. The...

Official Google Blog -- The Asia-Pacific region is one of the largest and fastest growing ecommerce marketplaces in the world. People in Southeast Asia alone are expected...

PR Newswire: Networks -- Donuts Inc., the global leader in high-quality, new top-level Internet domains, today announced it has re-acquired the .fan top-level domain...

Domains -- DotWeekly.com - Facebook Inc. has acquired the premium generic domain name Groups.com

Hogan Lovells International LLP was used to help acquire...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - Artificial intelligence is offering an amazing opportunity to increase prosperity, but whether or not we will seize it...

Tech -- Digital Trends - A massive dust storm that is about the size of our continent has shrouded Mars, and has covered Opportunity for the last seven...

My Health News Daily -- NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is weathering a monster dust storm that has plunged its environs into permanent darkness.

CNN - Top Stories -- The subscription version of Microsoft Office is getting a new look, as the company tries to move more users to the cloud.

DigiTimes -- Own-brand motorcycle maker Kwang Yang Motor has unveiled two electric scooter models, New Many 110 EV and Nice 100 EV, for the Taiwan market,...

Hack a Day -- [Charlie Morris] has been busy building a portable ham radio rig and documenting his progress in a series of videos. You can see the first one...

BGR -- Earlier this week, a judge decided the fate of the AT&T Time Warner deal, and the result was a big thumbs-up in the general direction of capitalism....

BGR -- We have good news and bad news for Samsung fans on Thursday morning. The bad news is the fact that each new day brings more evidence that the...

Denver Post -- It was all clear skies Wednesday morning as Exectuive AirShare's Embraer Phenom 300 circled Centennial Airport, giving President and CEO John...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - This HiRISE image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about a decade) impact...

Life -- Lifehacker - You probably use machine-learning systems every day without even knowing it. The technology gives us spam filters, our Facebook...

Life -- Lifehacker - If you're using a Windows 10 machine, you might want to consider disabling Cortana-at least on the Lock Screen-if you aren't planning...

Infosec -- Verisign - Today, we released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately...

Military -- NASA - NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space, is retiring from the agency, effective Friday.

Think -- Forrester Blogs - This is an amazingly accelerated time to be alive. During my nearly fifty years on the planet, we have increased by many orders...

Enterprise -- CIO - Education doesn't have to be expensive - there are plenty of free courses to brush up on your IT skills that require nothing more than...

Tech -- Digital Trends - A team at the Massachussets Insitute of Technology has engineered a new smart power plug that employs artificial intelligence...

Tech -- Digital Trends - It's easy to get lost in the wilderness, and often hard to find your way back. The easiest solution: simplify things with one...

Tech -- The Verge - Google wants to help you cut down on the notification noise by using AI to prioritize Gmail push notifications.

The app now uses...

Tech -- The Verge - US federal prosecutors charged six former and current Fitbit employees in an indictment filed yesterday for possession of stolen...

Think -- HBR.org - It's a good time to be a consumer. New digital business models have flipped the customer-brand relationship...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Intel's Core i9 processors are some of the quickest on the market, but they harbor a dark secret. There's a bigger gulf between...

Tech -- The Verge - OnePlus has sold over 1 million units of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 6, in just under a month, according to company founder...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Google and Apple have both made some significant changes to how notifications are handled on their mobile operating systems....

Tech -- Digital Trends - In addition to giving the Chromebook Plus V2 more speed this year, Samsung is adding a secondary camera and spill-resistant...

Tech -- TechCrunch - It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Everyone from Elon Musk to AdBlock Plus wants to tell you which news sources are worth trusting. Now news aggregator Nuzzel is joining...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Google's Pixelbook may eventually support native dual-booting into Windows 10. Evidence recently surfaced in Chrome OS linking...

Tech -- The Verge - For months, police across the country have been using a device called a GrayKey to unlock dormant iPhones, using an undisclosed technique...

Tech -- TechCrunch - eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Microsoft today announced that it's bringing a new user interface design to its Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook....

Infosec -- Malwarebytes Unpacked - June marks the beginning of summer. It is also National Internet Safety Month.

This is the perfect time to remind vacationers...

Life -- EurekAlert - Combining financial incentives and personalized goal-setting with wearable devices may be an effective way of encouraging patients...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - To address the expected noise levels of future aircraft, NASA's Commercial Supersonic Technology project is already developing...