Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

EE -- Raspberry Pi Blog - A team from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University has developed a foot-pressure-sensing insole to detect Parkinson's disease. Using our tiny computers, they managed to create something discreet that can monitor people as they walk...

Life -- Phys.org - ESA confirmed a contract signature yesterday with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to be the main customer for their Lunar Pathfinder satellite launching in 2024 that will provide communications services around the moon.

Tech -- Liliputing - Home Assistant is free and open source home automation software that allows you to control and interact with smart home gadgets. You can install the software on a single-board computer or in a virtual machine on a Windows, Mac, or Linux PC.

But...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - Diana Trujillo, an aerospace engineer, is currently Technical Group Supervisor for Sequence Planning and Execution and a Tactical Mission Lead for Perseverance.

Life -- Phys.org - SpaceX is set to launch four people into space Wednesday on a three-day mission that is the first to orbit the Earth with exclusively private citizens on board.

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - When I wrote in June that Ferrari was appointing a CEO from the semiconductor industry in pursuit of its electrification strategy, I didn't imagine that a few weeks later, I'd be out at a show for supercars and hypercars, talking to car...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Low-earth orbit is getting crowded, with constellations of communications satellites like the SpaceX Starlink internet service and a growing list of cubesats forming a hodge-podge rather than an interoperable network. What used to be called...

Media -- The Next Web - Companies and consortiums have been waging war against passwords through security keys and authenticator apps for years now. Microsoft has taken one more step towards a passwordless future by allowing you to remove the password from your...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - We don't know, and we do not comment on whether one device is better than its previous generation. What we do is look at and compare generations of devices. And while we wait for our pre-order of our Fitbit Charge 5 to arrive,...

Tech -- About Chromebooks - There's an effort underway to restore a Chromebook's firmware without needing a USB drive, which is required in the current process. Essentially, Chrome OS would have its own native Chromebook recovery software. This means you wouldn't...

PR Newswire -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's most trusted solution for protecting and delivering digital experiences, today announces the launch of Learn Akamai, a free, on-demand learning platform designed to help customers...

Life -- Phys.org - SpaceX is set to launch four people into space Wednesday on a three-day mission that is the first to orbit the Earth with exclusively private citizens on board, as Elon Musk's company enters the space tourism fray.

Business Wire -- UiPath's Academic Alliance program now includes more than 1,000 higher education institutions and workforce development organizations.

Tech -- The Verge - Android 12 may be released on October 4th, according to an internal document shared by XDA Developers. The next version of Google's mobile operating system features the new Material You visual design and has been in public beta since May.

The...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - The trucking industry is betting heavily on increasing levels of autonomy and electrification to reduce the cost of moving goods and to overcome persistent problems.

The economics of autonomous driving are compelling, not least...

Business Wire -- Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU), the global technology platform that makes TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Mailchimp, a world-class, global customer engagement and marketing platform for growing small...

PR Newswire -- NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named "Montdenier," Sept. 6, the team collected a second,...

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - The ability to harness ocean waves energy is a rapidly evolving field offering a whole range of applications in oceanographic research, aquaculture, and national defense. Columbia Power Technologies is helping to expand the...

Infosec -- Threatpost - With so many people still working from home, cybercriminals are trying to cash in. Cyberattacks have increased 300% and the risk of losing important data or being compromised is much greater at home.



Here are five recommendations for securing...

Media -- Makezine - The biggest Maker Faire in Czechia is back in full force! Czech DIYers, inventors, designers and creators will finally meet again offline in Prague this weekend (11th and 12th September) as Maker Faire Prague is just around the corner. Held...

Media -- Electronics360 - Thermoelectric generators transform thermal energy into electrical energy, and hence are active devices.

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Google's latest Chrome OS update isn't big, but it does clean up a useful feature and goes some way to addressing incompatible Android apps.

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Isn't it great when the news comes back better than expected? Six months into its daunting "30-day" proof-of-concept Mars excursion, Ingenuity is still sitting pretty and flying high. NASA has just made a few announcements on Ingenuity,...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Alright, today, I'm going to complain about something again - I seem to be good at that. Truly though, I'm complaining about something that many of my customers did when I used to work with Chromebooks in big box stores, and I think...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Back in 2017 when Google unveiled the original Pixelbook, I was mesmerized with it. From the screen ratio (3:2) to the ultra-thin chassis to the unique aesthetic, Google did something quite amazing with the design and construction of...

U.S. News -- Italian scooter maker Piaggio said on Monday it had set up a consortium with Honda Motor Co., KTM AG and Yamaha Motor Co. to...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Over the years, I've used a lot of Chromebooks, and often, I've used both clamshell and tablet devices simultaneously for a variety of reasons. For example, clamshell Chromebooks are great for hammering out some writing, while tablet...

Tech -- Liliputing - The Intel NUC P14E Laptop Element is a thin and light notebook computer with a 13.9 inch, 3000 x 200 pixel touchscreen display, an aluminum body, and a modular design: the brains of the system are on an Intel NUC 11 Compute Element card that...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, a standalone VW brand responsible for the development and sales of light commercial vehicles, and Argo AI, an autonomous driving technology company, unveiled the first version of the ID Buzz AD (Autonomous...

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gizmag -- NASA has released an image showing that the space agency's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully retrieved its first rock drill sample for return to Earth. Taken by the Mastcam-Z camera on September 1, the image shows a drill bit holding a pencil-thick...

Life -- The Wirecutter - After hundreds of hours of research and testing over the past seven years, we think Apple's 8th-generation iPad is the best all-around tablet, with all the performance and features most people need for watching video, browsing the Internet,...

Life -- Phys.org - Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA's Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over a week after its launch to orbit aboard a Vega rocket.

Life -- Phys.org - A team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) successfully collected data from the recent operational test of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched from Vandenberg...

Life -- Lifehacker - In 2021, a smartphone and a tablet are a college student's lifeline. Thanks to innovative and useful apps, these devices can help you manage your tasks, keep your calendar, and even help you be a better student through innovative note taking,...

Life -- Phys.org - Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed from orbital satellites like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But determining the grain size and dust content of the ice from...

Globe Newswire -- Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that Xiaomi Corporation has become a licensee and community member of OIN. As a leading global smartphone, smart device and IoT platform provider, Xiaomi...

Infosec -- Schneier on Security - Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it's a really good summary.

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Password management proves a reputable solution amid growing cyberattacks facing IT teams in Academia Password management proves a reputable solution amid growing cyberattacks facing IT teams in Academia

Infosec -- Malwarebytes Unpacked - Unfortunately there is a low correlation factor between what most people find the best browsers and what are the best browsers when it comes to privacy and security. If you look at the market share of the most popular browsers,...

Infosec -- CSO Online - Wi-Fi 6E is a technical extension of the Wi-Fi 6 standard to deliver improved Wi-Fi capacity, less interference, and higher throughput. Introduced in January 2021 by the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi 6E allows for an increased frequency band of 6...

Business Wire -- UiPath announces sponsorships are nearly sold out for FORWARD IV, the largest global conference for automation professionals taking place Oct. 5-6

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - CanaKit and Vilros are dominating the Raspberry Pi kit market.

Tech -- Addictive Tips - Xubuntu is an excellent desktop operating system, but did you know you can also use it on the Raspberry Pi 4? That's right, thanks to Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi, it is possible to run your favorite Linux desktop distribution on the Pi 4....

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Today, Google has officially unveiled the Pixel 5a and in the simplest terms, it is here to replace the generally-unavailable Pixel 4a 5G. If you remember back to just under a year ago, Google announced the Pixel 4a a bit later than...

Infosec -- Malwarebytes Unpacked - A deep dive into macOS 11's internals reveals some security surprises that deserve to be more widely known.

Tech -- About Chromebooks - Did you hear? There's a new major update of a desktop operating system now available. No, it's not Windows, macOS, or even Chrome OS. It's Debian Bullseye, which is version 11 of the popular Linux platform. And Chrome OS 94 brings...

Tech -- Mashable - It's been a long wait, but Google's Pixel 5a 5G is finally coming. Probably. According to Android Police, who has obtained some new information and photographs of various parts of the device, the Pixel 5a 5G will be launched really, really soon:...

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - AmateurLogic.TV is celebrating our 16th Anniversary and you could win a complete Icom IC-705 prize package along with accessories from MFJ.

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Infosec -- CyberScoop - Clever hackers use a range of techniques to cover their tracks on a target computer, from benign-looking communication protocols to self-erasing software programs.

It's not very often, though, that digital attackers turn to Morse Code, a...