Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Military -- NASA - For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the...

Tech -- GeekWire - Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack,...

Tech -- Mashable - They say the things you put together yourself make for the most meaningful presents. Then again, there's no hard and fast rule that...

Tech -- The Verge - Sony and Samsung both announced 48-megapixel image sensors designed for smartphones earlier this year, and we're starting to hear...

Tech -- GeekWire - Workers install the 10,000 Year Clock inside an underground chamber in Texas. (Long Now Foundation)With $42 million in funding from...

FastCompany -- With an optional keyboard and pen, this device wants to split the difference between tablet and laptop. But the meshing of Chrome OS and Android...

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NYT > Science -- NASA's InSight lander recorded sounds on Mars for the first time.

Tech -- Digital Trends - NASA's Chandra Observatory has discovered a white dwarf star which is emitting supersoft X-rays, calling into question the conventional...

Hack a Day -- We've featured a great many unique clocks here on Hackaday, which have utilized nearly every imaginable way of conveying the current time. But...

MIT Technology Review -- Today's AI doesn't just shuttle passengers and cargo. It wins races.

Business Wire -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, today announced that the third quarter of 2018 closed with...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - "Putting this journey into words will not be easy, but I will try. I am finally where I was born to be." So said astronaut...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Well, the time has come to address the elephant in the room.

October has long passed and with it Google's annual hardware event....

Tech -- BGR - NASA's Curiosity rover is a powerful machine with some impressive capabilities when it comes to analyzing material samples, drilling into...

Tech -- The Verge - In a developer blog post published today, Alexa AI director of applied science Ruhi Sarikaya detailed the advances in machine learning...

Justmeans -- "The world needs cool stuff that gives people hope." says Harry Smith a former race...

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

Enterprise -- Computerworld - Got Fi? Google's unusual wireless service may have shifted its name from Project Fi to Google Fi this fall, but its core proposition...

Enterprise -- Network World News - Hardware processing should replace a device's dependency on networks, some scientists say. Making machines more efficient,...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Since we began here at Chrome Unboxed, the landscape of Chromebooks has changed mightily. From an ecosystem dominated by clamshells...

Tech -- BGR - Hubble consistently delivers gorgeous images of the cosmos as its handlers point it at distant galaxies and star clusters, but its imaging...

Tech -- BGR - When the Apple Watch first hit store shelves, the device was positioned as something of a fashion accessory. This was clearly evident by...

Tech -- About Chromebooks - Is the Pixel Slate a tablet first and laptop second? Can you be productive solely with a tablet or do you really need a keyboard?...

Tech -- The Verge - Early Saturday morning in China, a rocket will launch, carrying a lander and a rover bound for the Moon. It will mark the beginning...

Tech -- The Verge - Microsoft is moving its Edge Windows browser to Google's open source Chromium rendering engine. The move will mean Edge will be far...

Tech -- GeekWire - Microsoft is giving its Edge to Chromium.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will adopt the Chromium open source project for...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Vive la France - that was the dominant message of the day during a tour of the French tech ecosystem. But is it time to invest in...

Justmeans -- Symantec nonprofit partner Code.org talks diversity in tech, STEM education, and how to participate in Hour of CodeD

Think -- HBR.org - News that General Motors plans to cut up to 14,800 jobs in the U.S. and Canada was initially reported...

Think -- Big Think - SpaceX launched 64 satellites, belonging to various public and private organizations, into low orbit on Monday.The company launched...

Think -- IDC - Global shipments of wearable devices reached 32.0 million units in the third quarter of 2018, up 21.7% from the previous year according...

Infosec -- CyberScoop - Hackers who spent four years lurking inside the Starwood hotel chain's guest database now have a valuable piece of the puzzle for...

Tech -- Popular Science - Protect your device from vulnerabilities.



Your router is full of features that make it easier to use, but...

Web Marketing -- Digital Commerce 360 - An aging of the U.S. population is resulting in boom times for the knee and hip replacement market.

Each year, U.S. hospitals...

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Web Marketing -- Search Engine Watch - This year's TechSEO Boost, an event dedicated to technical SEO and hosted by Catalyst, took place on November 29 in Boston.

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Enterprise -- UiPath - The recently announced White House meeting with executives from the largest Silicon Valley companies, scheduled for Thursday...

Life -- EurekAlert - Graphene can determine whether cerebrospinal fluid comes from a person with ALS, MS or from someone without a neurodegenerative...

Electronics -- Intel - Traditional bridge inspection methods can be dangerous, costly and time-consuming, obstructing daily traffic patterns with road closures...

EE -- Adafruit Industries - Via We-make-money-not-art, artist Quentin Destieu has re-created and magnified the inner architecture of the 4004 processor...

Tech -- BGR - Electric cars are only just starting to become a regular sighting on city streets, but one historic motorcycle company is already dreaming...

Tech -- BGR - When Apple infamously killed the headphone jack two years ago, it offered users various ways to get used to the change. The iPhone 7 came...

Tech -- GeekWire - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending a Dragon cargo ship into orbit. (NASA...

Tech -- BGR - A SpaceX launch is a pretty big deal these days despite the fact that they happen with startling regularity. The company has a packed schedule...

Tech -- BGR - Apple just released iOS 12.1.1, an update that brings even more features and, of course, bug fixes to an OS release that has been largely...

Tech -- The Verge - Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today. While big app updates usually involve a lot of new...

Tech -- Liliputing - Intel's NUC line of computers are tiny desktops that generally have laptop-class processors. But laptop processors are getting pretty...

Tech -- BGR - While Apple may be waiting until 2020 to introduce a smartphone with support for 5G, the same can't be said for Android manufacturers....

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Microsoft's successor to its 'Andromeda' dual-screened foldable device is codenamed 'Centaurus.' It's just one element of Microsoft's...