Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Business Wire -- UiPath has integrated its automation platform with digital document generation and e-signature capabilities from Adobe.

Business Wire -- UiPath and airSlate are partnering to propel small businesses to grow faster as fully automated businesses.

Life -- Phys.org - In the near future, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Roscosmos all mount crewed missions to the moon. This will constitute the first time astronauts have walked on the lunar surface since the Apollo era. But unlike the "race...

Life -- Phys.org - Distant galaxies, dark matter, dark energy and the origin and evolution of the universe itself are some of the many scientific goals of China's newly announced space telescope. If all goes according to plan, the China Space Station Telescope...

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This adds to the catalog of more than...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Critical enterprise and education solution becomes accessible on affordable Chromebooks; now bundled with select HP Chrome OS Enterprise devices Critical enterprise and education solution becomes accessible on affordable Chromebooks; now...

Business Wire -- Wrike, the most powerful work management platform, now part of Citrix, today announced that Walmart Inc. has expanded its Wrike instance outside of Walmart Canada. It now encompasses more than 1,000 new users across international teams, including Global...

Business Wire -- Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry, today announced the successful delivery of the first of ten satellite buses to...

Business Wire -- UiPath has been named to Inc. magazine's annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2022, the third time it has been recognized with the award.

EE -- Hackaday - The humble USB-C port has brought us so many advantages over its USB ancestors, one of which is as a handy display output for laptops. Simply add an inexpensive adapter and you can hook up everything from a mobile phone upwards to an HDMI display...

Enterprise -- InfoQ - Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Amplify Studio, a visual interface that simplifies front- and backend development for web and mobile applications. It extends the existing AWS Amplify service, a set of tools and features...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Quanta Computer's production capacity for MacBook Pros at its Shanghai, China site so far still has not been fully restored and consumers who place orders for Apple notebooks now may not receive the devices until mid-July, according to sources...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - When I worked in Best Buy as a Chromebook expert, I had several customers over the years ask me if I could help them install Mozilla Thunderbird on their new laptops so they could keep the familiar feel and interface as well as features...

EE -- Arduino Blog - The flux capacitor is one of the most iconic movie props of all time. Part of that is due to its plot purpose in the Back to the Future franchise, but its fame is also because it looked so futuristic when the first movie hit theaters in...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Transition to using Bullseye to continue receiving patches.

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - Microsoft's new Outlook mail client, codenamed 'Project Monarch,' seems ready to roll out in preview any time now.

Enterprise -- SAP - Manufacturers may view direct-to-consumer (D2C) business models as a significant opportunity to increase profit margins in an otherwise tight market. Yet, the last thing any wholesale distributor wants to worry about is whether it must compete against...

Enterprise -- IT Business Edge - Oftentimes, the interview process focuses on skills and experience, but when interviewing developers, rarely are questions asked about whiteboarding.



Whether a team uses whiteboards to brainstorm, demonstrate an answer, diagram a...

Enterprise -- IT Business Edge - Swim lane diagrams are process flowcharts that identify who does what, and when. Comprised of a series of horizontal or vertical paths, likened to swimming lanes in a pool, these diagrams allow for the mapping of simultaneous processes,...

Tech -- Liliputing - The Khadas VIM4 is a 3.2″ x 2.3″ single-board computer with support for 4K video playback, HDMI 2.1 and Gigabit Ethernet ports, WiFi 6, and Bluetooth 5.1 wireless connectivity, and 8GB of LPDDR4X memory.

Set to go launch on May...

Tech -- Digital Trends - These days, most people use Google Chrome to browse the internet. But as Firefox hits its 100th version, there are many reasons I keep coming back to it.

Media -- The Next Web - Between remote strikes on people and oil refineries in the Middle East, and multiple Black Mirror episodes, drones get a bad rap. But as their capabilities increase through machine intelligence, mapping, and greater aerial surveillance,...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - The GSMA just released the latest eSIM specification, making it easier to provision devices with new credentials. Operators and device manufacturers now have the option to get rid of the physical SIM card for good.

Thirty years ago, the arrival...

Business Wire -- WP Engine today unveiled its new Omaha office, located in the historic Ashton Building in the Millwork Commons community.

Tech -- The Verge - Spot, the most famous four-legged robot in the world, sometimes seems more like an animatronic entertainer than an industrial machine. But creators Boston Dynamic want to remind the world at large in a new video that this thing can do work,...

Tech -- Liliputing - Eighteen years after Firefox 1.0 hit the streets, the folks at Mozilla have released version 100 of the open source, cross-platform web browser.

The latest release marks a numerical milestone, but it doesn't bring a particularly large amount...

Aspencore -- EDN - How many times have you been convinced to purchase a newer version of a device you already own or (perhaps less fiscally damaging) to update to the latest firmware release for that device, in both cases motivated by the manufacturer's rosy promises...

Life -- Google - The Keyword - Google acquires Raxium

Life -- Undark - As farmers face changing weather patterns, environmental degradation, labor shortages, and the rising cost of key supplies, no segment of agriculture is without passionate advocates of robotics and artificial intelligence as solutions. But the...

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient river delta in Jezero Crater. The images-captured on April 23, during the tiny helicopter's 27th flight-were taken at the request of the Perseverance...

Life -- Phys.org - Boeing's Starliner capsule is finally ready to reattempt a key test launch to the International Space Station on May 19, officials said Tuesday.

Life -- Phys.org - Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to...

Life -- Phys.org - Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a "supersonic ballet."

Life -- Live Science - Russia has confirmed it will pull out of the International Space Station (ISS), due to sanctions imposed over the Ukraine invasion.

Life -- Lifehacker - Google's Android 12 security patch for the month of May is here. If you have a Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, and Pixel 6 Pro (including any XL variants), you should see this update hit your device shortly....

Life -- NASA Image of the day - Misty Snopkowski is NASA's program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program.

Life -- Phys.org - Scientists have developed a low-cost microscopic imaging device small enough to fit on a smartphone camera lens, with the potential to make mobile medical diagnosis of diseases affordable and accessible.

Life -- Psychology Today - If you love your phone, but also wonder whether you adore it just a little too much, what are your options?

Media -- The Next Web - I always thought Mini Coopers were pretty cool, so I was pleased this week to learn that the Cooper Car Company, the original designer of the Mini Cooper, rolled out not one, but four electric bikes. They sit under the dedicated two-wheel...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Craig Martell, the head of machine learning for Lyft, is joining the Pentagon to be the leader of its new data and artificial intelligence office, Bloomberg reported Monday (April 25).

The report said Martell is a former professor of computer...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Digital twins not only provide engineers and designers with real-time data of how a physical asset performs, but they also offer time and cost advantages during the test and developmental stages of both new and existing products. But what if...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - NASA astronaut Victor Glover greets one of his youngest fans, 3-year-old Ezra Garrel.

Life -- NASA Image of the day - In this image, World View's Stratollite high-altitude balloon is inflated on the launch pad in Tucson, Arizona on April 9, 2022.

Business Wire -- Blue Canyon Technologies assisted in the deployment of Ascent, the company's first CubeSat spacecraft bus launched to a geostationary orbit.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - As drones become more common, so does the threat that they will be used for spying, harassment or terrorist threats. These engineering and technology approaches are being developed to prevent the use of drones for hostile acts.

Life -- Phys.org - Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Electrification has moved beyond automotive to encompass aviation, last-mile delivery, fleet transportation and more. Innovation in connectors is helping create the infrastructure to support an all-electric society.

Business Wire -- CAES, a leading provider of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, has won a full-rate Hardware Production and Sustainment (HP&S) award from Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a division of Raytheon Technologies to provide fully tested, Line...

Business Wire -- Jeff Babione, Executive for Lockheed Martin's Famed Skunk Works(r), Joins Sierra Space as Chief Operating Officer

Business Wire -- Kyocera integrates Walkie Talkie application in Microsoft Teams on its ultra-rugged 5G Smartphones for frontline workers.