Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

PhysOrg.com -- Google is launching a new text messaging system for its Android platform to challenge Apple's iMessage in smartphone text messaging supremacy.

BGR -- Facebook is currently going through the worst user privacy crisis in its history. The Cambridge Analytica privacy breached that was revealed...

PhysOrg.com -- Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo-all large machines...

PhysOrg.com -- Scientists are known for making dramatic predictions about the future - and sinister robots are once again in the spotlight now that artificial...

PhysOrg.com -- It's Saturday night and you've just finished watching the last episode of a Swedish crime drama that you somehow stumbled upon, although you...

gizmag -- When NASA's InSight mission to Mars lifts off on May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, it won't be alone. Nestled inside the Atlas V launcher...

BGR -- While the majority of the world is having fun watching Bitcoin go up and down faster than a yo-yo, companies are scrambling to get in on the...

gizmag -- Another small electric airplane took to the skies recently as Bye Aerospace announces that its prototype Sun Flyer 2 took to the air for the...

FastCompany -- As SYPartners' senior adviser and entrepreneur-in-residence, Sherri Leopard, 62, is often the oldest person in the room, and she explains why...

Slashdot -- Mac Rumors reports, citing Japanese website Mac Otakara, that Apple will release an updated iPhone SE next month with a similar form factor as...

Mashable! -- Electric-vehicle manufacturer Eli Electric has created a futuristic but odd-looking electric car. You can pre-order it today on ... Indiegogo?...

Code Geekz -- While developing versatile applications, businesses target Android because of its enormous overall portable operating system market share. Letters...

The Next Web -- Eyeo, the firm behind the popular AdBlock Plus plugin, just scored a major victory in Germany's Supreme Court. For the past few years, the firm...

The Next Web -- A bunch of Google employees participating in the company's Area 120 internal incubator have launched Grasshopper, a free mobile app for Android...

The Next Web -- Fitbit's had a rocky history with smartwatches. It wet its feet with the Surge in 2015, which followed up with the Blaze. Then there was last...

The Next Web -- Chromebooks are awesome. But they're also limited. For many people, it's impractical to only own a Chromebook, because sooner or later they'll...

ExtremeTech -- Like Essential, Razer has skipped the Android 8.0 release entirely, going straight to Android 8.1.

Girl Power: Female CEOs - Inc.com -- A customer support executive learns the hard way that it's a hugely dumb idea to shovel BS on the big guy.

AddictiveTips -- Many people think that easy dual-booting is reserved for operating systems like Linux Mint or Ubuntu, where everything is taken care of in the...

AddictiveTips -- VPNs are no longer seen as niche technical software these days. With the myriad of different threats to our online security and privacy, from...

LinuxGizmos.com -- Microsoft announced an "Azure Sphere" architecture for high-end microcontrollers that run a Linux-based Azure Sphere OS and include end-to-end...

Hack a Day -- I recently spent a largely sleepless night at a hotel, and out of equal parts curiosity and boredom, decided to kill some time scanning the guest...

collectSPACE -- Eleven years after he directed "In the Shadow of the Moon," a documentary about the Apollo astronauts, filmmaker David Sington has collaborated...

PR Newswire: High Tech Security -- RazerTM, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, today announced the release of Android 8.1 Oreo on the Razer Phone. A phased rollout...

Business Wire: Hardware -- Fitbit, Inc. (NYSE: FIT) the leading global wearables brand, announced today the availability of Fitbit Versa(tm) at major retailers worldwide...

Business Wire: Software -- Adblock Plus parent, eyeo GmbH, wins Supreme Court ruling in its favor. Ad blocking and whitelisting are declared fair and legal.

VentureBeat - dev -- The Microsoft Store is "out of stock" for Windows Phone products, which are powered by Windows 10 Mobile. Both the HP Elite x3 and the Alcatel...

BGR -- Apple is preparing to launch the second-edition iPhone SE this spring, a new report says, and it will come complete with a few radical design...

BGR -- Google's Pixel smartphone line might not consist of the best-selling handsets on the market, but what they lack in sales they make up for in...

BGR -- Ever since Apple rolled out iMessages, Google has been trying to catch up, but the company never managed to come up with an instant messaging...

BGR -- If you're not using two-factor authentication on every single important online account, especially including your primary email account, you...

BGR -- Android has been the dominant operating system on mobile for years. Every other alternative, aside from Apple's iOS, vanished, as most device...

BGR -- It's difficult to call the response to Apple's iPhone X tepid considering the phone has made three times more money than every major Android...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The sixth-generation iPad is everything you could want in a tablet, for a fraction of the price.

Military -- NASA - Students from Coral Gables, Florida, and the Texas Gulf Coast will talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station next week...

Web Marketing -- CMS Wire - Every day seems to bring a new outrageous headline with promises of artificial intelligence's superpowers. The hype is very high...

Web Marketing -- CMS Wire - Consumer and workplace chatbots share the same technology, but there are some fundamental differences between the two. Consumer...

GeekWire -- Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by Apple. That...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - This colorful image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory's 28th anniversary...

Enterprise -- Computerworld - You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with powerful and practical...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Motorola's path is clear: Build inexpensive phones with features normally found in high-end phones.

Enterprise -- The Register - NASA: Been there, done that

While waiting for TESS to get off the launchpad on Monday, chief exec Elon Musk joked on Twitter about...

BGR -- Apple's iPhone line is the most popular smartphone line in the world, so it's not exactly a surprise that companies out there have made all kinds...

BGR -- The "technology of the future" is constantly changing. Remember when Google Glass was the future and venture capitalists launched huge funds...

BGR -- On Monday morning, the US Department of Commerce hit Chinese phone-maker ZTE with a seven-year ban on any American technology. Under the terms...

BGR -- The fact that Google's Android P will support iPhone X-like notches isn't surprising, given that most Android device makers out there want to...

Web Marketing -- CMS Wire - Complex customer engagements require thoughtful and on-point project management. Project management helps achieve the consistent...

Web Marketing -- CMS Wire - Most employers do not feel threatened by artificial intelligence. According to recent data from work benefits giant MetLife, 56...

Infosec -- Cyberogism - Recently, Google decided to take its Google Assistant app to a whole new level, by allowing device makers to add custom commands....

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Amazon is giving the average layperson the option to program basic Alexa skills.