Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Media -- PYMNTS.com - J.P. Morgan Chase has established a new business unit dedicated to blockchain and digital currency work, a move that coincides with the recent profitability of its stablecoin, according to a CNBC report on Tuesday (Oct. 26).

The new business...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Amazon reports earnings on Thursday (Oct. 29) and it has an impossible act to follow. With its Q2 earnings reaping every benefit of the pandemic-driven digital-first economy, it set a new standard for exploding past earnings estimates with...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Before anyone was privy to the fact that Google was going on a re-branding frenzy, services like Google One, Photos, Home, Lens, Wifi, Shopping, Fit, Fi, Maps, TV and more all received new icons that focused on simple shapes and primary...

Tech -- TechCrunch - In the distant past, there was a proverbial "digital divide" that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn't.[1] Young Gen Xers and their later millennial companions grew up with Power Macs and Wintel...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Managing one's data well can be quite difficult in today's world where every time you turn around, someone else is asking you to sign up for another subscription service or to create another account that requires you to store yet another...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - With tech companies announcing plans to continue allowing-and even encouraging-employees to work remotely beyond the end of the pandemic, the U.S. Defense Innovation Board has urged the Department of Defense to improve its own work from...

Media -- The Next Web - The Moon was for a long time considered to be bone dry, with analyses of returned lunar samples from the Apollo missions showing only trace amounts of water. These traces were in fact believed to be due to contamination on Earth. But over...

gizmag -- After 34 years of service, during which it clocked up 933,614 flight hours, the United States Marine Corps is retiring its fleet of 179 Bell AH-1W "Super Cobra" attack helicopters, though some have been converted to their successor, the AH-1Z Viper.Continue...

Enterprise -- OMG! Ubuntu! - Ubuntu 20.10 is the first version of Ubuntu desktop to support the Raspberry Pi. Other versions of Ubuntu have been produced for the popular single-board computer over the years but these have been stripped down, [...]

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Graph database developer Neo4j Inc. is upping its machine learning game today with a new release of Neo4j for Graph Data Science framework that leverages deep learning and graph convolutional neural networks to make data about graph connections...

Enterprise -- Architects Zone - Identity Management: Anypoint Platform

You can configure identity management in the Anypoint Platform to set up users for single sign-on (SSO). There are two ways to configure identity management using one of the following single sign-on...

collectSPACE -- NASA's first try at collecting samples off an asteroid resulted in a significant amount of material, so much so that the OSIRIS-REx probe overflowed with particles from the space rock. To curtail the leak, NASA halted its planned activities and moved...

Tech -- GeekWire - Apollo 17's lunar rover sits at its resting place at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. (NASA Photo)Three spots on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission.

The thumbs-up,...

Tech -- The Verge - Buying a refurbished device rather than one that's brand-new can save you a ton of money. However, these products don't usually get the spotlight from retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, or B&H Photo....

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - As this article goes to press, Hurricane Delta is making landfall not far from where Hurricanes Sally and Laura came ashore earlier in the season. I live on the East Coast of the United States,...

U.S. News -- The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal that has operated continuously for 50 years.

Aspencore -- EETimes - Whether your car uses an internal combustion engine (ICE), is a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), or even a pure electric vehicle (EV), it is possible to use it as basic energy source to provide some AC power to your home in an outage, right? Well,...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - The coronavirus pandemic required drastic lifestyle changes - many of which will persist for the foreseeable future. It also encouraged people to see that new ways of doing things might actually be better than their old methods.

For example,...

Web Marketing -- Quick Sprout - WordPress powers a huge portion of the Internet.

How much is that exactly? According to W3Techs, more than 38% of all websites on the Internet use WordPress as their content management system (CMS).

To compare, the next most popular CMS...

Web Marketing -- Digital Commerce 360 - The U.S. Justice Department sued Alphabet Inc.'s Google in the most significant antitrust case against an American company in two decades, kicking off what promises to be a volley of legal actions against the search...

Life -- Lifehacker - We write about web browsers at lot at Lifehacker-so much that I feel as if talking about the latest Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari features is a weekly kind of a conversation you and I have. I confess, even I get a little fatigued, but...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample collection mission performed a successful "Touch-And-Go" (TAG) maneuver.

Life -- Phys.org - The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft arrived to the International Space Station just three hours after launch on 14 October, with Roscosmos astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on board.

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - I've used Google Fi since it launched and I'm pretty happy with it for the most part. That being said, I normally just pay outright for my phones because I hate being locked into an extra contract for the hardware. It looks like Google...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan's telecom and channel operators are to face short supply of the iPhone 12 lineup when they begin to deliver the devices to pre-registered consumers on October 24, with market sources saying that the shortfalls are likely to be solved...

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - Congratulations to Clint Frost, W2BL of Owens Cross Roads, AL. Clint was randomly selected as winner of the AmateurLogic.TV 15th Anniversary contest!

Thanks to all who participated in the contest and thanks for watching AmateurLogic.

Watch...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - According to Jon Peddie Research, information workers, designers, and engineers can realize up to a 42 percent increase in productivity by using multiple displays. In layman terms, whether you're coding, sketching, studying, or even gaming,...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Odds are very good that you're reading this article in Google Chrome, which has dominated the browser market for years. Since Chrome launched, Microsoft has killed Internet Explorer, launched Edge, killed Edge, and launched a version of...

Tech -- BGR - The International Space Station had a number of breakdowns and malfunctions on Monday night.

A toilet, oven, and oxygen supply system all broke down within hours of each other.

The breakdowns were fixed and the crew is not in any danger.

The...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - PayPal has announced that it is jumping into the wild world of cryptocurrency, making it possible for wallet holders to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin in their PayPal accounts. And starting...

Media -- The Next Web - Capiche is a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the SaaS industry more transparent, together. "You should...commence the conversation by saying 'Hulloa!'" suggested the...

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's InSight lander continues working to get its "mole"-a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe-deep below the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight's arm recently took images of the now partially filled-in "mole hole,"...

Tech -- TechCrunch - As companies have moved to work from home this year, working on the internet has become the norm, and it turns out that Chrome OS was an operating system built for cloud-based applications. But most enterprise use cases are a bit more complex,...

Tech -- TechCrunch - At its MAX conference, Adobe today announced the launch of the latest version of Lightroom, its popular photo management and editing tool. The highlights of today's release are the introduction of a new color grading tool that's more akin...

Tech -- BGR - NASA's Curiosity rover was drilling into a curious rock when it accidentally cracked.



The crack isn't a big deal, and the sample was still able to be studied by the rover.



NASA's Perseverance rover is currently headed to the Red Planet for a landing...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - My nephew recently sent me an email about our latest shared obsession: Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2020. "Flying a Cessna 152 in this game feels exactly like flying one in real life," he wrote....

Electronics -- Gumstix - Your next embedded hardware platform won't make it to market without a powerful computing platform, and the long-awaited Raspberry Pi CM4 is here to provide the computing power you need. Gumstix now offers a custom-built Raspberry Pi CM4 Development...

Electronics -- Gumstix - New products for embedded systems and development tools hit the market all the time, but perhaps none has been so anticipated in the embedded community as the Raspberry Pi CM4. This computer-on-module (COM) takes the capabilities in the Raspberry...

Infosec -- CyberScoop - FBI Director Christopher Wray once called the 2018 midterm elections a "dress rehearsal for the big show" of protecting the 2020 presidential election from foreign interference.

The big show is finally here, and American officials say they...

Globe Newswire -- Parallels, a global leader in cross-platform solutions, today launched Parallels(r) Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise (parallels.com/chrome), the world's first software that runs Windows directly on enterprise Chromebooks. This software enables full-featured...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - News Tuesday (Oct. 20) that Google faces an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice - focused on the core search business - makes us wonder what, if anything, might happen to other business lines that, though nascent, represent bids...

Media -- The Next Web - The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code - not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death. - Guido van Rossum Python is one of...

Media -- eeNews Europe - The I/O Module 16 from STV Electronic works with the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ based DIN rail PC. STV Electronic in Germany has launched a smart digital I/O expansion module for its Raspberry Pi 3 B+ based DIN rail PC.

The I/O Module 16...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Apple is reporting high demand for iPhone 12 preorders, surpassing last year's iPhone 11 preorders, according to a report in CNBC on Monday (Oct. 19).

Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities told CNBC that a comparison of...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - New research from Microsoft shows that productive employees won't be enough for businesses to remain innovative.

Enterprise -- SAP - There are many challenging things about 2020, but participating in the Eagles Autism Challenge and SAP's Autism at Work Symposium for the third year in a row was not one of them. While virtual, this year's event did not disappoint.

On September...

Enterprise -- OMG! Ubuntu! - The latest update to the Vivaldi web browser comes with an arcade game baked inside. You're not misreading me; I did say an arcade game. The bods behind the Chromium-based web browser clearly weren't content [...]

This post, Vivaldi Browser...

Enterprise -- ChannelLife New Zealand - The new ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise aims for maximum flexibility for the hybrid working environment.

gizmag -- The companies building the UK's Tempest sixth-generation fighter aircraft have revealed some of the technological concepts that it will incorporate, including a radar system designed to handle as much data per second as a city.Continue ReadingCategory:...

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - AmateurLogic.TV Episode 148 is now available for download.

Celebrating 15 Years of AmateurLogic.

Peter, VK3PB joins for an update. Tommy is Getting Started With The IC-705. George has some Simple and Useful Transistor Projects. Emile...