Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - THE INSTITUTE Autonomous vehicles are becoming smarter because they are being powered by computerization and artificial intelligence. They eventually will be able to communicate with each...

Business Wire -- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and FORMULA 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are introducing six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out through the 2021 racing season. The new additions mean a total...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - In December, we announced the beta of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.It's been incredible to see what happens when you put a powerful tool in developers'...

Business Wire -- Reveal Group's market leading expertise in delivering cognitive and intelligent automation services has been recognised by leading enterprise automation software company UiPath as a Diamond level Global Business Partner. Reveal Group...

Media -- Fast Company - A maker of "digital humans" for customer service and chat applications has developed a digital version of Albert Einstein that you can talk to, either by speaking or typing.

Media -- The Next Web - If you're one of the few people who frequently purchased movies through Google Play Movies and TV, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that Google appears to be killing off the Play Movies & TV app on a bunch of smart...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - After surprising many with the acquisition of Neverware, the developers of CloudReady, Google is now seeking to integrate it directly and officially into Chrome OS, according to a new Chromium Repository discovered by Kevin at About...

Tech -- BGR - The Pixel 5 rocks the mid-range Snapdragon 765G platform, a massive compromise Google made for its flagship series last year. Reports at the time said Google chose the 765G to save money and pass those savings to the customer. The 765G can't match...

Tech -- Addictive Tips - You've probably heard about ICMP and if you're just a smidge tech-savvy, you'll probably know (at least) that it has something to do with the Internet.

ICMP is actually a protocol, much like IP, TCP and UDP (which we previously discussed...

Business Wire -- Avaya (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today released the results of a new survey, "Life and Work Beyond 2020: The Change Makers," examining how attitudes and feelings toward home and...

Business Wire -- Redis Labs announced a $110 million Series G financing, led by Tiger Global, with participation by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and TCV.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based IC design houses including MediaTek, Elan Microelectronics and Integrated Technology Express (ITE) continue to enjoy a strong pull-in of orders for Chromebooks, which will boost their respective revenues to record highs in the...

Media -- eBOM - u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a leading global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has introduced a service that offloads the position calculation from IoT devices into the cloud.

The CloudLocate service will enable...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays is pictured attached to the space station.

Media -- Control.com News - To ensure consistent and rapid vaccine rollout, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technology aims to help Moderna medicine development and distribution operations.

Tech -- BGR - Apple will continue to equip more of its Macs with variations of the Apple M custom processor launched last November. The M1 powers the late 2020 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, with Apple planning to transition all of its Mac fleet to its own...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Google was roundly criticized last year for its decision to skip Qualcomm's high-end Snapdragon 865 chip. Instead, Google's Pixel 5 sported the cheaper 765 system-on-a-chip (SoC). The cheaper flagship Pixel was a risk, and it didn't pay...

Tech -- BGR - The coronavirus pandemic set everyone back in one way or another. We've put our lives on hold for a year or more just waiting for a vaccine to be developed, tested, and rolled out. On a personal level, we've lost time with friends and family and...

Media -- ELE Times - Spending 2020 under the shadow of a pandemic has affected what we need and expect from technology. For many, COVID-19 accelerated the rate of digital transformation: as employees worked from home, companies needed AI systems that facilitated...

Tech -- About Chromebooks - Well, that didn't take long. Back in December, news hit that Google acquired Neverware, creator of the Chromium OS-based CloudReady software that can give new life to old laptops and Chromebooks. Now, Google is quickly working to integrate...

Media -- Electronics Maker - New tests conducted by Spirent in a live sky environment demonstrate that some commercial GPS receiver models can be compromised by spoofing devices at 10m, 50m and 100m distance.

Tech -- Digital Trends - Samsung DeX is a great way to get a desktop experience from your phone, and the system is actually pretty versatile. Here are some of the best DeX features.

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - In the new AmateurLogic Shorts episode 2 Mike shares a great Pi project. MotionEyeOS turns your Raspberry Pi and camera into a motion tracking

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Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - South Korea said today it plans to use distributed ledger blockchain technology as part of its "Green Pass" COVID-19 vaccine documentation program for immunized citizens, also known as "vaccine passports." According to Reuters, Prime Minister...

Tech -- GeekWire - The news: Donuts, a domain name registry based in Bellevue, Wash., has been acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm based in Boston. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ethos Capital previously invested in Donuts last year.

What...

Tech -- Liliputing - Every Google Pixel smartphone to date has been powered by a Qualcomm processor. But the upcoming Google Pixel 6 could break the mold. According to a report from 9to5Google, it will be powered by a new GS101 processor code-named "Whitechapel,"...

Life -- Phys.org - ESA's M-Argo mission will be the first CubeSat to traverse interplanetary space under its own power. Due to launch in 2024-5, the suitcase-sized spacecraft will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, up to 150 million km away.

Life -- Phys.org - Europa Clipper, NASA's upcoming flagship mission to the outer solar system, has passed a significant milestone, completing its Critical Design Review. During the review, experts examined the detailed design of the spacecraft to ensure that...

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's InSight lander has detected two strong, clear quakes originating in a location of Mars called Cerberus Fossae-the same place where two strong quakes were seen earlier in the mission. The new quakes have magnitudes of 3.3 and 3.1; the...

Life -- Phys.org - NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during last fall's sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu...

Media -- FierceElectronics - Mars helicopter demo now set for as early as April 11

Tech -- TechCrunch - Microsoft is experiencing a major outage.

Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren't loading, and even the company's status pages were down. Worse, Microsoft's cloud service Azure appeared to also be offline, causing...

Tech -- Liliputing - Amazon's Fire tablets offer a lot of bang for the buck. With list prices starting as low as $50, they're cheaper than any iPad, and more affordable than most Samsung tablets. They often go on sale for even lower prices (this week Amazon is...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - For the second year in a row, it seems Google is choosing to sit on the sidelines for this year's April Fool's Day horseplay. Citing concerns over COVID-19 issues still gripping the country, Google has decided now may still not be the...

Infosec -- Record by Recorded Future - Google has announced plans today to restrict the ability of Android apps from seeing what other applications are installed on the same device, citing privacy and security reasons.

Tech -- Mashable - LG might finally be giving up on its smartphone business.

We've first heard the rumor back in January, when it was said that the company is looking into either selling, downsizing, or shuttering its money-losing mobile division.

Now, according...

Tech -- Wareable - Casio has launched its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS - the G-Squad Pro GSW-H1000 - aimed at sports and outdoors fanatics. We've seen smartwatches from Casio before. The Casio Pro-Trek range of Wear OS rugged smartwatches is now in...

Media -- Fast Company - Musicians and visual artists have long registered their work with the U.S. Copyright Office to prove it's theirs. But doing so is really little more than a person in a government office "witnessing" that a creation is associated with a...

Media -- Evertiq - Optics and optoelectronics technology company Zeiss has completed the construction of its new R&D, production, sales and customer service site in the San Francisco Bay Area.

FastCompany -- Up your touchpad game, access apps faster, record the screen, print wirelessly, and more.

Part of the appeal of handy-dandy Chromebooks is that they're so easy to use. Boot one up, sign in to your Google account, and . . . well, that's about it.Read Full...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Snehal Kundalkar is the chief technology officer at Valence. She has been leading Silicon Valley firms for the last two decades, including work...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA (which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power, high-brightness industrial blue lasers) has been awarded US patent no. 10,940,562 (for blue laser applications of welding copper...

Life -- Phys.org - A thermos bottle has the task of preserving the temperature-but sometimes you want to achieve the opposite: Computer chips generate heat that must be dissipated as quickly as possible so that the chip is not destroyed. This requires special...

Tech -- Addictive Tips - Collaborative tools exist to make work environments far more efficient and to help those that work remotely from one another.

However, this doesn't mean that collaborative tools are all work and no play, and one great example is Microsoft...

EE -- Hackaday - Everybody has a bucket list, things to be accomplished before the day we eventually wake up on the wrong side of the grass. Many bucket-list items are far more aspirational than realistic; very few of us with "A trip to space" on our lists...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Under the Hood - The Volkswagen Golf 8 is no fancy supercar. But it is the German carmaker's top-selling, high-volume model, packed with bells and whistles. It boasts a host of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) features and always-on connectivity,...

PR Newswire -- Meg Whitman, a technology leader and former head of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Mark Tatum, Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the National Basketball Association, are joining the Board of Directors of General Motors Co. (NYSE:...

PR Newswire -- Today MIT Technology Review announces the launch of season two of its award-winning podcast, In Machines We Trust, about the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence and the automation of everything. Hosted by Jennifer Strong, the...

Business Wire -- WP Engine today announced the release of its feature-length, award-winning documentary make|SHIFT.

Tech -- The Verge - Google and T-Mobile are announcing a huge partnership today, with the carrier agreeing to showcase a suite of Google's services on Android phones sold on the carrier's network. The list...