This week there has been news on problems with high profile mobile apps for politics and aviation. Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap Untested tech, no training, last-minute rollout, buggy code – sound familiar? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/04/iowa_caucus_software/ ‘We Feel Really Terrible,’ Says →
Cyberpunk 2020! Omg lasers directly into the retina! Lol! Whew. I think I’ll skip this one, but it is super rad. Check out this article: Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/bosch-ar-smartglasses-tiny-eyeball-lasers “Lightweight and slim, with a completely transparent display that’s brightly visible →
The USB Implementers Forum has announced the publication of USB4! The specification is available to download now as part of the document library of USB.org. USB Implementers Forum Announces the Publication of Its Thunderbolt 3-Based USB4 Standard article tells that USB 4 offers up to 40Gb/s throughput, PCI Express, and DisplayPort connectivity — plus compatibility →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in February 2020. I post links to security vulnerability news with short descriptions to comments section of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2020 posting. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Here are some 5G trends for year 2020: It looked like 5G and wireless dominated the airways in 2019. It seems that year 2020 will be a real test for 5G if it will really take on or fails to full-fill the big expectations. It seems that 5G networks are available at some place here →
Prediction articles: 2020: A consumer electronics forecast for the year(s) ahead AI Chips: What Will 2020 Bring? CEO Outlook: 2020 Vision: 5G, China and AI are prominent, but big changes are coming everywhere Top 10 Tech Failures From 2019 That Hint At 2020 Trends – Last year’s tech failures often turn into next year’s leading →
Here’s the surprising story behind the software that conquered the world, one slide at a time https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint PowerPoint is so ingrained in modern business life that the notion of it having a history at all may seem odd. But it does have a very definite lifetime as a commercial product that came onto the scene →
There is a quite new electrical safety standard you need to know: IEC 62368-1. If you are working with electronics design, you need to notify this new standard. IEC 62368 is an entirely new product safety concept: it isn’t a merger of existing standards, but it does cover the older standards IEC 60065 and IEC →
Here are some web trends for 2020: Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things. Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of →
https://www.idtech.com/blog/part-i-top-10-programmer-jokes-explained-for-the-rest-of-us Ahhhh…programmer humor! Hilarious to coders and completely baffling to the rest of us. Not a programmer? This article explains the punchlines of the following programmer jokes, for those of us who are dazed and confused. →