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3D Printing and Space: A Step Towards Self-Sufficient Space Missions

By Dick Weisinger

Advances in technology are making the idea of space exploration for commercial and recreational purposes a viable idea. The cost of launching anything into space is expensive, but the cost of space launches and travel is dropping. Ten years ago,…

Ambient Computing: Invisible Computers Ready to Fulfill Our Every Need

By Dick Weisinger

Ambient Computing is about removing direct interactions with a computer. It about computing that happens without the user even aware that a computer was involved. For better or worse, ambient computing is part of a campaign by technology companies to…

Love Your Admin: SysAdmin Appreciation Day is Tomorrow

By Dick Weisinger

Tomorrow, July 29th and the last Friday in July, is System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD), also known as Sysadmin Day. It is an annual event created by Ted Kekatos, systems engineer at Netrix. The event was created to show appreciation…

Security: Add EV Charging Stations to the List of Cyber-Vulnerable

By Dick Weisinger

Anything that can connect to a public network is hackable. The weaknesses of IoT device security has been widely discussed. More recently, concerns about infrastructure have started to increase. And now, even electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have been found…

Oracle Teams Up With Microsoft: On the Road to Multi-Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft and Oracle are no longer enemies. Much of that has to do with the change in leadership at Microsoft from Steve Ballmer to Satya Nadella. The earlier days of Microsoft were aggressive when it marked its competitors as ‘enemies’.…