Shift from radar to GPS should make tracking faster and more accurate, allowing more planes in the air. From a report: Since World War II, air-traffic controllers have used radar to keep track of aircraft. But as of Jan. 1, most planes and helicopters flying in the U.S. must be equipped with transponders that allow…

There’s nothing quite like a deadline to cut through extras and get right at the heart of the problem. Maybe we should all follow Interpreet’s example and stop thinking about automating our homes and just make it in an eight-day hackathon. His talk at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference covers the zero-to-deployment home automation build he…

ISS astronauts could smell the cookies baking. …read more Source:: CNet

The flaw could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enter a password-protected video conference meeting. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Can you hear the cloudy cash registers ringing? Atlassian, continued its march into megabucks territory with a 37 per cent year-on-year rise in revenues for the quarter as subscriptions led the way.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Google’s latest design change to its search results received blowback from some who said it blurred the lines between search ads and regular search results. On Friday, Google responded, saying it will be experimenting with different designs, some that will not include the icons that make ads look similar to those organic search results. From…

Apple’s status page confirms the App Store was experiencing outages. …read more Source:: CNet

You may also get to watch a meerkat chow down on a cockroach named for your ex. …read more Source:: CNet

Findings from our recent survey show that there’s room for improvement. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Develop on Windows, deploy to Linux: an increasingly common pattern Microsoft’s second preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.5, freshly flung out this week, has better Linux support for C++ developers and also includes a new designer for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).… …read more Source:: TheRegister