Day: December 9, 2019

Microsoft Will Shut Down To-do App Wunderlist on May 6

Over two and a half years after Microsoft said it’d one day kill to-do service Wunderlist in favor of its own To Do app, it has revealed when it’ll drop the ax: May 6th. From a report: After that time, Wunderlist’s to-do lists won’t sync anymore and you’ll have a limited time to export lists…


Hackaday Superconference: An Analog Engineer Dives Into RF

Those of us who work with electronics will usually come to the art through a particular avenue that we master while imbibing what we need from those around it. For example, an interest in audio circuitry may branch into DSP and microcontrollers as projects become more complex. Some realms though retain an aura of impossibility,…


Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

Plus: Commercial crew news and NASA publishes what ISRO won’t Round Up SpaceX landed another Falcon 9, Rocket Lab took a first step toward reuse, and it was handbags at dawn for lunar boffins in this week’s curation of all things space.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Microsoft ito shut down its Wunderlist to-do app in May 2020

Microsoft has been working to replace Wunderlist with its To Do app. Next May, the transition will be officially complete. …read more Source:: ZDNet


At long last, WireGuard VPN is on its way into Linux

For years, developers have been working on this new take on the virtual private network, and now it’s finally ready to go. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer brings the supernatural to a new generation – CNET

Who you gonna call? Finn Wolfhard and Paul Rudd in the new Ghostbusters trailer. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you’re all still grumbling about a headphone jack

They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst widely regarded as the most accurate soothsayer when it comes to Apple’s product intentions, reckons it’s lights out for the Lightning cable.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


These are the 25 most important apps of the decade, from Tinder to Twitter – CNET

From games to social media to dating: These 25 apps had the most impact on our lives in the last 10 years. …read more Source:: CNet


African Countries Are Struggling To Build Robust Identity Systems

The first thing that visitors to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg see is a wall of identity cards– the pieces of paper that determined where people could live and work and whom they could love. From the outset, the apartheid regime’s ability to discriminate against “nie-blankes” (non-whites) depended on having a robust system of identifying…


Can You Piezo A Peugeot?

Car manufacturers have a problem when it comes to climate change. Among the variety of sources for extra atmospheric CO2 their products are perhaps those most in the public eye, and consequently their marketing departments are resorting to ever more desperate measures to sanctify them with a green aura. Among these are the French marque…