Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan’s space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said. Reuters: The $15 million satellite was built by Japan’s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar’s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace…

Nice to see politicos agree on something, even if it is ‘bipartisan dislike’ of China A change in occupancy at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue hasn’t done much for Huawei’s fortunes as the Biden administration looks set to toughen restrictions against the battered Chinese telecoms outfit.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Sick of third-party skill integration with Alexa and your smart home devices? Connect to them directly with the Zigbee protocol. …read more Source:: ZDNet

It’s with sadness that we note the passing at the age of 94 of the long-time Phillips engineer Lou Ottens, who is best known as the originator of the Compact Cassette audio tape format that was so ubiquitous through the later decades of the 20th century. Whether you remember cassettes as the format for 8-bit…

Plus, our very favorite meal kit service just dropped a huge new subscriber deal and we’re definitely clicking. …read more Source:: CNet

T-Mobile this week pledged that 200 million people in the U.S. will have access to a fast version of 5G wireless service by the end of the year, a far larger number than can be expected from AT&T or Verizon. From a report: Long the upstart challenger, T-Mobile has a strong network story when it…

How to watch without cable. …read more Source:: CNet

It won’t be long before Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson pair up on Disney Plus. Also, see the brand new character posters here. …read more Source:: CNet

Roscosmos and CNSA are moon buddies. …read more Source:: CNet

GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has reminded Brits to patch their Microsoft Exchange Server deployments against Hafnium attacks, 10 days after the US and wider infosec industry shouted the house down saying the same thing.… …read more Source:: Register