Books by Marilyn Wolf

Aviation Week reports here on a program conducted at Lockheed’s fabled Skunk Works to develop a compact fusion reactor.

Tom’s Hardware reports here on an announcement by Boston University researchers of a flaw in the implementation of the BLE device advertising protocol on Windows 10, macOS, and iOS that they have used to track devices.  They note that the Android implementation uses a different approach that does not exhibit this vulnerability.

NASA

Fifty years ago today, this Saturn V booster roared off Launch Pad 39A with a half billion people around the world watching.  Atop the rocket, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins were prepped for lunar landing.  The launch of Apollo 11 marked the start of one of the most important events in human history and one for which the entire world cheered.  NASA.gov gives extensive coverage of the flight, including this post.

Aviation Week reports here on the evolution of the space suit.

Tom’s Hardware reports here on the performance improvements gained from operating a Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD rather than a microSD card.