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Publications
TWB Author Honored With National ASBPE Win
Following a regional award, Tech Writers Bureau CEO John Breeden earned a silver medal at the national level from the 2018 American Society of Business Publication Editors. The award was recognition for an ongoing review series that Breeden is writing for CIO Magazine.
Open Wi-Fi gets a security upgrade
Adding opportunistic encryption to open Wi-Fi networks will add a layer of protection for users in public spaces without adding complexity.
Worth Reading: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
A bittersweet evocation of childhood discovery and loss by master creator-of-worlds Ray Bradbury.
NextGov Reports: DARPA Looking for Next Great, Crazy Idea
NextGov: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, believes that the next great warfighting idea might be hiding in the brain of some previously unknown professor or inventor. If that person might be you, then the agency wants to chat at the 2018 Proposer’s Day event.
Worth Reading: Beowulf
The grandfather of all sword-and-sorcery fantasy. If you like monsters, dragons, magic and swordplay—uninterrupted by mush and romance—this book is for you.
NASA Putting Helicopters, High Def Microphones on Mars
NextGov Column: The latest NASA Rover will be heading to Mars with some new gadgets and gear, namely a set of high-definition ears that will let us hear what the Red Planet sounds like, and an experimental helicopter that could greatly enhance future visits.
Worth Reading: Timberline—A story of Bonfils and Tammen by Gene Fowler
Two of the most colorful scamps in the history of journalism. They turned the failing Evening Post into Denver’s leading newspaper at the turn of the 20th century.
TWB Author Picks Up Silver ASBPE Award
Tech Writers Bureau CEO John Breeden earned a silver medal in the 2018 American Society of Business Publication Editor’s annual awards for his comprehensive review of new deception technology tools in CIO Magazine, about how it could protect today’s complex computing environments.
GovernmentCIO: AI Giving Everyone Digital Nukes
Artificial intelligence is at the core of what’s being called both the new space race and the new arms race, pitting global powers against each other to determine the ruler of the world. But while countries engage and posture, AI will soon give anyone the equivalent of a digital nuke.