While Conrad led the way, Bean watched the ground for something interesting. It wasn’t easy to do field geology while running, and on the moon.

When I saw the second generation of the Oura smart ring (https://ouraring.com/) at the Wearable Technology Show (http://www.wearabletechnologyshow.net/), I was impressed. The Oura team has managed to cram their smart ring with everything you’d expect to find in an activity tracker – motion, pulse, temperature. What you might have expected to wear on your wrist, you can now wear on your finger, and it looks like a piece of jewellery, not a tech gadget.

And while steps and pulse rate are interesting, the Oura ring isn’t only about the day and motion. It continues the prevalent theme of getting a good night’s sleep. The smart ring measures in detail blood flow, motion and temperature to track sleep, and the Oura app shows the wearer their sleep patterns, including the amount of deep sleep. With this information, the wearer can adjust their behaviours before bedtime and see the impact of the changes the next day via the Oura app (available for iOS and Android). The ring syncs wirelessly via Bluetooth to nearby smartphones.

Like jewellery, there’s plenty of choice in the models and colours. There are three models; Heritage, Balance and Balance Diamond, and four colours; silver, black, and premium rose and stealth. Not all combinations of model and colour are available – check here (https://ouraring.com/#technology).

The Heritage and Balance models are priced at US$299 / 314€ and the Balance Diamond is US$999 / 1049€. Yes, those are real diamonds. Pre-orders are open now with delivery expected in June or July for orders taken now. There’s $50 / 50€ for orders before end of April.

There’s more in my interview with Marjo and Hannu, Oura’s Chief Scientific Officer.

Ok, so the Oura ring doesn’t show the time, but I’ve a perfectly good wristwatch for that.

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At NAB 2018, I got to go live with the folks at Epiphan to learn more about their line of streaming products. We use the Webcaster x2 at vBrownBag, and we also streamed live using the X2.

Epiphan Avio Capture Cards

HDMI, SDI, and DVI Avio USB capture devices are available for single stream capture – up to 4K 30fps or 1080p 60fps. Other resolutions in 4:3 TV, 16:9 Widescreen, 16:10 and 5:4 monitor.

Pearl and Pearl Mini

These are smaller switchers for 2 HD source video. You can connect any type of camera to stream, and even configure it for overlays, text, and more.

Webcaster x2

A simple way to connect your HDMI source to YouTube, Facebook Live, and Vimeo (just announced). Program the box to your settings, link up your accounts, then simply hit a button to start streaming. You can even use a USB webcam for picture in picture video.

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“Safespaces” Is The First Open Source VR Desktop Environment For Linux

Source: https://fossbytes.com/safespaces-first-open-source-vr-desktop-linux/ (https://fossbytes.com/safespaces-first-open-source-vr-desktop-linux/)

Mozilla Just Announced An Open Source Virtual Reality Browser: “Firefox Reality”

Source: https://fossbytes.com/mozilla-firefox-reality-vr-ar-browser/ (https://fossbytes.com/mozilla-firefox-reality-vr-ar-browser/)

MIT Researchers Create ‘AlterEgo’ Headset That Interprets User’s Thoughts

Source: https://fossbytes.com/mit-researchers-alterego-headset-silent-speech/ (https://fossbytes.com/mit-researchers-alterego-headset-silent-speech/)

Valve insists there’s still life in Steam Machines and Linux gaming

Source: https://www.techradar.com/news/valve-insists-theres-still-life-in-steam-machines-and-linux-gaming (https://www.techradar.com/news/valve-insists-theres-still-life-in-steam-machines-and-linux-gaming)

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.16

Source: https://fossbytes.com/linux-kernel-4-16-released-features-download/ (https://fossbytes.com/linux-kernel-4-16-released-features-download/)

Linux 4.17 Shredding 500,000 Lines Of Code, Killing Support For Older CPUs

Source: https://fossbytes.com/linux-kernel-dropping-support-older-cpus-reducing-size/ (https://fossbytes.com/linux-kernel-dropping-support-older-cpus-reducing-size/)

Facebook Now Says Data Leak Affected 87 Million Users, Not 50 Million

Source: https://fossbytes.com/facebook-cambridge-analytica-87-million-users-data/ (https://fossbytes.com/facebook-cambridge-analytica-87-million-users-data/)

In this podcast (http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode186/RFHPC186gtc2.mp3), the Radio Free HPC team reviews the highlights of the GPU Technology Conference.From Rich's perspective, the key HPC announcement centered around new NVIDIA DGX-2 (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-2/) supercomputer with the NVSwitch (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/) interconnect.The rapid growth in deep learning workloads has driven the need for a faster and more scalable interconnect, as PCIe bandwidth increasingly becomes the bottleneck at the multi-GPU system level. NVLink is a great advance to enable eight GPUs in a single server, and accelerate performance beyond PCIe. But taking deep learning performance to the next level will require a GPU fabric that enables more GPUs in a single server, and full-bandwidth connectivity between them.NVIDIA NVSwitch is the first on-node switch architecture to support 16 fully-connected GPUs in a single server node and drive simultaneous communication between all eight GPU pairs at an incredible 300 GB/s each. These 16 GPUs can be used as a single large-scale accelerator with 0.5 Terabytes of unified memory space and 2 petaFLOPS of deep learning compute power.”For more details on DGX-2, check out our insideHPC interview with NVIDIA's Marc Hamilton (https://insidehpc.com/2018/04/inside-new-nvidia-dgx-2-supercomputer-nvswitch/).  Henry Newman and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatAfter that, we do our Catch of the Week.Download the MP3 (http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode186/RFHPC186gtc2.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/aVzHNQ1H60c)

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The ZBook is more powerful than ever for anyone needing to run higher-end graphics programs. A whole line of new convertibles with Wacom Pen, and a new detachable keyboard tablet give you versatility in your creations.

The new line of ZBook include convertible and detachable PCs. With 8th gen Intel 6 cores, AMD Radeon graphics, and Dreamcolor 4K display with 600 NITS RGB. A Wacom AES pen is available for artists and other creators. Higher end ZBook models come with a removable back side to upgrade memory, change the battery, and more.

The ZBook x2 detachable comes with the same features, Quad core processor, along with the same features as the other ZBook notebooks, the detachable keyboard turns on the Bluetooth so you can continue to use the keyboard. Macro buttons on the side allow for quick switches when the keyboard is not available.

HP also won best of show at NAB for their DreamColor Monitor. The ZDreamColor 27x gives 1 billion colors in RGB, and an exact color correction for all content creators.

Prices of the ZBook start at $949. The x360 starts at $1,499, the detachable is not priced yet, and the DreamColor 27x is $1999.

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It’s well established now that blue light (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-why-is-blue-light-before-bedtime-bad-for-sleep/) has a disruptive effect on sleep as it affects the production of melatonin more than any other wavelength of light but it’s not only effect of light in the hour before bedtime that’s important. Much of our day is spent indoors in often poor quality light conditions. But how bad is it? The Lys (https://lystechnologies.co.uk/) light tracker can help with that, and I find out more from Christina, CEO and Founder, at the Wearable Technology Show (http://www.wearabletechnologyshow.net/).

UK firm Lys Technologies (https://lystechnologies.co.uk/) have developed Lys as a light tracker for the indoor generation and physically it’s a small round device that clips onto clothing. The intention is that you get Lys as close as possible to your eyes so that the tracker receives a similar amount of light radiation. Lys not only measures the intensity of light falling on it, but also the quality, which for light is represented by its wavelength. Most of us are familiar with the light spectrum which runs from infrared through the ultraviolet but white light is not a single colour: it’s made up of many colours (remember the experiment with the prism in school?). By slightly adjusting the composition of the light, you can end up with bluish whites and warm (reddish) whites – you might have seen these descriptions on LED lighting.

The other side of the coin is that humans have a circadian rhythm that’s aligned to the 24 hours of the day (give or take). This rhythm is reinforced by daylight received in the eyes but as we now spend so much of our time indoors, sometimes the rhythm becomes disrupted and we have difficulty sleeping. One of the key differences between natural and artificial light is that daylight is “full spectrum” with a broad range of wavelengths, whereas most bulbs only approximate daylight with a smaller number of wavelengths.

Anyway, that’s all by-the-bye. The important thing is that the Lys tracker can measure the light falling on it during the day, and provide this information to you via an app, showing you the quality, intensity and duration of the light. This guides you to help get the “right light” to reinforce the circadian rhythms and get a good night’s sleep.

Just in case you are wondering, Lys means light in Danish, and is a nod to Christina’s Danish roots.

The Lys tracker is available to purchase now (https://lystechnologies.co.uk/#wearable) for GB£89 but what I’m most interested in are some of the possible future developments where information from Lys is fed into smart lighting systems like Philips Hue or LIFX which can adjust their colours to prepare you for bed. That’s really where the smart home becomes smart.

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Some tech travel tips, Security for different business clients, Exchange server maintenance, Career advice

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Specialists in wearable technology, Thrive Wearables (https://thrivewearables.com/) helps companies and entrepreneurs take ideas and concepts through to finished products. At the Wearable Technology Show (http://www.wearabletechnologyshow.net/), I chat with Jacob, Thrive’s founder, about their design service and the challenges facing the wearable market in 2018.

To understand what Thrive do, think of a big company that sells goods that aren’t electronic in any way. Say, clothes or shoes. The clothier can see complementary wearables as an opportunity but has no knowledge or experience in the space. In this instance, it can turn to Thrive Wearables to help deliver the imagined product without the need to develop in-house skills.

Alternatively, the Thrive team can mentor startups to get their ideas to a prototype. The startup can then seek the funding needed to take the prototype to finished product.

For example, Thrive worked with BioSelf (http://bioself.technology/) on their Sensate (https://www.getsensate.com/) stress management wareable which is currently in a beta phase and taking pre-orders.

Looking to the future, Jacob sees wearable tech disappearing into clothing and becoming more modularised and seamless. Key to delivering this change are higher quality sensors, better power sources and improved communication networks. Here’s to the next few years.

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