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Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Celestron is making it easier for budding astronomers to explore the night sky with its new line of StarSense Explorer telescopes.  Models range from a 180 dollar refractor type telescope to a 400 dollar reflector.  What they have in common is that they pair with a smartphone app to guide you along.  The phone actually gets mounted on the telescope.  Celestron CEO Corey Lee..

“The app will guide you to objects in the sky with a little arrow.  You just follow the arrow on the screen on your smartphone.”

A smart solution to what is often a frustrating experience for new telescope owners.  And since you may want to star gaze in remote areas…where the night sky is at its best….the app does not require a cell or WiFi signal.  For more …head to www.celestron.com.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

Learn With Mochi teaches coding without screens: Founder Mark Pavlyukovskyy chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   An online site designed to help consumers find and purchase travel insurance has been a very busy place of late.  The Coronavirus has many consumers worried about planning travel for the summer…and even the fall and winter months…and so they are turning to InsureMyTrip.com…where Manager of Marketing and eCommerce Ronni Kenoian says for consumers who booked travel prior to January 21st….it is easier to put in a travel insurance claim…

“If you purchased your travel insurance plan after January 21st…cancel for any reason is your only option to have trip cancellation coverage due to Corona.”

That’s because the risks of the Coronavirus became public knowledge after January 21st.  Of course…buying insurance that lets you cancel your travel plans for any reason…is considerably more expensive.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin

Roybi robot personal tutor for at home learning: Founder-CEO Elnaz Sarraf in Techstination interview.

An app designed to improve hearing: AudioCardio CEO Chris Ellis chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The National Weather Service has announced plans to dramatically upgrade the computing power it uses to help make forecasts more precise…more localized….and even longer ranged.  Two new Cray computers each with 12 petaflop capacity….will become part of the system…beginning early in 2022.  National Weather Service Director of Central Processing David Michaud…says the capability is more important than ever…

“That’s really important for us to give the best possible information that we can to the decision makers in the community which will help to relay the impact to all of us that are living in these various communities so that we know what to do.”

Short term…and long term.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

Latest Retrospect back up solutions add more AI: GM J. G. Heithcock in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  What does it take to try to set the record for speed driving non stop across the country.  Obviously more than a touch of crazy.  But there is also an amazing amount of Mission Impossible type of planning.  Alex Roy has done it following in the footsteps…or tire tracks of the Cannonball Run and US Express …and now it has been chronicled in a documentary titled Apex: The Secret Race Across America….  Fourteen years in the making…

“When I learned what kind of people had done it..I knew that they were not professional race car drivers..I thought to myself, well I’m a pretty quantitative person… I’m going to give it a shot.  And we did.”

Back in 2007….driving coast to coast in 31 hours and four minutes.  Today…you can find Alex at Argo AI…an autonomous vehicle company… promoting safer mobility…. and on www.noparkingpodcast.com.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.