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Microsoft vet and ex-Beats by Dre CEO lead new hardware-focused Seattle startup studio

GeekWire

Amish Patel, left, and Susan Paley recently launched Conduit Venture Labs, a new startup studio for hardware companies. Conduit Venture Labs Photo) Key Takeaways Conduit Venture Labs is a new startup studio in Seattle that aims to create a portfolio of hardware companies.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

” The longtime Microsoft hardware chief and executive vice president led the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams. He also led development of Windows 11. . “I’m forever grateful for my time at Microsoft and the amazing people I had the honor to make products with.”

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Apple Watch leak offers rare glimpse inside ‘Ultra security program’

The Verge

New images and video purporting to show an Apple Watch prototype, concealed by a security case that resembles a tiny iPod, offer a rare look behind the product-development curtain of the notoriously secretive company built by Steve Jobs. The original cardboard packaging used to ship the prototype hardware to testers. software build.

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White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design

Tech Republic

A new report promotes preventing cyberattacks by using memory-safe languages and the development of software safety standards.

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Apple reportedly working on iPhone hardware subscription

TechSpot

The program is being actively developed though no other specifics were mentioned. Bloomberg described the subscription service as Apple's biggest push to date into automatically recurring sales.

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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

Hardware for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi can be seen in the background. As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back.

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First Mode wins $1.8M contract to build hardware for Psyche mission to asteroid

GeekWire

million subcontract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build flight hardware for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft , which is due to conduct the first-ever up-close study of a metal-rich asteroid. The contract calls for the hardware to be delivered in early 2021. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU Illustration).

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