Seems like the weather demands yet more attention. At the time of this writing on February 15, Dallas is six degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska. Houston is only one degree warmer than the Alaskan city 4,132 miles to the northwest. New York City is 23 degrees warmer than Dallas.

Football’s over until next fall, but old guys on couches all over the world feel better about themselves thanks to Tom Brady winning his seventh Super Bowl at the age of 84, er, 43.

Football fans are thrilled yet sad: The Super Bowl is two weeks away, but that means the end of games for months and months.

IoTP Insight: Developing an IoT device today means you must also develop the link to send the data to finish the project. Avnet just brought its HoriZone RA development kit to the Americas.

Finally, we say hello to 2021! Or, better, we say goodbye and good riddance to 2020. Either way, football playoffs, both college and NFL, are on track, and the NBA is well underway. So far, so good, and so good is how to describe all the fun newsbits we found for you.

This is Christmas week for many people around the world, and thanks to 2020, few places in America will have a snowy white Christmas, but many will be in the deep freeze. Cleveland, being Cleveland, may get some snow along with a temperature around 20 degrees.

We’re getting close to New Year’s Day and we wonder how many of the cartoons will show the spiky coronavirus on Old Man Year 2020? Maybe a crown? Maybe a virus toga, since for some reason the cartoons usually show the old year like an ancient Greek philosopher?

We’ve learned many new things this year, including that we can have too many hurricanes for the list of approved names. What happens after that? We start on the Greek alphabet. Hurricane Beta is hitting Texas and Louisiana this evening.

Experimental studies would assert the possibility that PM10 may act as a “carrier” for the spreading of the viral infection of COVID-19.

A wearable band and iOS app to trace contacts, enable social distancing, report active cases, and inform potential exposure by an instant alert.