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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Hot new cameras from Photokina, Samsung leaks new phone release, Yahoo snubs RIM, and more. Guests: Raj Deut Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today’s episode. We...
Continue Reading »In 1822 – Jean-François Champollion, permanent secretary of the French Académie des Inscriptions, presented his Lettre a M. Dacier, describing his solution to the mystery of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone. A nifty bit of decryption. In 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was posted to a Finnish...
Continue Reading »In 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, was introduced at the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York City. ONe caught fire. The demo that was carried live on television did not catch fire. In 1985 – Steve Jobs spent his last day as an employee of Apple after submitting his resignation to...
Continue Reading »Sports all of many kinds has existed across timelines and realities in many forms from the simple to the unfathomably complex. The Portllflliaxx of the Transitive Continua play an extremely complicated sport, roughly described as a combination of the board game Go, Cricket, Team Handball and Synchronised Aerial Acrobatics. Its combination of automatic scoring...
Continue Reading »In 1947 – The Association for Computing Machinery was founded as the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery at a meeting at Columbia University in New York. It developed into the world’s largest organization of computer professionals. In 1947 – RCA released the 12AX7 vacuum tube for public sale. The miniature dual triode vacuum tube...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell iPhones 5 and simultaneous data and calls, how to make a phone, Intel blows your mind, and more. Guests: Andy Ihnatko and Brian Cooley Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes...
Continue Reading »Take a look, he’s not in a book, he’s on Sword & Laser! LeVar Burton joins us to discuss his favorite novels, the future of Reading Rainbow, and what one line he’d strike from our memory of Star Trek: The Next Generation. More about our guest, LeVar Burton! Webpage: http://levarburton.com/On Twitter: https://twitter.com/levarburtonReading Rainbow App: http://www.rrkidz.com/ Show Notes: ...
Continue Reading »In 1959 – After 33.5 hours of flight, Luna 2 became the first human-made object to strike the moon. In 2000 – Microsoft released Windows ME. The ME stood for MIllenium Edition but deserving or not, would eventually become code for a bad or unnecessary OS update. In 2001 – The Nintendo GameCube went...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Nintendo gets real about the Wii U, HTTPS has a crack in mobile security, streaming music kills the Earth, and more. Guests: Randall Bennett Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Is Apple’s latest worth the hype? What Zuck really said about HTML5, Intel’s latest pitch to revive the PC, and more. Guests: Kevin Purdy and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check...
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