Archive for February, 2012

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Google almost done buying Motorola, MySpace is back, PS Vita might become a phone OS, and more.

Guest: Russ Pitts

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Running time: 43:04

In 1895 – French patent No. 245,032 was issued for appareil servant à l’obtention et à la vision des épreuves chrono-photographiques, AKA the Cinématographe, a combined motion-picture camera and projector.

In 1946 – ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) the first practical, all-electronic computer was unveiled at the Univ. of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of
Electronics. The New York Times carried the report the next day.

In 2004 – Astronomers announce the discovery of BPM37093 which they also gave the nickname Lucy. It was a pulsating white dwarf star 50 light-years from Earth that also seemed to be the biggest diamond in the Universe.

In 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for the first time in public at the Salem Lyceum Hall. The demonstration ended with the sending of the first telephone news dispatch which was received by the Boston Globe.

In 1973 – Along Interstate 71 in Ohio, the first metric distance road signs to be erected in the US were put in place. They informed of the distance between Colubus and Cleveland and Columbus and Cincinnati.

In 2001 – the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on 433 Eros after transmitting 69 close up pictures. It became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane

Iran blocks the Internet, How bad is ACTA? and Google Wallet woes, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time: 43:16

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

New iPad, Google takes on Dropbox, what Windows on ARM will and will not have, and more.

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Running time: 51:26

In 1847 – Proud parents Samuel and Nancy welcomed their seventh and last child into the world. Thomas Edison would grow up to embody the word inventor.

1970, With the launch of Osumi 5, Japan became the fourth country (after the US, USSR and France) to place a satellite into orbit.

In 1997 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launched on Mission STS-82 with the objective of making significant upgrades to the scientific capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope. The upgrades helped turn the Hubble from a punchline, to one of the greatest telescopes ever created.

In 1958 – Scientists at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT bounced radar signals off the planet Venus, calling it the first measurement of interplanetary distances.

In 1996 – Chess’s international grandmaster Garry Kasparov began a six game match against IBM’s Deep Blue. Deep Blue won the first game the first time that a current world champion had ever been beaten by a computer opponent under regular tournament conditions. But Kasparov took the match 4-2.

In 2009 – One of Motorola’s communication satellites Iridium 33 collided with defunct Russian satellite Kosmos-2251 destroying both. It was an unprecedented space collision.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

This Week in Google host Gina Trapani comes on the show to talk all about, open source programming, days at lifehacker, is code poetry or poetry code? And much more.

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Running time: 00:56:37

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Windows 8 coming soon, iPhone bankrupts another carrier, Boxee fights evil, and more.

Guest: Ina Fried

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Running time: 46:26

In 1870 – US President Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill authorizing “the Secretary of War to take observations at military stations and to warn of storms on the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.” This agency operating under the Signal Service eventually became the National Weather Service.

1969 – The Queen of the Skies, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet took flight for the first time. It was the first wide-body plane ever produced.

1995 – Dr. Bernard Harris became the first African-American to walk in space. Joining him, Michael Foale became the first British-born American to walk in space.