Archive for April, 2012

In 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artist, inventor and engineer in history, was born near the Tuscan town of Vinci.

In 1892 – The Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company merge to form the General Electric Company, manufacturer of dynamos and electric lights.

In 1977 – The first West Coast Computer Faire takes place in Palo Alto. The star of the show would turn out to be the Apple II. The computer featured a built-in keyboard, 16 kilobytes of memory, BASIC, and eight expansion slots all for $1,300.

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

RIM fired it’s best ideas, Windows 8 on an iPad, why CISPA is worse than SOPA, and more.

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Running time: 50:43

In 1894 – Alfred Tate, a former Edison associate and the Holland Brothers, opened a public Kinetoscope in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street—the first commercial motion picture house.

In 1956 – Ampex demonstrated the VRX-1000 videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago. It was the first successful commerical videotape recorder.

In 1996 – Jennifer Kaye Ringley hooked up a camera in her dorm room at Dickinson College and set it to upload a picture every three minutes as an experiment. The JenniCam would eventually reach 4 million hits per day at its peak.

It’s here, it’s really here! After months of hard work (and dealing with dragon negotiations) we’ve finally launched the video show! Check it out below:

Huge thanks to Scott Sigler for being on the first episode, and hopefully many of you have already started reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman. 

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

Microsoft roadmap leaked, Nest fights to defend its…. Nest, Canon’s new 4K camera, and more.

Guest: Lance Ulanoff

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Running time: 41:03

In 1960 – The United States launched Navy Transit 1-B. It demonstrated the first engine restart in space and more famously the feasiblity of using satellites as navigational aids, proving systems like GPS would work.

In 1970 – The crew of Apollo 13 heard a sharp bang and vibration followed by a warning light. Jack Swigert radioed back the famous words “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”

In 1974 – Western Union, NASA and Hughes Aircraft, teamed up to launch the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. The system relayed data, voice, video, and fax transmissions to the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Virgin islands.

Thor Muller is Co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a startup delivering “people-powered customer service for absolutely everything.”

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

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Running time: 00:47:33

Autopilot 03 – Stargate: SG1

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

Ebooks about to get cheaper, will Google sell Motorola to Huawei? Google+ gets white, and more.

Guest: Larry Dignan and Leslie Horn

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Running time: 43:12

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

Who needs a 13-inch tablet? The state of Yahoo’s peanut butter, Chrome OS catches up with Windows 2, and more.

Guest: Molly Wood

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Running time: 43:36