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Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

RIM says crazy stuff and delays things, Microsoft makes upgrades cheap, Twitter goes transparent, and more.

Guest: Nilay Patel

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Running time: 50:40

Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Sony climbs into the cloud, Mozilla’s making a phone OS, the Internet declares freedom, and more.

Guest: Cali Lewis

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Running time: 49:07

1886, Karl Benz drove his Patent Motor Wagen on Mannheim’s Ringstraße, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph) powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. It was the first public drive of what is considered the first purpose-built automobile.

In 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry died of lung cancer. She was a pioneering game designer most famous for creating the multiplayer game M.U.L.E. in 1983.

In 1999 – At the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, Billy Mitchell became the first ever to achieve a perfect score on Pac-Man.

Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Dish drops AMC, Valve open-sources machinima, Hulu lands HBO… in Japan, and more.

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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Running time: 1:04:50

1897 – 23-year-old Guglielmo Marconi received a patent in England for his wireless telegraphy which we now call radio. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. Ltd. was formed a few weeks later.

In 1928 W3XK, owned by the Jenkins Television Corporation, went on the air becoming the first television broadcasting station in the US.

In 2001 – Bram Cohen first revealed BitTorrent on a Yahoo group called decentralization.

Hosts: Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

RIM’s running out of options, Google+ invites everyone to everything, the world’s ending, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen and Randall Bennett

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Running time: 56:20

In 1979 – Sony introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. It weighed 14 ounces, was blue and silver, and had a second earphone jack. It was originally marketed in the US as the Sound-About and in the UK as the Stowaway.

In 1991 – Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri made the world’s first GSM call over a privately operated network to Vice Mayor Kaarina Suonio in Tampere. The Prime Minister used Nokia gear on GSM’s original 900MHz band.

In 2008 – Bill Gates retired as an employee of Microsoft, to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He remained Chairman pf the Board.

In 1945 – The first draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was published. It discussed the advantages of using just one large internal memory, in which instructions as well as data could be held.

In 1948 – Bell Labs introduced the point-contact transistor demonstrated by its inventors, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at a press conference in Murray Hill, NJ.

In 1948 – The FCC authorisation of recording devices in connection with interstate or foreign telephone service went into effect. Users of the service had to be given adequate notice including a tone warning signal at regular intervals.

Did Gandalf the Grey abandon reason for madness? Mordor gets a taste of their own dark medicine. And who’s a quitter? The madness continues in this season of FSL Tonight.

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