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DTNS 3257 – Mr. Zuck Goes to Washington
Zuckerberg meets lawmakers on Capital Hill, Facebook suspends two data analytic companies, and Facebook partners with nonprofit foundations to measure the affects of Social Media on elections. Plus PayPal is rolling out FDIC insured debit cards and Leap Motion announces Project North Star.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:10) Apple announces new red iPhone 8 and 8 Plus | the verge
- (01:30) Steve Wozniak drops Facebook: “The profits are all based on the user’s info” | ars technica
- (01:45)HP goes up against the iPad Pro with its $599 Chromebook x2 | the verge
- More Top Stories
- (02:10) Uber agrees to buy electric cycle-sharing startup JUMP Bikes | reuters
- (04:05) PayPal Has Been Quietly Getting Into the Traditional Banking Business | fortune
- (06:15) Leap Motion designed a $100 augmented reality headset with super-powerful hand tracking | the verge
- (09:35) Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law | tech crunch
- (11:10) Snapchat brings back chronological Stories feed for some | tech crunch
- Discussion Story (14:20)
- Facebook Suspends 2 More Data Firms as Cambridge Analytica Fallout Spreads | fortune
- Facebook will give researchers new data to study election interference | the verge
- CEO Zuckerberg says Facebook could have done more to prevent misuse | reuters
- Zuckerberg Statement to Congress | scribd
- Meet the lawmakers who could give Zuckerberg hell | axios
- Zuckerberg to make Capitol Hill rounds before testimony | axios
- Facebook may stop the data leaks, but it’s too late: Cambridge Analytica’s models live on | mit technology review
- Thing of the Day
- Message of the Day
- (23:40) Aaron – Facebook message deletion
- (25:50) Joel – Warehouse job availability
- Today’s Contributor
Daily Tech Headlines – April 9, 2018
Uber buys a bike-sharing company, Apple issues new RED phones and Facebook apologizes to the US Congress.
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Today in Tech History – April 9, 2018
1860 – Parisian typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his Phonoautogram to record sound onto paper but had no way to play it back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html
1919 – Presper Eckert was born in Philadelphia. Eckert became famous for his work, with John Mauchly on the ENIAC project.
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/entrepreneuereckert
1959 – NASA publicly announced the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, who quickly became known as the “Mercury Seven”.
http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/intro.htm
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Today in Tech History – April 8, 2018
1953 – The major studios were inspired by the 1952 3D hit “Bwana Devil.” Columbia beat Warner Brothers’ “House of Wax” to the theatre, with a New York City premiere, making “Man in the Dark” the first 3D motion picture produced and released by a major studio.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046036/
1959 – The Department of Defense called a meeting at the University of Pennsylvania to define the objectives for a new Common Business Language. Captain Grace Hopper led the group that kicked off COBOL.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4411540/COBOL-group-meets-for-1st-time–April-8–1959
1991 – A team moved from Sun Microsystems to work in secret on Project “Green” using its “Oak” programming language. The whole thing later bacame “Java.”
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/8/
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Today in Tech History – April 7, 2018
1927 – The Bell System sent live TV images of Herbert Hoover, then the Secretary of Commerce, over telephone lines from Washington, D.C. to an auditorium in Manhattan. It was the first public demonstration in the US of long-distance television transmission.
https://www.poynter.org/news/today-media-history-1927-newspapers-introduced-television
1964 – IBM unveiled the System/360 line of mainframe computers, its most successful computer system. It was called the “360” because it was meant to address all possible sizes and types of customer with one unified software-compatible architecture.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html
1969 – The first Request For Comment, RFC 1 put together by Steve Crocker was distributed on the newly operational ARPANET. RFCs describe methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet.
http://isen.com/blog/2009/04/40th-anniversary-of-rfc-1.html http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1
2014 – OpenSSL issued a security advisory about a vulnerability that would come to be called ‘Heartbleed.’ The bug was in the TLS Heartbeat function, that when implemented could be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server. Unpatched servers could have their private keys stolen making it easy for malicious hackers to pretend to have certified secure connections.
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
2015 – HBO launched it’s HBO Now service, allowing US viewers to watch HBO online without a cable subscription. The service was initially sold through Apple and Cablevision.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/hbo-now-arrives-on-apple-tv/
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DTNS 3256 – Shelly’s Accessibility Tech Rundown
Accessibility tech has made great strides over the years. We take a look at the trends and developments that promise to make technology more accessible and easier to use for persons with disabilities.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Shelly Brisbin.
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 6, 2018
Facebook faces multiple new allegations and controversies, Samsung and LG look to have record Q1s and Spotify schedules an announcement.
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Today in Tech History – April 6, 2018
1917 – Following a declaration of war against Germany, President Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order closing all radio communication not required by the US Navy.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75407
1965 – Hughes Aircraft’s Early Bird launched into orbit. It was the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit and successfully demonstrated the concept of synchronous satellites for commercial communications.
http://history.nasa.gov/satcomhistory.html
1973 – NASA launched the Pioneer 11 spacecraft, the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the first to explore the planet Saturn and its main rings.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-019A
1992 – Microsoft released Windows 3.1. It sold for $149 and added support for sound cards, MIDI, and CD Audio, Super VGA monitors, and support for 9600 bps modems.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/06/windows_3_1_anniversary/
2010 – Xiaomi, maker of fashionable affordable Android-based smartphones, was founded in Beijing, China.
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/xiaomi
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DTNS 3255 – An Oath to Sell Moviefone
AI researchers signed a protest at a partnership between Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and arms maker Hanwha systems while Google employees signed an open letter to company CEO Sundar Pichai to stop cooperation with the DoD on work to integrate AI into combat operations. Plus Apple has told TechCrunch that an updated Mac Pro will ship in 2019 instead of the previously rumored 2018.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:10) As Spotify Goes Public, Sony Cashes In | the new york times
- (01:40) Some Amazon Key features, including keyless entry, go nationwide | cnet
- (02:20)Google Voice recruiting testers for new Wi-Fi (or mobile data) calling feature | tech crunch
- More Top Stories
- (02:55) Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | tech crunch
- Apple’s redesigned Mac Pro is coming in 2019 | the verge
- (09:05) South Korean university boycotted over ‘killer robots’ | bbc
- (12:05) All of Facebook’s privacy fixes have broken Tinder | the verge
- (15:05) The Lunar Xprize will continue, but without the $20 million reward | engadget
- (17:30) 6 River Systems raises $25 million for warehouse robots | tech crunch
- (21:10) MoviePass Parent Acquires Moviefone in Deal With Verizon’s Oath | variety
- (02:55) Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | tech crunch
- Message of the Day
- John – Platforms as a Public Service
- Today’s Contributor