Author Archive

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ryan Shrout and Chad Johnson

Sony and Nintendo pitch for their survival, Computex’s day of the ultrabooks, and the Napster folks revive Chatroulette

Guest: Ryan Shrout

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt.

Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Running time: 51:41

In 1954 – Computer science hero Alan Turing killed himself by eating an apple containing cyanide. Turing formulated the famous Turing test and broke code at Bletchley park during World War II.

In 1975 – Sony introduced the Betamax video recorder for sale.

In 1980 – The first U.S. solar power plant was dedicated at the Natural Bridge National Monument, Utah.

Andrew Keen, author and entrepreneur, talks to us about the negative impact today’s online revolution has on us.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Running time: 1:09:39

In 1933 – The world’s first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. Richard Hollingshead Jr. had developed the system by using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and aimed at a screen pinned to some trees.

1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released. It was invented by a Soviet programmer, Alexei Pazhitnov and popularized by Hank Rogers who bought the rights and distributed it.

In 1995 – The Los Angeles Times reported that Father Leonard Boyle was working to put the Vatican’s library on the World Wide Web through a site funded by IBM.

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

When we all have wearable computing we’ll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break

Guests: Dave Nelson and Glenn Rubenstein

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/fc.

Got a prediction of your own? Guest you’d like to see? Question for the show? Email us at [email protected].

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Running time: 47:28

Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Microsoft doubling down on video and music for Xbox, Wii U at E3, Smart Glass, Simple.TV kickstarter, and more

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/fr.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Running time: 1:12:51

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Chad Johnson

The crazy world of Computex Windows 8 tablets, Xbox brings back WebTV, Facebook for kids coming soon, and more.

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt.

Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Running time: 51:31

Autopilot 11 – Roswell

Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. and Roswell.

The series is based on the Roswell High young adult book series, written by Melinda Metz and edited by Laura J. Burns, who became staff writers for the television series.

In 1833 – Ada Gordon, daughter of Lord Byron (and future Countess Lovelace) met Charles Babbage for the first time. He designed an early computer, and she published a description of his work and wrote the first computer program.

In 1977 – The Apple II went on sale. It had a bus speed of 1 MHz and 64 KB of memory.

In 2002 – Mozilla.org announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, an open-source browser built on the Gecko engine that also powered Netscape.

In 1903 – In one of the earliest examples of white hat hacking, Nevil Maskelyne interrupted a demonstration of the Marconi radio communications system at the Royal Institution, London. Before Marconi’s message from Poldhu, Cornwall could arrive, Maskelyne hijacked the signal sending the word “rast” repeatedly and then the phrases, “There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily.”

In 1977 – JVC’s open standard for the VHS videocassette was introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.

In 2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 launched the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting a new benchmark for non-governmental space flight. The rocket put a dummy payload into orbit as a test.