Cable monopolies, French cinema crackdown, and the Netflix that says “ni!” All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Scott Johnson ( twitter.com/scottjohnson )
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With the popularity of IOC (Initial Coin Offerings) and other cryptocurrency as an investment strategy how do existing taxation laws apply and how should they change in the future? Plus Ford and Alibaba are partnering on a car vending machine in China, and Uber is selling its SE Asia ride-hailing business to competitor Grab.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Laura Shin.
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FTC investigates Facebook, Uber sells southeast asian business to Grab, and a car vending machine from Ford and Tencent.
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1973 – Larry Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan. He would go on to help invent and co-found Google.
http://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347/
1976 – Queen Elizabeth II sent the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern as a part of a demonstration of networking technology.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=net/
1999 – The “Melissa” worm showed up in a file on the alt.sex usenet group and became the first successful mass-mailing worm. The worm’s creator, David L. Smith, apparently named the worm after a lap dancer in Florida.
http://www.ecs.csus.edu/csc/iac/csc250/lecture_notes/wk11/wk11_12.html
Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.
1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8285977/mechanical-television/
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/history/index.html
1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.
2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.
http://time.com/37842/facebook-oculus-rift//
Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.
1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8285977/mechanical-television/
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/history/index.html
1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.
2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.
http://time.com/37842/facebook-oculus-rift/
Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.
Affinity Photo vs Photoshop CC.
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We talk with Mike Johnson, CISO at Lyft and Davis Spark from Spark media Solutions about the frustrating relationship between CISOs and security vendors.
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1802 – Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane of Camborne Parish in the County of Cornwall, enrolled a patent for a steam engine that could power a full-sized road locomotive. He had previously demonstrated it by driving up a hill in a car he called the “Puffing Devil”.
1896 – A. S. Popov made the first radio transmission in human history. Popov is said to have transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building to another on the campus of St. Petersburg University, though the assertion was not published until years later because of the need for military secrecy.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Aleksandr_Popov
2001 – Apple released its new operating system Mac OS X, code named Cheetah, with a retail price of $130.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend.html
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Should you trust Jigsaw’s Outline VPN? It sure is easy. Plus making water from desert air and why South Korea is shutting off its employees computers.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Len Peralta and Shannon Morse.
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