Today in Tech History – March 14, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 14th, 2018

1839 – Sir John Herschel presented his ‘Note on the Art of Photography, or the application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the purposes of Pictorial Representation’ to the Royal Society, likely the first use of the word ‘photography’.

http://www.midley.co.uk/articles/14march1839.htm

1879 – Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in Württemberg, Germany. He would grow up to work in the Swiss patent office. And reinvent physics.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html

1994 – Linus Torvalds posted to comp.os.linux.announce that Linux kernel release 1.0. had arrived.

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/382v-s08/papers/moon.pdf

2006 – Amazon announced its S3 storage service, designed to provide Web developers with cheap fast storage for their online services. Amazon charged $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month and $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=830816

2013 – Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy S IV phone would come out in April. Their broadway-influenced presentation received much criticism.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/samsung-galaxy-s4-announced-control-phone-waves-tilts/story?id=18732190#.UUtSI1tAQsg

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DTNS 3238 – Cora in the Sky with VTOL

Daily Tech News Show / March 13th, 2018

IKEA is making use of its TaskRabbit purchase by launching a furniture assembly service. Will this be a trend as retailers seek to expand their service offerings to compete? Plus CTS-Labs an Israeli security firm has found 13 vulnerabilities in AMD’s Ryzen chips and the ACLU has filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) against the TSA seeking more information on its screening of electronic devices for domestic travelers.

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 13, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 13th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500President Trump blocks Broadcom’s proposed Qualcomm acquisition, security researchers reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, two new Fitbit watches available for preorder.

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Today in Tech History – March 13, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 13th, 2018

1781 – English astronomer William Herschel observed what he initially thought was a comet but turned out to be the planet Uranus. It was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope.

http://www.universetoday.com/18886/discovery-of-uranus/

1882 – At the Royal Institution, Eadweard J. Muybridge demonstrated his zoopraxiscope, an optical apparatus that exhibited photographs of moving animals. It is sometimes considered the first movie projector.

http://www.archive.org/details/attitudesofanima00muyb

1969 – Apollo 9 returned safely to Earth after orbital testing of the first crewed Lunar Module.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo9.html

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DTNS 3237 – I Got 99 Qualms but Intel Ain’t One

Daily Tech News Show / March 12th, 2018

We try to untangle the triangle of Broadcom, Intel and Qualcomm. Plus a city that wants to issue bonds in cryptoicurrency and a company that wants to 3D print cheap concrete houses.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 12, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 12th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Bose announces AR glasses, Apple acquires digital newsstand app Texture, Elon Musk says pedestrians will have priority underground.

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Today in Tech History – March 12, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 12th, 2018

1790 – John Frederic Daniell was born. He would grow up to invent the Daniell cell, a battery that supplied an even current during continuous operation, thus making battery power practical.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151016/John-Frederic-Daniell

1889 – Almon B. Strowger of Kansas City filed his patent for the first automatic telephone exchange.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq2zRb4FMgYC&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&dq=march+12+1889+strowger&source=bl&ots=TCfyPya_By&sig=CCNHRMxK71BWOcNhQpP7dncGshY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj90-_355HZAhWiqlQKHeCBDyUQ6AEIPTAI#v=onepage&q=march%2012%201889%20strowger&f=false

1923 – Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated the Phonofilm for the press. It was the first motion picture with a sound-on-film track.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yV4nAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA115&lpg=RA3-PA115&dq=march+12+1923+lee+de+forest&source=bl&ots=A_yIgcZUDF&sig=RYXpo6cFuQFcTDpOodOCiWrTRsU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0MQMU6iJKdjmoAS6qoL4AQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=march%2012%201923%20lee%20de%20forest&f=false

1989 – Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing an “information management” system that became the foundation of the World Wide Web. He called it the Mesh at the time.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/

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DTNS LABS – BOT TAKES with Veronica Belmont

Daily Tech News Show / March 11th, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoThe first of Veronica’s weekly-ish roundup of bot news.

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Today in Tech History – March 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 11th, 2018

105 – Ts’ai Lun demonstrated his process for making paper to the Han emperor in China. He probably didn’t invent it, but he certainly turned it into an industry for the first time. And the industry still survives 20 centuries later even in the face of the computers that plot its doom.

http://www.historychannel.com.au/classroom/day-in-history/481/paper-invented

1985 – The Southern New England Telephone Company turned on ConnNet, the nation’s first local, public packet-switching network. Customers could access CompuServ, NewsNet and other services at a blistering 4,800 to 56,000 bits per second. The service’s X.25 protocol went obsolete in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet Protocol.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oVnVdSTcPbAC&pg=PT146&lpg=PT146&dq=connnet+1985+southern+new+england+telephone+x.25&source=bl&ots=72T_A7qK_4&sig=f_SUUr-etmXoUQ1RZZ6NXniSj1M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W4EyUd7PIOTUigKC8oHoDA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg

2011 – Apple began selling the iPad 2, a thinner version of the first iPad, that also included a camera.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/10iPad-2-Arrives-Tomorrow.html

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