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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

PlayBook gets it’s update a year late, Comcast squares off against Netflix, is MS Office coming to the iPad?, and more.

Guest: Mark Milian

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Running time: 43:07

In 1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany. Hertz made key discoveries in optics but also transmitted and received electromagnetic waves and gave his name to the common unit of frequency, Hz.

In 1995 – Chicago stock broker Steve Fossett completed the first hot air balloon flight over Pacific Ocean. At 9600 km it was also the longest baloon flight.

1995 – President Clinton signed an Executive Order directing the declassification of intelligence imagery acquired by the CORONA, ARGON and LANYARD U.S. photo-reconnaissance satellites. More than 860,000 images of the Earth’s surface, collected between 1960 and 1972 were made public.

In 1937- Waldo Waterman flew the first test flight of the Arrowbile, and found the aircraft easy to fly and virtually spin and stall proof. It is considered the first successful flying car to actually fly.

In 1947 – Edwin H. Land demonstrated his one-step instant camera and film at a meeting of the Optical Society of America. The first Polaroid camera was on sale within two years.

In 1986 – The Legend of Zelda, the first in the ongoing series, was released in Japan for Nintendo’s Famicom console.

In 1962 The United States became the second nation to put a man into orbit. John Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft to a successful conclusion of the mission.

In 1986 – A Soviet Proton launcher boosted the base block of the Mir space station into orbit.

In 2004 – Apple’s first iPod Mini arrived in Apple retail stores and online. It was the first variation on the original iPod.

In 1856 – Professor Hamilton L. Smith of Gambier, Ohio received the first U.S. patent for the tintype photographic picture process. It described a method for “the obtaining of positive impressions upon a japanned surface previously prepared upon an iron or other metallic or mineral sheet or plate by means of collodion and a solution of a salt of silver.”

In 1878 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph. His first recording was of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” spoken into a large horn which transmitted vibrations to a needle that cut the recording on a hand-rotated cylinder. (US patent No. 200521)

2002: Odyssey, the first of six current operational Mars vehicles began its mission to map the planet.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Windows new logo, Google web tracking explained, Android’s unlock patent, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time: 51:02

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Mountain Lion OS X comes to Mac devs, is Android 5 coming? Facebook verifies famous people, and more.

Guest: Martin Giles

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Running time: 42:46

1838: In the small town of Chirlitz of the Austrian Empire Ernst Mach was born. His work in aerodynamics and supersonic speeds, led to the unit of measurement that bears his name. He would die one day after his birthday in 1916.

In 1908 Dr Lee de Forest received a patent for “Space Telegraphy” which described a three-element vacuum tube later called the triode which could amplify feeble electric currents, and proved especially useful for radio reception.

In 1977 – The Enterprise space shuttle orbiter prototype made the first of five “captive-inactive” flight tests, testing structural integrity and performance handline, while attached to the top of a 747 jumbo jet.

In 1965 – The Ranger 8 probe launched on its mission to photograph the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. The photos paved the way to select the area as the site of the first manned Moon landing.

In 1996 – World chess champion Gary Kasparov defeated Deep Blue in game 6 winning the match 4-2. He would lose the next match a few years later.

In 2000 – Microsoft released Windows 2000, the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and the final Windows release to display the “Windows NT” designation.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Apple’s done with the whole contact list crap, Lightsquared is toast, why Georgia hates the Internet, and more.

Guest: Christopher Mitchell

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Running time: 42:21