Darren Kitchen of Hak5 joins me to talk about Quantum Computers and free Harvard coding classes, while Len Peralta illustrates the show and introduces us to Quanto!
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Show Notes
In 1957 – Hamilton Electric held a press conference to announce the World’s First Electronic Watch. The Hamilton Electric 500 never needed winding, just batteries.
In 1977 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak incorporated Apple Computer Company. Ron Wayne famously backed out, selling his shares for $800. Ouch.
In 1999 – The US Mars Polar Lander was launched. It would spend most of the year wending its way towards Mars before it lost communication with Earth in December, presumably after crashing.
In 2009 – “Satoshi Nakamoto” created a virtual currency called Bitcoin posting an announcement and 31,000 lines of code on the Internet.
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Off to a good pace in 2014, if we won the lottery, the advantages of non-profit, HGTV’s Island Hunters, how money changes you, Disconnect.me, why Roger stalks people, why Tom rarely accepts LinkedIn requests, the secret name of Roger, airlines man, freaking airlines.
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Tim Stevens joins me to talk about the tech news of the day, Ford’s solar car, and auto expectations at CES.
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In 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the Moon, was launched by the USSR.
In 1979 – Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporated Software Arts for the purpose of developing VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program.
In 2004 – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft successfully flew past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples it brought back to Earth two years later.
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I had the distinct pleasure of being allowed to do a second round of Scott Ryan-Hart’s amazing 20 questions. Scott conducts the interview in a Google Doc over the course of weeks so you can have a nice flowing conversation about stuff. I really loved doing it the first time and this second round was just as fun.
You can read the piece at Scott’s brand new site.
In 1939 – In a garage in Palo Alto, California, William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard a little company that made audio oscillators– and later TouchPads.
In 1983 – A new Internet and Transmission Control Protocol (Yep called IP/TCP by some at the time, weird I know) went into effect on the ARPANet, replacing the Network Control Protocol. The result was a new ARPA Internet combining ARPA hosts of the time new systems.
In 1985 – The Nordic Research Network NORDUnet registered the first domain name NORDU.NET.
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We chat with Marie Brennan about her historical fiction her fictionalized history and all kinds of matters relating to anthropology, ethnography, archaeology and natural history. And dragons. Plus get a peek at how much glee she takes in chopping off hands. That and more insights coming your way in this interview with Marie Brennan.
Wikipedia article on Marie Brennan
Swan Tower (Marie Brennan’s site)
In 1923 – The chimes of Big Ben were broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC, beginning a new year’s tradition.
In 1938 -Cops in Indianapolis put Indiana University professor Rolla Harger’s drunkometer to its first practical New Year’s Eve test as a breath analyzer. Suspected drunks blew into a balloon and the air was mixed with a chemical solution that turned darker the more alcohol was present. The more portable Breathalyzer replaced the drunkometer in 1958.
In 2001 – Microsoft provided its last day of support for Windows 95 making it officially “obsolete” according to the Microsoft Lifecycle policy, after only six years.
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This video is part of our re-release of the first season of Sword and Laser videos as they exit exclusivity. This episode originally posted December 21, 2012.
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