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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Is SOPA back? DirecTV and Viacomm have a cat fight, but there’s also a cat film festival, and more. Guest: Loyd Case 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...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell A new $99 game console, Verizon wants to edit the Internet, RIM shakes things up, and more. Guest: Peter Wells 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...
Continue Reading »1976 – K&E produced its last slide rule, which it presented to the Smithsonian Institution. While slide rules continue to be made, especially for marine and aviation uses, K&E had been the dominant manufacturer, and this signaled the end of an era, and the rise of the electronic calculator. In 1979 – The US...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Apple stops being green, Kindle Fire specs leaked, Microsoft announces new Windows dates, and more. Guest: Erica Ogg 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...
Continue Reading »We kick off Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, debate Terry Goodkind’s response to book pirates, and discuss what makes for good and kind book discussion. See what I did there? Goodkind. Good… Kind… just listen. WHAT ARE WE DRINKING? Tom: Water Veronica: Absinthe QUICK BURNS We’re coming to Comic-Con Terry Goodkind publicly...
Continue Reading »In 1856 – Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother an inventor of household appliances. In 1962 – The world’s first communication satellite, Telstar, was launched into orbit from cape Canaveral on a Delta rocket....
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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt Time Warner Cable’s usage based billing, 4D coming soon, moral dilemma around HBO Go subscription, 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....
Continue Reading »In 1971 – Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He would grow up to develop the Netscape browser, which powered the explosion of the Web in the late 1990s. In 1979 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 kilometers of the planet. In 1982 – Disney released...
Continue Reading »In 1908 – Charles Urban demonstrated Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process, at a scientific meeting in Paris attended by Auguste and Louis Lumière. In 1946 – The University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering began summer school course on computing that inspired the EDSAC, BINAC, and, many other similar computers. In...
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Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Why Amazon will rock at phones, Apple proves DRM still sucks, British Airways gets creepy, and more. Guest: Nicole Lee and Darren Kitchen 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...
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