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Google plans to reopen offices now in September with a test of a “flexible workweek,” a draft of the EU’s Digital Markets Act could lead to big fines for tech companies, and EA announces its largest acquisition.
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The US Commerce Department announces that US companies will be banned from distributing WeChat and TikTok on September 20th, CFIUS is looking into data security of game publishers with investments from Tencent, and Twitter adds new security policies for accounts related to the US election.
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A weird flashback on Preacher, a fun flashback on The Righteous Gemstones, and Ian McKellen on Extras!
Next week: Preacher (409), The Righteous Gemstones (106), Extras (206)
Mark your calendars! The Winter Movie Draft is happening live September 23rd. 30 movies, 6 players, 1 winner. Catch it live at Night Attack on Twitch or listen on the Cordkillers feed the next day.
00:39 – Summer Movie Draft update + Winter Movie Draft is coming!
01:41 – Preacher (408)
07:59 – The Righteous Gemstones (105)
13:56 – Extras (205)
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The Summer Movie Draft is wrapping up and we’re bracing for a Winter Movie Draft September 23rd! Plus, we catch up with The Righteous Gemstones and Preacher to cheers and jeers and cheers again. And then Chris Martin shows up on Extras!
Next week: The Righteous Gemstones (105), Preacher (408), and Extras (205)
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00:46 – Summer Movie Draft update + Winter Movie Draft is coming!
04:53 – The Righteous Gemstones (102-104)
14:51 – Preacher (406-407)
19:29 – Extras (204)
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1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_hydro_1.html
1954 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Groton, CT.
http://www.ussnautilus.org/nautilus/index.shtml
1980 – Xerox published the Version 1.0 specifications for Ethernet in conjunction with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
2014 – Microsoft announced its next operating system would be called Windows 10, not Windows 9 and would arrive sometime in 2015.
http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/
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1920 – The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh ran an advertisement in the Pittsburgh Sun, describing wireless Victrola music being picked up by radio. Amateur Wireless Sets were on sale for $10.
1954 – CERN officially came into being. In addition to countless advancements in science, it would go on to foster the invention of the World Wide Web.
http://international-relations.web.cern.ch/International-Relations/ms/
1994 – Programmers first demonstrated the HotJava prototype browser to executives at Sun Microsystems Inc. It was an attempt to port the Java language to the Web. It worked.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/29/
1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in Europe.
1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in North America spreading its 3D world controlled by an analog stick to a new continent.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/09/24/nintendo-64-launching-a-legacy
2015 – Google announced the Nexus 5X and 6P phones, new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, and an Android tablet called the Pixel C.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/09/29/everything-google-announced-today-at-its-nexus-2015-event/
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1956 – The first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1 was inaugurated, replacing slow telegraph and unreliable radio systems.
2001 – Apple announced the release of Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first major upgrade to OS X.
2012 – Blizzard launched its 4th World of Warcraft expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/mists-of-pandaria-releases-september-25/
2013 – Amazon announced the Kindle HDX tablets with a service called “Mayday” that promised to let users speak with a real person by video over the Internet within 15 seconds of tapping a button.
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1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/
1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990923.html
1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
http://archive.fortune.com/2009/01/27/news/newsmakers/hastings_netflix.fortune/index.htm
2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/History:Timelines
2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409863,00.asp
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1791 – Michael Faraday was born in south London. He grew up to discover electromagnetic induction and coined the terms ‘electrode’, ‘cathode’ and ‘ion.’ He also lent his name to the Faraday cage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/faraday_michael.shtml
1986 – In NEC Corp. Vs. Intel Corp., the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that microprograms are copyrightable literary works. And so all the trouble began.
http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v03/03HarvJLTech209.pdf
2011 – Facebook announced its new Timeline feature which would collect all your posts and materials in chronological order, replacing the old profile.
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150289612087131
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