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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Yahoo makes a browser, Facebook launches Instagram competitor, Jay Leno steals a video from YouTube, and more. Guest: Patrick Norton 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 »In 1969 – Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the manned moon landing. In 1981 – Satya Pal Asija received the first U.S. patent for a computer software program. It was called Swift-answer. The patent took seven years to issue, and the validity of...
Continue Reading »Author and screenwriter Ernest Cline joins us today to talk about Ready Player One, and we wrap up our May pick, Hyperion! Learn more about our guest and book pick! Ernest Cline: http://www.ernestcline.com/ Ernie on Twitter: twitter.com/erniecline Ready Player One: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one Hyperion: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion Show Notes: SCOTT LYNCH – THE BASTARDS AND THE KNIVES TO...
Continue Reading »Roger and Tom share their thoughts on alternative medicine after Roger visits a chiropractor. Does the EU make internal borders unnecessary? What makes a nation or even an ethnic region come into being? And why the future will be like Burning Man. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest287ABurningFuture/eastmeetswest287.mp3
Continue Reading »In 1945 – Arthur C. Clarke began privately circulating copies of his paper ““The Space-Station: Its Radio Applications” which suggested geostationary space stations could be used for worldwide television broadcasts. In 1949 – Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia. He would later go by the name Joybubbles and develop a talent...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Windows boots too quickly now, Google gets off cheap in Oracle case, Siri is now an outlaw, and more. Guest: Mark Turpin 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...
Continue Reading »In 1844 – Samuel Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought” from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to the Mount Clair train depot in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first public demonstration of the telegraph. In 1935 – General Electric Co. sold the first spectrophotometer. It could detect...
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Alexander Ljung co-foundeder of SoundCloud is a entrepreneur with much love for music and wavelengths, talks to us about the “Flicker” of sound. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Amazon lets you test drive apps, AmEx wants to reward you with Farmville credits, Verizon wants to be your video portal, and more. Guest: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com....
Continue Reading »Autopilot 09 – seaQuest DSV seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O’Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in “the near future”, seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction. It stars Roy Scheider...
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