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Daily Tech Headlines – October 28, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 28th, 2016

Apple’s new MacBooks, a merger of internet titans, RIP Vine.
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Daily Tech Headlines – October 27, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 27th, 2016

Twitter beats expectations, announces layoffs; Qualcomm moves into automotive, Apple delays AirPod.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 26, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 26th, 2016

Microsoft announces new laptop, desktop and Windows 10 Creators Studio. Alphabet pauses Google Fiber expansion. Vodafone pays a big UK fine.

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Today in Tech History – October 25, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 25th, 2016

1955 – Tappan introduced the first microwave oven for home use. It sold for $1,295. Raytheon developed the Radarrange after engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.

1977 – VAX/VMS was born. At a shareholder meeting, DEC, the Digital Equipment Corporation, released VMS v1.0 the first version of what we later would call OpenVMS, along with the VAX 11/780 architecture which increased the PDP-11 address space.

2001 – Microsoft Windows XP hit retail shelves for the first time.

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Today in Tech History – October 23, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 23rd, 2016

1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. Some argue he should be credited with the first flight at all. But that’s a long controversy.

1995 – A federal judge for the first time authorized a wiretap of a computer network, leading to hacking charges against a young Argentinean for breaking into sensitive US government networks.

2001 – Apple announced their new music player, the iPod. Apple used PortalPlayer’s reference platform and hired Pixo to design and implement the user interface. The iPod became the first massively successful digital music player.

2012 – Apple announced the iPad Mini at 7.9 inches.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 21, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 21st, 2016

Denial of Service hits major sites’ DNS, Microsoft earnings rise high, and evidence port in against former NSA contractor Thomas Martin.

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Today in Tech History – October 21, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 21st, 2016

1879 – Thomas Edison finished up 14 months of testing with an incandescent electric light bulb that lasted 13½ hours. It improved on 50-year-old technology to make light bulbs safe and economical by using lower electricity, a carbon filament and an improved vacuum.

1949 – An Wang filed a patent for a magnetic ferrite core memory, that he called pulse transfer controlling devices. Two years later he formed Wang computers.

1983 – The seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures ruled the meter would be defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. This actually simplified it from the previous definition of 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 6, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 6th, 2016

Nobody wants to buy Twitter, Samsung buys Viv from Siri inventors, a new Note burns up on an airplane.

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Daily Tech Headlines Part 1 – October 4, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 4th, 2016

WhatsApp gets more Snapchat Like, Signal gets subpoenaed and Microsoft disbands the Band.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 29, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 29th, 2016

Spotify might buy Soundcloud, Big tech teams up on AI, Facebook comes to work October 10th.

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