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Tom and Veronica sat down with 6 of the 7 authors of the Mongoliad, including Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, E.D deBirmingham, Cooper Moo, Neal Stephenson, and Mark Teppo. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pkRAEPGOs
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Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Edward Saverin’s renouncing his citizenship and US senators say pay up, Comcast ditching Data caps- temporarily, Yahoo’s suing, and more. Guest: Ina Fried 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,...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Apple gets HTC phones seized, Google’s answer to Bing’s social search, Pirate Bay under attack, and more. Guest: Martin Giles 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 1923 – The first patent application for the rotary-dial telephone was submitted in France by Antoine Barnay. In 1969 – Apollo 10 launched, completing all the stages of a moon landing mission without landing on the Moon. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Staford descended in the Lunar Module to within 15 KM of...
Continue Reading »We’ve used our remedial magic to convince The Magicians author to stick around for a few more questions!
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Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google. That means that if you type your name into Google and get porn back, it’s his fault. Also learn 3 or 5 things you never knew about the “face” of Google. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Download or subscribe to this show...
Continue Reading »In 1902 – A strange device was discovered near Antikythera off the coast of Greece. The device is later found to be a sophisticated calculating mechanism dating from 150 BC. In 1943 – The U.S. Army and the University of Pennsylvania signed a contract to develope ENIAC. It was planned to use vacuum tubes...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Chad Johnson Lenovo ditches the ThinkPad keyboard, AMD launches Trinity, Nvidia might eliminate the need for game consoles, and more. Guest: Christopher Null 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,...
Continue Reading »Autopilot 08 – Buck Rogers Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired. The film and...
Continue Reading »In 1888 – Emile Berliner demonstrated his flat disc recording and reproduction in a lecture he gave to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which was printed in the institute’s Journal (vol. 125, no. 60). In 1946 – At the meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, now IEEE) in San Francisco, Jack Mullin...
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