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Today in Tech History – October 4, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 4th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1957 -The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, becoming the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, and motivating the US to get into gear and heat up the space race.

In 1985 – Richard Stallman started a non-profit corporation called the Free Software Foundation, dedicated to promoting the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software. The FSF among other things, enforces the copyleft requirements of the GNU General Public License often referred to as the GPL.

In 2004 – SpaceShipOne returned from its third journey, a reusable spacecraft that could carry passengers beyond the earth’s atmosphere. It won the $10 million Ansari X prize for private spaceflight.

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Today in Tech History – October 3, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 3rd, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1942 – Germany conducted the first successful test of the V-2/A4 rocket, launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde. It traveled 118 miles.

In 1950 – John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley received US patents for circuits that would eventually be called the transistor.

In 1972 – The first USA/Japan Computer Conference was held in Tokyo.

In 1985 – STS-51J lifted off Sending the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its maiden flight. It was the fourth shuttle created and eventually became the last shuttle to fly in July 2011.

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Today in Tech History – October 2, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 2nd, 2015

Today in Tech History logoIn 1925 – John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system. It delivered a grayscale 30-line vertically scanned image, at five frames per second. After a ventriloquist’s dummy appeared on screen, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton became the first person televised in full tonal range.

In 1955 – ENIAC was shut down for the last time. After 11 years running at 5,000 operations a second and taking up 1,000 square feet of floor space, it had earned its retirement.

In 1996 – US President Bill Clinton signed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act requiring the US government to make electronic documents available online.

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Today in Tech History – October 1, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 1st, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1958 – The National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics was officially absorbed by the brand new National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Another expanded government bureaucracy that was only good for putting people on the moon.

In 1971 – The first clinical human CT scan was performed on a middle aged lady with a suspected frontal lobe tumour, at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in South London.

In 1982 – Sony started selling the first CD players to the public, the CDP-101 for 168,000 yen (that’s about $730 US). At the time you could get Billy Joel’s album 52nd street on CD– and soon many more.

In 2003 – 4Chan launched its main page, intended as a sister-site to the Japanese 2Chan for discussions of manga and anime. They provided the fertile ground for the growth of lolcats, Rickrolling, Anonymous, Pedobear and more.

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Spooky Sunday Science Supplement for October 31, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 31st, 2021

DTH-6-150x150Are mysterious boats devoid of crews piloting the canals of Amsterdam by supernatural means? Dr. Nicole Ackermans unmasks the science behind recent advances in autonomous watercraft.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 24, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 24th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150This week, we had several global automakers announcing new battery plants in North America, aiming for a major expansion of capacity within the next five years. Dr. Nicole Ackermans switches on some science facts about EV batteries and the environmental impact.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 17, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 17th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model which they call the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”. Dr. Nicole Ackermans breaks down the science of language models to help us understand the implications of this announcement.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 10, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 10th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150This week, Dr. Nicole Ackermans looks at changes Google is making to Maps, Search, and other apps to inform users of the climate impact.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 3, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 3rd, 2021

DTH-6-150x150This week, Dr. Nicole Ackermans plunges into the murky depths to look at the science of undersea internet cables.

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Apple Announces October 13 iPhone Event – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 6th, 2020

DTH-6-150x150Google renames G Suite to Google Workspace, Sony is bullish on PS5 sales, Facebook adds Netflix support to Portal line.

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