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Autopilot 02 – Battlestar Galactica (1978) Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Google reveals augmented reality glasses, Nokia Lumia 900 rocks the world, Alaskans get cheap iPhones, and more. 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 amend our show...
Continue Reading »In 1911 – Cuthbert Hurd was born in Estherville, Iowa. He would grow up to work at IBM where he quietly persuaded the company that a market for scientific computers existed. He sold 10 of the very first IBM 701s and managed the team that invented FORTRAN. In 1951 – Dean Kamen was born...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Facebook fights back against Yahoo, RIM’s plan for success, flying cars (or driving planes), and more. Guest: Jason Hiner 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 amend...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Hot iPad not too hot, Dell goes all 1960 on computing, Microsoft conquering all, and more. Guest: Peter Wells 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 amend...
Continue Reading »In 1954 – Daniel Kottke was born in Bronxville, New York. Who would go on to befriend Steve Jobs at Reed College, assemble the first Apple Compyters with Steve Wozniak and work on the original Macintosh team. In 1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a partnership in Albuquerque New Mexico. The venture...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson We’ll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won’t have those nasty keyloggers since we’ll all use tablets. Guests: Dwight Silverman and Tony Wang Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/fc. Got a prediction of your own? Guest you’d like to see? Question for...
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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt Is cable dominance slowing? Google TV coming to Europe, Kutcher to play Jobs, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/fr. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time:...
Continue Reading »We realise right off the top of the show that we need to start planning for our 100th episode. Soon! We also figure out why SciFi is sometimes better than reality and dish what we thought of The Hunger Games movie. Also: GAME OF THRONES!!! WHAT ARE WE DRINKING? Tom: 2011 Viñedos Errázuriz Ovalle...
Continue Reading »In 1966 – Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to enter lunar orbit. It completed its first orbit in two hours 58 minutes. 1973 – Martin Cooper, general manager of Motorola’s Communications Systems Division made the first handheld portable phone call from a New York City street to Joel S. Engel at rival Bell...
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