Google to Charge Phone Makers for Play Store – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 17th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google begins charging for licenses as it complies with EU antitrust rulings, Facebook walks back its no data collection on Portal devices statements and a drone that you can control from an Apple Watch.

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Today in Tech History – – October 16, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 16th, 2018

1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton finally hit on the idea of Quaternions, and needing a bit more space than his hand to jot it down, he carved it into the stone of Brougham Bridge in Dublin. Why do you care about quaternions? Because calculations involving three-dimensional rotations are essential for 3D computer graphics and computer vision. Video games people.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hamilton.html

1923 – Distributor M. J. Winkler, contracted to distribute the “Alice Comedies” marking the founding of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio which eventually changed its name to the Walt Disney Company, at Roy’s suggestion. So don’t expect anything after this date to ever go out of copyright.

http://d23.disney.go.com/archives/a-history-of-the-walt-disney-company/

1959 – Control Data Corp. released its model 1604 computer, the first from William Norris’s group that left Sperry Rand Corp.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/October/16/

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DTNS 3389 – ARM taking Intel to Lunch

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 16th, 2018

How will subscription and game streaming services change the face of game distribution?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Sources: Facebook Building Video Set-Top Box – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 16th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen dies at 65, Lyft expands subscription service, Uber IPO may be as high as $120B.

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Cordkillers 240 – Dangle Dongles (w/ Justin Robert Young)

Cordkillers/ Shows / October 16th, 2018

Apple giving out free shows, new Netflix shows, refreshed Chromecast hardware, and you’re all pirates! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Justin Robert Young.

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DTNS 3388 – Adobe Rushes to Edit

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 15th, 2018

Adobe takes the wrap off a slew of tablet focused creative applications plus Photoshop for the iPad. Is this a sign that the tablet as a productivity machine has finally arrived?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.

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Full Photoshop Comes to iPad – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 15th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Adobe announces new stuff, mostly for iOS, at Adobe MAX, a thorny quantum computing problem solved, and Palm makes a comeback.

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Today in Tech History – – October 14, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 14th, 2018

1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than 100 years until digital stole its thunder.

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-44.jsp

1977 – The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-35th-atari-2600-175216071.html

1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/10/1014cplusplus-released/all/1

1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the enduser of Linux.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php

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Today in Tech History – – October 13, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 13th, 2018

1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.

http://books.google.com/books?id=2PCEPLT4aZgC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=october+13+1884+greenwich&source=bl&ots=OL5dRVJ8tz&sig=ItRzcm7zjEFOe33oFSMowrADBwk&hl=en#v=onepage&q=october%2013%201884%20greenwich&f=false

1983 – Bob Barnett, president of Ameritech Mobile communications, called Alexander Graham Bell’s nephew from Chicago’s Soldier Field using a Motorola DynaTAC handset. It marked the launch of the first cellular telephone network in the US.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10064633-94.html

1985 – The first observation of a proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/milestones/interactive-timeline.html

2000 – Tristan Louis suggested sound and video tags be added to the 0.92 spec for RSS feeds. This led to enclosures which allowed media files to be delivered through RSS and paved the way for podcasting.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/syndication/conversations/topics/698

2016 – The PlayStation VR headset began shipping.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/12/13255384/playstation-vr-launch-availability-where-how-to-buy

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DTNS 3387 – YouTube Demonetizes the Duplicators

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 12th, 2018

Facebook’s investigation into September’s login token attack found hackers stole details for 29 million users. How serious is this data breach and what can users do about it?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Shannon Morse.

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