Google Announces Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Alphabet to shut down Google+, security researcher backs up report that Supermicro servers were compromised, iPad Pro rumors swirl in anticipation of event this month.

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Cordkillers 239 – Not All Piracy is Convenient

Competition leading to piracy? New Amazon hardware. She-Ra lives soon! All this and more on Cordkillers!

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Today in Tech History – – October 8, 2018

1860 – Telegraph lines opened between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This allowed gold miners to tell backers farther south that they still hadn’t found any gold.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/chron5.html

1921 – KDKA radio in Pittsburgh conducted the first live broadcast of a football game from Forbes Field. The University of Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2010/04/01/kdka-firsts/

2003 – To allow IT departments to prepare for critical updates, Microsoft conducted the first regularly scheduled Windows patch release. It became lovingly known as “Patch Tuesday”.

http://www.zdnet.com/celebrating-10-years-of-patch-tuesday-7000021664/

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Facebook Announces Smart Display – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook’s Portal offers video calling, Intel announces 9th-gen processors and Microsoft promises to recover deleted files from a faulty Windows 10 update.

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MVGB 2 – Cross Platforming

DTNS Labs LogoIn this episode, we discuss:
Sony enables cross platform with other consoles, Oculus announces the Oculus Quest, and the games of October.

With Patrick Beja (@NotPatrick) and Scott Johnson (@ScottJohnson).

 

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DTNS 3383 – Pro Apple, Not Anti-Repair

An Apple memo regarding showing certain mac models must pass Apple diagnostics for certain repairs to be completed raises concerns that the company is trying to block 3rd parties from repairing Macintosh computers.

Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, and Roger Chang.

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Apple, Amazon, SuperMicro deny hardware hack – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Everyone denies Bloomberg’s story is accurate but Bloomberg follows up with allegations of software hacks on Supermicro cards. Plus, Samsung’s forecast is looking rosy.

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Today in Tech History – – October 4, 2018

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.

http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/

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.

http://www.linkedin.com/company/free-software-foundation

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.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2010/10/october-4-2004-spaceshipone-wins-10-million-x-prize/

2016 – Google announced two phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL, the first phones designed from the ground up by Google. The company also introduced a Google Home voice-activated assistant along with several other products.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37551413

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DTNS 3382 – China’s Tiny Hack Into Big Data

A report by Bloomberg alleges that server hardware sold by Supermicro had surveillance chips installed by Chinese authorities at the factory with the intent to spy. Dutch agents uncover a Russian GRU operation trying to hack the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) right as the organization was about to report its findings in the UK poisoning case.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Report: Chinese Spies Used Supermicron Servers To Spy on US Tech Companies – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500US Senate passes new civilian drone regulation, Google acquires Onward chatbot AI service, Nintendo working on a new Switch?

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