UK and Canada Jointly Summon Zuckerberg – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 31st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple pulls back WatchOS update, The UK and Canada team up to summon Facebook’s CEO, Starship robots to deliver packages in the UK.

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CurrentGeek 192: The Office UK and US

Current Geek/ Shows / October 30th, 2018
Welcome to Current Geek: Autopilot Edition. A chance for us to go back and watch the pilot episode of an old classic/geeky TV show and geek out about the show! I’m Scott Johnson, he’s Tom Merritt, and this week, we’re talking about The Office, both the US and UK versions.

Today in Tech History – – October 30, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 30th, 2018

1938 – Orson Welles pwned the US radio audience with his famous broadcast of War of the Worlds. It was correctly introduced as theater but those not paying attention were fooled into thinking the play was the real thing.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation

1987 – NEC started selling the first 16-bit home entertainment system, called the TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem or in Japan, the shorter catchier PC Engine. It was originally more popular in Japan than the FamiCom, which we North Americans call the NES.

http://www.giantbomb.com/turbografx-16/60-55/

2012 – Disney and George Lucas announced that Disney would acquire 100 percent of LucasFilm, including ILM, LucasArts and Skywalker Sound. The company also announced it intended to release Star Wars: Episode 7 in 2015.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/30/disney-star-wars-lucasfilm/1669739/

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DTNS 3399 – I USB-C What You Did There Apple

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 30th, 2018

Apple has announced a new iPad that’s faster, lighter, and more capable than previous models. Plus they unveiled the long-awaited update to the Mac Mini and MacBook Air.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan.

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Apple Announces new iPad Pro, Mac mini, Macbook Air – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 30th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber announces monthly Ride Pass subscription, Nintendo’s Switch has outsold the GameCube, Sony reports strong profit outlook.

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Today in Tech History – – October 29, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 29th, 2018

1675 – Gottfreid Leibniz wrote the integral sign in an unpublished manuscript. It’s a sign that would later haunt the nightmares of students and be widely misapplied on blackboards in movies. So happy Integral Day!

http://books.google.com/books?id=bOIGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=leibniz+writes+integral&source=bl&ots=U_vboOt1rM&sig=ojXqmr8IEIWcrbOdC2UlM94fW5g&hl=en&ei=uyWbTr2dCdHbiALn_f3WBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=leibniz%20writes%20integral&f=false

1969 – The first ever computer to computer link was established on the ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline sent the characters l and o to Stanford. The connection crashed before he could finish sending ‘login’. The Internet has been crashy right from the start.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/birthplace-of-the-internet-celebrates-111333

1988 – Sega launched the Mega Drive console in Japan. It would be released elsewhere in the world later as the ‘Genesis.’

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-true-16-bit-experience-segas-genesis-turns-25

1998 – The Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-95.html

2013 – Motorola announced its modular phone project called Project ARA. It would end up becoming Google’s project after Google sold Motorola.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/motorola-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

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DTNS 3398 – Big Blue Buys a Red Hat

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 29th, 2018

Is Google planning to offer Play store apps on subscription basis? Who would it target and is the subscription model for software gaining steam?

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

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IBM to buy Red Hat – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 29th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500IBM boosts cloud business by agreeing to acquire Red Hat, OnePlus 6T coming to T-Mobile int eh US, and Wal-Mart gets into the automated retail store game.

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Today in Tech History – – October 28, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 28th, 2018

1793 – Eli Whitney applied to patent his improved cotton gin, capable of cleaning 50 pounds of lint per day, and powering patent metaphors and arguments for centuries to come.

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=1028

1955 – A pair of proud Seattle parents welcomed their new son into the world, having no idea he would become one of the most loved and hated men of all time. Happy birthday William Henry Gates the third. You know him as Bill.

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520

1998 – President Bill Clinton signed into law the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, making it illegal for you to use computers the way they were designed to be used, if big companies didn’t want you to.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/dmca-ten-years-unintended-consequences

2014 – The W3C published its recommendation of HTML5, the final version of the standard. It included the video and canvas tags among other improvements.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

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