DTNS 3374 – You Become Safer With Yubico’s Yubikey

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 24th, 2018

Microsoft Ignite announcements, SiriusXM plans to buy Pandora, and first class VR.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, and Anthony Lemos.

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SiriusXm Buys Pandora – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 24th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft announces new multiuser VMs and a new Surface Hub at ignite, Apple now owns Shazam finally and SiriusXM hopes to own Pandora soon.

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Today in Tech History – – September 23, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 23rd, 2018

1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/

1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990923.html

1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.

http://archive.fortune.com/2009/01/27/news/newsmakers/hastings_netflix.fortune/index.htm

2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/History:Timelines

2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409863,00.asp

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Today in Tech History – – September 22, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 22nd, 2018

1791 – Michael Faraday was born in south London. He grew up to discover electromagnetic induction and coined the terms ‘electrode’, ‘cathode’ and ‘ion.’ He also lent his name to the Faraday cage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/faraday_michael.shtml

1986 – In NEC Corp. Vs. Intel Corp., the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that microprograms are copyrightable literary works. And so all the trouble began.

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v03/03HarvJLTech209.pdf

2011 – Facebook announced its new Timeline feature which would collect all your posts and materials in chronological order, replacing the old profile.

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150289612087131

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DTNS 3373 – Tesla Shocks With High Ratings

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 21st, 2018

Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. We discuss the reviews of Tesla’s Model 3, what’s going on in Elon’s brain case and why Tesla is under investigation by the US Justice Department.

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

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Today in Tech History – – September 21, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 21st, 2018

1866 – Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, England. He would grow up to write under the name H. G. Wells and help form the genre of science fiction.

http://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-Wells

1999 – Google came out of beta. The young company announced its new Google Scout feature and the launch of its new website, removing the beta designation from the Google search engine.

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/09/googles-new-googlescout-feature-expands.html

2000 – Kevin Mitnick was released from a Lompoc, California prison after almost five years of incarceration.

http://news.cnet.com/Mitnick-released-from-prison/2100-1023_3-235933.html

2015 – Christopher Poole aka ‘moot’ sold 4Chan to its inspiration 2Channel. Hiroyuki Nishimura became 4Chan’s president.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/09/21/4chan-has-been-sold-to-2channel-after-12-years-of-independence/

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Twitch App Yanked From China’s iOS App Store – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 21st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon’s hardware extravaganza, Skype calling gets Alexa integration, Instagram tests native repost feature.

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Today in Tech History – – September 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 20th, 2018

1848 – At noon in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, members of the former Association of American Geologists and Naturalists met to create the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-celebrates-its-168th-anniversary

1954 – John Backus and his team at IBM ran the first FORTRAN program. FORTRAN stands for FORmula TRANslation and was the first high-level language and compiler developed.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4396778/1st-FORTRAN-program-runs–September-20–1954

1983 – A patent for the RSA Algorithm for public-key cryptography was awarded. RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who first publicly described it in 1977.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=daEsAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

2012 – Makerbot Industries released the Replicator 2 3D printer, meant for non-expert users, and providing 100 micron resolution printing. They also announced the opening of a store in Manhattan.

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/19/a-whole-new-makerbot-introducing-replicator-2-desktop-3d-printer/

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DTNS 3372 – Is There an Echo in Here?

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 20th, 2018

Amazon introduces scores of new Alexa products. New Echo’s, new features for existing echos, and an car based echo. We breakdown the announcement, pick through the product lineup and figure out what exactly you should be excited about.

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

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Amazon’s All About that Bass – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 20th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500John Hancock will only give insurance to people with wearables, Amazon announces new stuff and Apple Music comes to Android Auto.

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