Amazon’s All About that Bass – DTH

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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Today in Tech History – – September 19, 2018

1982 – In a posting made at 11:44 AM, Professor Scott Fahlman first proposed using the characters 🙂 to indicate jokes on a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. In the same post he suggested :-(.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

1989 – About 100 hospitals that used software from Shared Medical Systems saw their computers go into a loop when the date was entered. The day was 32,768 days from January 1, 1900, which caused a system overflow.

http://books.google.com/books?id=k29i2RUzg0EC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=september+19+1989+hospital+bug&source=bl&ots=LGg9GLyZD9&sig=fCpVkfK7qoMCUGiKvhpgeFpC48A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aIUlUMSFIsLtiwL914GICg&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=september%2019%201989%20hospital%20bug&f=false

1995 – International Talk Like a Pirate Day was first celebrated by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon. They had come up with the idea on June 6th while playing racquetball, but that was D-Day. The 19th was Summers’ ex-wife’s birthday, and the only day he could reliably remember.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

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DTNS 3371 – Oh, Deere!

Google beats out Amazon in latest sales stats of smart speakers. Will Google try to ensconce its lead as top dog in the field and what will Amazon’s strategy be to get the title back?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 236 – Better Call Saul (406), Deadwood (312)

Better Call Saul finds some new conflicts and we give Dead Wood a fond farewell (for now). In two weeks, we’ll begin our next library show: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Winter Movie Draft next week!

00:52 – Summer Movie Draft conclusion

02:44 – Better Call Saul (406)

16:03 – Deadwood (312)

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Sony Releases Miniature PlayStation – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube is retiring its gaming app, Alibaba wants to make its own chips, and Sony gets in on the nostalgia play.

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DTNS 3370 – Making A Chicken Out Of A Feather

YouTube is retiring its gaming App and bringing all its features directly into YouTube. Plus Google is giving up some control of AMP and Amazon plans on releasing 8 new voice-powered assistants later this year.

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

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Twitter Reinstates Reverse Chronological Timeline – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple releases iOS 12, Netflix ties HBO in Emmy wins, the DOJ investigates Tesla.

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Cordkillers 236 – Are You Still Watching? (w/ John Hess)

Roku’s not scared, Mary Poppins is back, and more American Gods problems. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest John Hess.

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Today in Tech History – – September 17, 2018

1822 – Jean-François Champollion, permanent secretary of the French Académie des Inscriptions, presented his Lettre a M. Dacier, describing his solution to the mystery of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone. A nifty bit of decryption.

http://www.umass.edu/wsp/philology/gallery/champollion.html

1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was posted to a Finnish FTP server in Helsinki. Originator Linus Torvalds wanted to call the OS FreaX, but the FTP admin didn’t like the name and renamed it Linux.

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-history-of-Linux-1331088.html

2007 – AOL announced plans to refocus the company on advertising and relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City.

http://observer.com/2007/09/aol-to-move-corporate-headquarters-to-770-broadway/

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