DTNS 3365 – Somewhere Beyond the Sea Roomba

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

India’s Aadhaar ID system’s databased has been compromised via a software patch. Tinder makes its “Top Picks” curated match service available worldwide. The Ocean Cleanup Project started towing System 001 to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” to begin field trials of the apparatus and evaluate its effectiveness at cleaning plastic garbage from the ocean.

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

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Arizona Probes Google Over Location Tracking – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple will stream 9/12 event on Twitter, India’s Aadhaar database compromised by software patch, Impossible Aerospace launches US-1 drone.

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Cordkillers 235 – Amazon as in Beer (w/ Nicole Lee)

Cordkillers/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

Mr. Robot to end, Dr. Who coming soon, and Spotify adds Showtime for students. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Nicole Lee.

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Today in Tech History – – September 10, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 10th, 2018

1990 – Peter Deutsch posted to comp.archives about the Internet Archive Server called “Archie” that he, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan had put together. It is often considered the Internet’s first search engine.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.archives/LWVA50W8BKk/wyRbF_lDc6cJ

1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.unix.misc/-CGG1XLkjfk

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, powered up on its quest to discover the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1098.html

2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/10Apple-Introduces-iPhone-5c-The-Most-Colorful-iPhone-Yet.html

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DTNS 3364 – Gemini: The Same Side of Two Coins

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 10th, 2018

We checkout the latest developments in the world of cryptocurrency as New York approves the Winklesvoss backed Gemini Trust and Paxo Trust stablecoins and we raise the question about the long term stability of cryptocurrency.

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

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Jack Ma Leaving Alibaba- DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 10th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Alibaba’s legendary Jack Ma to step down, Apple may switch iPad to USB-C and cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar.

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Today in Tech History – – September 9, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 9th, 2018

1940 – In McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote operation of a computer. He connected to his Complex Number Generator at Bell labs by telephone using 28-wire teletype cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stibitz_plaque_0708_edited-1.jpg

1947 – While troubleshooting the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, operators found a moth trapped between the points of relay #70 in Panel F. They affixed the bug to the log and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.” While this was not the first use of the term ’bug’ for a computer problem, ‘debugging’ became popular for fixing bugs after this case.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/

1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in North America.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2015/09/09/playstation-turns-20-in-the-u-s-heres-a-look-back-at-the-consoles-evolution/

1999 – The Sega Dreamcast debuted in North America. However many were distracted by the supposed 9/9/99 bug that ended up being just as much of a non-problem as the Y2K bug.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/09/the-swirl-that-shook-gaming-the-sega-dreamcast-turns-10/

2014 – Apple announced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6+ along with Apple Pay, a system that used NFC for payments. The company also unveiled the Apple Watch.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/09/apple-unveils-apple-watch/

2015 – Apple announced a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a new Apple TV with a hard drive and remote with a touchpad and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with force touch capability.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/everything-apple-announced-at-its-september-2015-event/

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Today in Tech History – – September 8, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 8th, 2018

1930 – The first roll of waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape was sold. Its brand name “Scotch” has become synonymous with cellophane tape.

http://news.3m.com/press-release/company/3m-celebrates-75-years-scotch-transparent-tape

1966 – The TV show Star Trek made its network television debut with the episode “The Man Trap”. Star Trek would have a profound influence on future technology thought and design.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/8_September

2004 – NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-landed when its parachute failed to open.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/media/feature-genesis-returns.html

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Today in Tech History – – September 7, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 7th, 2018

1927 – The first fully electronic television system was demonstrated by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Francisco.

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm

1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, ESPN, made its debut. It would become one of the main drivers of cable TV adoption and one of the main factors in the switch to Internet television.

http://espnfounder.com/how_it_started.htm

1981 – The first large parallel processing computer, ILLIAC IV, ended its nearly decade-long life at the University of Illinois.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/September/7/

2017 – Credit reporting firm Equifax announced that it discovered on July 29th that attackers accessed data for 143 million US customers. The data included addresses, credit card numbers, social security numbers, birth dates and some drivers license numbers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/07/credit-reporting-firm-equifax-says-cybersecurity-incident-could-potentially-affect-143-million-us-consumers.html

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DTNS 3363 – Space Elevators, Will They Take Off?

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 7th, 2018

The benefits of transportation science can be seen in everything we use, wear and touch. We check out the latest developments in transportation technology from space elevators to light-sails.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Kiki Sanford.

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