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1888 – John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. He would grow up to invent the first working television system in the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml
1912 – The US Department of Commerce issued its first experimental radio license in compliance with the International Radio Convention and Radio Act of 1912. St. Joseph’s College received a license with serial number 1 to operate 2 kilowatts station 3XJ.
http://nationalradioclub.org/articles/1stfacts.txt
2004 – Adam Curry launched an RSS feed of audio recordings called “Daily Source Code” and podcasting became a thing.
http://radio-weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/2004/08/13.html
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An 11 year-old at DEFCON successfully hacks the vote totals on a replica of Florida’s Secretary of State webpage. Lenovo comes out with a thin and light desktop replacement notebook. Samsung updates its SmartThings wireless hub.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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Complex hack of Amazon Echos, a way into a network through FAX capability and a kids hack of the Florida election site.
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1877 – Thomas Edison sketched his idea for the phonograph, and may have even completed a model. The first working model wasn’t completed until December 6.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_phongrph_1.html
1960 – The first NASA communications satellite, Echo 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral. The satellite was a balloon of mylar polyester film.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1960-009A
1977 – The space shuttle Enterprise carried out its first free flight test, when the orbiter was released from the back of a 747 in flight.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/aug-12-1977-shuttle-enterprise-test-9563114
1981 – IBM introduced the model 5150 personal computer. It had a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html
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1942 – Hedy Markey and composer George Antheil received a US patent for a frequency-hopping device. The technique has led to many advancements in wireless technology including Wi-Fi. Markey was better known under her stage name of Hedy Lamarr.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=R4BYAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1950 – Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California. He would grow up to invent the first successful personal computer, and revolutionize desktop computing.
http://mashable.com/category/steve-wozniak/
1965 – Shinji Mikami was born in Japan. He grew up to become a video game designer for Capcom, revolutionizing survival-horror games with his popular series, Resident Evil.
https://www.giantbomb.com/shinji-mikami/3040-32999/
1994 – Net Market founder Dan Kohn watched his friend buy a Sting CD online from Net Market using his credit card. This is sometimes considered the first ecommerce transaction.
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In this episode, we discuss:
Next XBox Rumors
Fortnite bypasses the Play Store on Android
Nintendo sells 20M Switch consoles
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.
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The Amateur Traveller, Chris Christensen, joins us with his picks of must have tech for the avid traveler.
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Macs could get hacked over WiFi during setup, Qualcomm settles with Taiwan, Appel hires away man who oversaw Tesla Model 3 production.
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1859 – US Patent no. 25,076 was issued to Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass. for the first escalator-type moving staircase.
http://www.google.com/patents/US25076
1927 – Computer pioneer Marvin Minsky was born in New York City. Minsky grew up to become a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence research and wrote the book “The Society of Mind.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/384568/Marvin-Minsky
1995 – Netscape Communications staged an IPO. Shares opened at $28 and shot up to $75 per share in one day, becoming one of the indicators of the beginning of the dot-com boom.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4792365
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