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Today in Tech History – – July 17, 2018
1899 – Nippon Electric Company Ltd. (NEC) was founded by Iwadare Kunihiko, an expert in telegraphic systems who worked under Thomas Edison. Western Electric provided funding, making it the first Japanese joint-venture with a foreign company.
http://www.nec.com/en/global/about/history.html
1995 – The US Air Force announced the Global Positioning System had met requirements for Full Operational Capability. The navigation system was strictly the province of the US Department of Defense operated by the 2nd Space Operation Squadron of the 50th Space Wing at Falcon Air Force Base in Colorado.
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/foc.txt
1997 – DNS was widely disrupted making email routing and web page delivery spotty throughout the day. An Ingres database failure resulted in corrupt .COM and .NET zone files. A system administrator mistakenly released the zone file without regenerating the file and verifying its integrity.
http://scripting.com/davenet/stories/DNSOutage.html
2002 – Apple announced PC versions of the iPod with MusicMatch software instead of iTunes. The company also announced a 20 GB version of the music player and touch-sensitive scroll wheel and dropped the prices.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/07/17Apple-Unveils-New-iPods.html
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DTNS 3326 – Airbnb On The Side of Caution
How should Airbnb handle people with criminal convictions. Should all data be made relevant or just the most recent or the most serious?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:20) Samsung Announces First LPDDR5 DRAM Chip, Targets 6.4Gbps Data Rates & 30% Reduced Power | anandtech
- (02:00) Exclusive: Kenya’s Safaricom taking M-Pesa to Ethiopia, sources say | reuters
- (02:20) Telecom Egypt, Liquid Telecom announce MoU on first fibre network from Cape to Cairo | biztechafrica
- More Top Stories
- (03:00) IBM seeks $167 million from Groupon in dispute over early internet patents | reuters
- (04:35) The 21st Century Internet Act aims to enshrine net neutrality in law | tech crunch
- (07:15) Microsoft and Walmart team up to take on Amazon | the verge
- (09:25) Netflix shares tank after big miss on subscriber growth | reuters
- (13:50) How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First | bloomberg
- Discussion Story (18:25)
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (28:05) Jon – Instapaper/Pocket users
- Today’s Contributor
21st Century Internet Act Introduced – DTH
Netflix misses subscriber growth targets, Walmart and Microsoft team up against Amazon, IBM sues Groupon.
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Cordkillers 228 – No More Petri Dishes (w/ Mikey Neumann)
Netflix wins, Netflix loses, and Overwatch on TV?! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Mikey Neumann.
Cordkillers 228 – No More Petri Dishes (w/ Mikey Neumann)
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Today in Tech History – – July 16, 2018
1945 – The United States detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. The Trinity test ushered in the atomic age.
http://www.osti.gov/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/trinity.htm
1951 – VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/16/
1969 – Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html
1995 – Amazon.com opened for business selling books online. Shipments were packed into boxes from a desk made out of a spare door in a two-car garage in Bellevue, Washington.
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2004089,00.html
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DTNS 3325 – Don’t Believe the Skype
We discuss the reason’s why some of Instagram’s biggest memers are locking their accounts and going private with their posts. Will this new approach ensure enough mindshare on a crowded platform?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
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- Quick Hits
- (00:40) Apple Loses Key Sales Executives as India Strategy Stumbles | bloomberg
- (00:55) Wave Uber’s new Spotlight or send canned chats to find your driver | tech crunch
- (01:25) Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150 Billion | bloomberg
- More Top Stories
- (02:25) Here’s what to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S10, including a new feature you won’t find on iPhones | business insider
- (04:40) Watch a self-driving car complete Goodwood’s legendary hill climb | engadget
- (07:10) Roku wants to make your smart TV sound better with its new Wireless Speakers | the verge
- (10:00) Skype 8.0 launches on desktop with HD video, and soon encryption & call recording | tech crunch
- (13:40) Instapaper no longer part of Pinterest, service going independent | 9to5mac
- Discussion Story (16:25)
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- (25:05) David – Born Ready Babies
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New Wireless Roku TV Speakers – DTH
Roku launches its wireless speakers for Roku TVs, an autonomous car completes the Goodwood course, and Scotland’s getting Europe’s first vertical takeoff spaceport.
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Today in Tech History – – July 15, 2018
1928 – The Polish Cipher Bureau picked up enciphered radio signals from the German Reicswehr for the first time. The messages were encoded with Germany’s ENIGMA machine. Cracking the EMIGMA during World War II brought together some of the finest minds in computer science at Bletchley Park in England.
1983 – Nintendo released the Family Computer or Famicom, along with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye cartridges. It would later be released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1437208/Nintendo-console
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbanded the Netscape browser development team. In conjunction, Mozilla created the Mozilla Foundation giving the project its first independent legal existence.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3434
2006 – After a few months being used internally at Odeo, the Twttr service launched for public use. They later added some vowels and spun Twitter out as its own company.
http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
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