Westworld sets a new canvas with the season finale, plus a season finale AND premiere of Deadwood. And a Movie Draft update!
00:38 – Summer Movie Draft update
05:28 – Westworld (210)
25:50 – Deadwood (212-301)
Daily Tech Headlines – June 27, 2018
Samsung sets announcement for August 9, Google starts testing Duplex natural voice calls, IBM and Microsoft make facial recognition work for all faces.
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CurrentGeek 175: Singing In The Rain (Film Fest)
Our monthly look at the best films ever continues, this time with Singing In The Rain!
Today in Tech History – – June 26, 2018
1954 – At 5:30 PM the world’s first nuclear power station was connected to the power grid in Obninsk, US.S.R., a small town 60 miles south of Moscow.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2004/obninsk.html
1974 – At 8:01 AM, a supermarket cashier scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum across a bar-code scanner at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was the first product ever checked out by Universal Product Code.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/technology/26barcode.html
1997 – The US Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Communications Decency Act as violating the first amendment protecting free speech.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/26/cda.overturned.hfr/index.html?eref=sitesearch
2014 – Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects lab stole the show at the Google I/O developer conference, with a demonstration of Project Tango’s 3D-mapping capability and Project Ara’s modular phone.
http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/google-project-tango-ara/
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DTNS 3312 – Checking in on 5G
5G is coming with its promise of faster speeds. Will this wireless cell technology finally give mobile users the same speeds as broadband users? And will this new technology provide meaningful competition for incumbent broadband providers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Luria Petrucci.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 26, 2018
WiFi Alliance starts supporting WPA3, Mozilla announces Firefox Monitor to help identify security breaches, Uber gets a provisional license reinstated in London.
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Cordkillers 225 – Our AI Are Teenagers Now
New MoviePass-like deals, Roku subscription video, and Timeless is out of time again. All this and more on Cordkillers!
Today in Tech History – – June 25, 2018
1967 – The very first Consumer Electronics Show opened in New York occupying the Americana and New York Hilton Hotels. It was devoted to home entertainment electronics and featured such advances as portable color TVs and video tape recorders.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/first-consumer-electronics-show/
1981 – After six years as a company, Microsoft incorporated in the state of Washington.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/default.aspx
1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98 with less hype than Windows 95, but more consumer focus.
http://money.cnn.com/1998/06/25/technology/win98_pkg/
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DTNS 3311 – Strawberry Robots Forever
At VidCon 2018 YouTube announced new revenue opportunities for creators and Instagram unveiled IGTV for longer format video content. We asked YouTube Lamarr Wilson for a creator’s perspective on these new policies and how it will change things moving forward.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 25, 2018
Apple Airpods might get noise-canceling, Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 takes on Intel for PCs,Google’s Android security feature could also be used as DRM.
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