Welcome to Current Geek: Autopilot Edition. A chance for us to go back and watch the pilot episode of an old classic/geeky TV show and talk about how it differed from the series it became and what we remember about that series in general! I’m Scott Johnson, he’s Tom Merritt, and this week, we’re talking about The Larry Sanders Show!
Today in Tech History – – August 14, 2018
1888 – Mr. George Gouraud introduced the Edison phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord,” one of the first recordings of music ever made.
https://www.gsarchive.net/sullivan/html/historic.html
1894 – The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code was demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford. A message was transmitted about 50 meters from the old Clarendon Laboratory to the lecture theater of the University Museum.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0262313421
1940 – John Atanasoff finished a paper describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer, or ABC, the computer he designed with Clifford Berry to solve simultaneous linear equations.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/14/
1989 – Sega launched the Genesis console in the US. It had been released in Japan the previous October as the ‘Mega Drive.’
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-true-16-bit-experience-segas-genesis-turns-25
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DTNS 3346 – SaaSy Apple Apps
The Insider reports Apple is encouraging developers to move to software as a subscription model vs one time fee payment. Nvidia takes the wraps off its new Turing GPU architecture. NASA and freelancer.com have picked a winner for Astrobee Challenge.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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Facebook Acqui-Hires Vidpresso Team – DTH
Apple encouraged app developers to adopt subscription models, Tinder founders sue over alleged valuation manipulation, NVIDIA details new Turing GPU.
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Cordkillers 232 – Hollywood Gerrymandering (w/ Shawn DePasquale)
The new Oscars award, Disney exec taking on YouTube, and Roku’s free streaming service. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Shawn DePasquale.
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Today in Tech History – – August 13, 2018
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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DTNS 3345 – Vote Hacking is Child’s Play
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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- Quick Hits
- (01:05) Spotify runs test in Australia, allowing users to skip ads at any time, potentially boosting targeting and revenues | tech crunch
- (01:30) Elon Musk confirms his bid to take Tesla private, backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund | tech crunch
- (02:00) Solar-powered aircraft stays aloft for record-breaking 25 days | engadget
- (02:25) iOS 12 won’t launch with FaceTime group chats | engadget
- More Top Stories
- (02:50) Samsung has a new SmartThings hub and router with Plume’s mesh Wi-Fi tech | engadget
- (05:00) HoloLens will help a children’s hospital perform critical surgeries | tech crunch
- (08:35) AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not | associated press
- How to get Google to stop tracking your location for real | technology review
- (12:20) Dozens of kids hack election site replicas in just minutes | engadget
- (16:30) Elaborate hack turned Amazon Echo speakers into spies | engadget
- (20:50) That Fax Machine You Never Use Could Be a Massive Cybersecurity Risk. Here’s How. | fortune
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (24:25) Chris – realtors
- Today’s Contributor
DEFCON Researchers hack all the things – DTH
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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Today in Tech History – – August 12, 2018
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
Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.
Today in Tech History – – August 11, 2018
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.
Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.