Today in Tech History – – July 21, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 21st, 2018

1975 – Xerox announced its withdrawal from computer mainframe manufacturing. The company did indicate it would continue activities in other computer-related businesses like computer disk drives, serial printers, and apparently giving away secrets to companies like Apple and Microsoft.

http://www.navy.mil/SUBMIT/display.asp?story_id=57218

2002 – WorldCom filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history. It was the number two long-distance phone company, at a time when that still meant something. It would end up changing its name back to MCI, and its remains exists as Verizon’s business division.

http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/19/news/worldcom_bankruptcy/

2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, Runway 15, ending the US space shuttle missions.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/launch/sts-135_mission-overview.html

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Today in Tech History – – July 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 20th, 2018

1960 – In a first for missiles, a Polaris A1 test vehicle was successfully launched from the USS George Washington submarine off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_55/StratDeter.html

1969 – In a first for humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. successfully landed the Lunar Module “Eagle” on the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission and became the first humans to ever set foot on Earth’s satellite.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html

1976 – In a first for robots, the Viking 1 lander successfully set down on on Mars in the Chryse Planitia and performed its mission.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html

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DTNS 3329 – Bring a penny, get a part

Daily Tech News Show / July 20th, 2018

How is an upstart wireless broadband provider beating an incumbent cable broadband provider? We find out as Patrick Norton shares his experience with his new internet provider. Plus are tariffs really going to increase the price of popular gadgets? We unpack the news and drill through the FUD.

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Big tech Teams up for Easy Data Transfer – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 20th, 2018

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Big companies want to make it easier for you to swicth services like photo or calendar, Apple, Fitbit, and Sonos may fall under new Tariffs, and WhatsApp limits forwarding.

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Today in Tech History – – July 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 19th, 2018

1961 – Trans World Airlines began offering regular in-flight movies on scheduled flights. The first film shown, only in the first class cabin, mind you, was “By Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

https://travelersunited.org/today/81-years-since-the-first-inflight-movie-was-shown/

1983 – Michael W. Vannier and his co-workers J. Marsh and J. Warren published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single computed tomography (CT) slices of the human head.

http://radiology.rsna.org/content/150/1/179.full.pdf

2004 – Apple announced the fourth-generation iPod with 12-hour battery life and the ability to shuffle songs. HP announced they would sell an HP branded version of this model of the iPod.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/07/19Apple-Introduces-the-New-iPod.html

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DTNS 3328 – 99 Project Loons Go By

Daily Tech News Show / July 19th, 2018

DC is launching the DC Universe streaming service as a hub for all of its properties. One of the chief aims of the service is to bring fans of the DC universe into a location that can provide the detail and nuance that twitter and Facebook can’t provide while also weeding out toxic behavior and harassment. Will it work?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Project Fuschia Could Replace Android in 5 Years – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 19th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Alphabet’s Loon set to cover rural Kenya, last remaining Siri co-founder leaves Apple, DC announces DC Universe at SDCC.

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Today in Tech History – – July 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 18th, 2018

1968 – Robert Noyce, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore incorporated Moore and Noyce electronics, swiftly renamed at Noyce’s daughter’s suggestion to Integrated Electronics Corporation, or Intel for short.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1031210/secret-intel-revealed

1992 – Silvano de Gennaro, an IT developer at CERN took a picture of the singing group ‘Les Horribles Cernettes’ who sang mostly about physics. Tim Berners-Lee would later use that picture as a test, making it the first photo uploaded to the World Wide Web.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9391110/How-the-first-photo-was-posted-on-the-Web-20-years-ago.html

2001 – Apple announced Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first update to OS X.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/18Apple-Previews-Next-Version-of-Mac-OS-X.html

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