Today in Tech History – – June 24, 2018
1963 – The first demonstration of a home video recorder was made at the BBC News Studios in London. A Telcan, short for television in a can, could record up to 20 minutes of black and white television using quarter-inch tape on a reel to reel system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/aNhfBgCgSByEMns5XPxXqA
1993 – “Severe Tire Damage,” conducted the first known Internet concert. The band set their gear up on the patios of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and sent their show out on the Internet Multicast Backbone, or Mbone.
http://www.std.org/text/press/internetguiden.html
1994 – Geffen Records released the first major label song for digital download. Aerosmith’s “Head First” was available on CompuServe as a .WAV file. It took more than an hour to download.
2000 – President Clinton gave his weekly radio address live on the Internet for the first time.
http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-09.html
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Today in Tech History – – June 23, 2018
1912 – Alan Turing was born in London, although his father worked for the Indian Civil Service and his parents lived in India. He helped break the code of the German enigma machine and developed the Turing test for artificial intelligence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
1943 – Vint Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up to become known as one of the fathers of the Internet, most famously for his co-creation of the protocols underlying TCP/IP.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148576/bio
1983 – Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel ran the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System at the University of Southern California School of Engineering’s Information Sciences.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/dns-marks-20th-birthday-128
1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in Japan becoming the first home console to rely on the analog stick as its primary control.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/09/24/nintendo-64-launching-a-legacy
2005 – Reddit launched online with a submission about the Downing Street memo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33809408@N00/315068778/in/photostream/
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Today in Tech History – – June 22, 2018
1675 – Britain’s King Charles II established the observatory at Greenwich with the main purpose of determining precise longitudes to aid in navigation. This purpose led to Greenwich being marked as the prime meridian and later Greenwich Mean Time.
1799 – The first definitive prototype metre bars (mètre des Archives) and kilograms were constructed in platinum.
http://www.sizes.com/units/meter.htm
1996 – Quake, the successor to the first-person shooter Doom was released by id Software with music composed by Trent Reznor. The Quake engine offered full real-time 3D rendering and had early support for 3D acceleration through OpenGL. It also added several multiplayer options.
http://rome.ro/news/2016/6/22/happy-20th-birthday-quake
1999 – The first demonstration of live rats directly controlling a robot arm with their thoughts was published by Nature Neuroscience.
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news-listing/rats-operate-robotic-arm-brain-activity
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DTNS 3310 – Sewing the Seeds of Success
What’s the state of diversity in tech and are the steps used to help improve the situation working? Plus YouTube announces new revenue options for creators and US Supreme Court rules that privacy in the digital age includes cellphone data held by 3rd parties.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Rose Dickey, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.
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- Quick Hits
- (00:55) Sinemia preempts MoviePass with family-plan subscriptions from $9 per month | cnet
- (01:10) Twitter ‘smytes’ customers | tech crunch
- (01:35) Pocket Casts opens beta testing to all users | android police
- More Top Stories
- (02:00) Uber car’s ‘safety’ driver streamed TV show before fatal crash: police | reuters
- (06:30) YouTube introduces channel memberships, merchandise and premieres | tech crunch
- (09:50) Supreme Court decides against warrantless location searches in a major privacy decision | the verge
- (11:40) Facebook expands its Messenger Kids app beyond the U.S. to Canada and Peru | venture beat
- (14:25) Pay-as-you-go solar energy for Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland | iafrikan
- Discussion Story (15:55)
- Thing of the Day
- (24:25) Tech In Travel Minute
- Messages of the Day
- (26:35) Geoff – sales tax
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 22, 2018
YouTube offers new monetization options, Uber driver watching Hulu during fatal-autonomous car accident, Microsoft launches visual search.
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Today in Tech History – – June 21, 2018
1948 – The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM took 52 minutes to run its first program, written by Professor Tom Kilburn. SSEM was the first computer to store programs electronically. The SSEM was nicknamed the “Manchester Baby”.
http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/computer50/www.computer50.org/mark1/new.baby.html
1981 – IBM retired the last of its “STRETCH” mainframes. These mainframes were part of the 7000 series that made up the company’s first transistorized computers.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/other/4375893/IBM-retires-7030–STRETCH–computer–June-21–1981
2004 – SpaceShipOne became the first privately developed piloted vehicle to leave Earth’s atmosphere and reach the edge of space.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spaceshipone
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#327 – Real Housewives of the Aegean
Why we think Amazon may have been cribbing off us, the reality TV connection to ancient Greece, and the raging 2X audiobook debate speeds along.
DTNS 3309 – Chief Justice Etsy
The US Supreme Court rules that states can force online stores to collect taxes on goods sold in their jurisdiction. How will this ruling shake up the e-tailing space in the USA and what will it mean for smaller players?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 21, 2018
Brian Krzanich out as Intel CEO, Microsoft says it’s not working on VR for Xbox, AT&T shares Watch TV internet service partners.
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