CurrentGeek 178: Land of Lando

Current Geek/ Shows / July 17th, 2018
Lando is coming back for number 9. Space stuff! HBO is doing a new Whedon show. Do NOT open that coffin. Y: The Last Man is coming to FX. What Star Trek ship would you live on? Echos but for dogs! Toto’s perspective and more!

Today in Tech History – – July 17, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 17th, 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

Daily Tech News Show / July 17th, 2018

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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21st Century Internet Act Introduced – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 17th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Netflix 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)

Cordkillers/ Shows / July 16th, 2018

Netflix wins, Netflix loses, and Overwatch on TV?! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Mikey Neumann.

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Today in Tech History – – July 16, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 16th, 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

Daily Tech News Show / July 16th, 2018

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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New Wireless Roku TV Speakers – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 16th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Roku 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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