CurrentGeek 179: All About Eve

Current Geek/ Shows / July 26th, 2018

Welcome to the Current Geek Film Festival, a special monthly look at the greatest movies of all time from a geeky perspective. 

Our monthly look at the best films ever continues, this time with All About Eve.

DTNS 3333 – Facebook: Maturation or Saturation?

Daily Tech News Show / July 26th, 2018

What Facebook’s slightly low user growth means for the fate of the internet and the world, plus Windows wants to annoy you less and smart watches are finally hot!

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Justin Robert Young

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Facebook Acquires Redkix for Workplaces – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 26th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Qualcomm drops NXP bid, Samsung claims “unbreakable” display, the ACLU criticizes Amazon’s Rekognition facial tech.

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Today in Tech History – – July 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 25th, 2018

1959 – Christopher Cockerell’s Hovercraft crossed the English Channel for the first time, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Frenchman Louis Bleriot’s historic first cross-Channel heavier-than-air flight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/history/britainsince1930s/transport/hovercraft

1990 – Microsoft became the first software company to exceed $1 billion in sales in a single year, reporting revenues of $1.18 billion for fiscal year 1990.

https://www.phase3.net/1990-july-25th-microsoft-revenue-breaks-1-billion/

2010 – Wikileaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US. military history.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks

2016 – The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi a year and two days after taking off on a journey to circumnavigate the globe on solar power. André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard alternated flying the plane but still needed rest between legs. The plane itself was capable of lying nonstop.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/26/12283128/solar-impulse-2-completes-round-the-world-trip-sun

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DTNS 3332 – Where There’s Steam, There’s Chat

Daily Tech News Show / July 25th, 2018

Facebook is rolling out “Watch Party” for all users. The company hopes that its shared viewing feature will make it competitive with streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon and YouTube. Plus Valve launched Steam Chat and Google plans on selling its own Titan Security Keys.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 229 – Sorry to Bother You, Preacher (305), Deadwood (305)

Cordkillers/ Shows / July 25th, 2018

We put on our white voices to talk Sorry to Bother You. Plus, Preacher and Deadwood!

00:41 – Summer Movie Draft update

01:30 – Sorry to Bother You

19:58 – Preacher (305)

23:51 – Deadwood (305)

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Google Selling 2FA Keys – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / July 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google now competes with Yubico, Valve launches Discord competitor in Steam, and why YouTube runs slow outside of Chrome.

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Today in Tech History – – July 24, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 24th, 2018

1874 – Woodward and Evans Light filed a patent for “Artificial light by means of electricity” with the Canadian Department of Agriculture. Woodward later sold the patent to Thomas Edison, who patented a different and more successful version of the incandescent lamp in the US.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cool/002027-2003-e.html

1950 – The Bumper 8, made of a German V-2 missile lower stage and WAC-Corporal upper stage launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the first launch from what would become the Kennedy Space Center.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/first-launch-cape-canaveral-florida-july-24-1950

1969 – Apollo 11 arrived safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/as11/a11facts.htm

2013 – Google announced the Chromecast, a $35 HDMI stick, powered by USB, that streamed video from the Internet and other devices to a TV.

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/24/google-announces-chromecast-a-dongle-to-stream-online-videos-to-your-tv/

Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.

DTNS 3331 – Xbox Swims with the Stream

Daily Tech News Show / July 24th, 2018

As Microsoft readies plans for its next generation gaming console we examine the future of dedicated gaming hardware as software and services take on an even more outsized role in a video game console’s success.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Thanks to our mods, Kylde, Jack_Shid, KAPT_Kipper, and scottierowland on the subreddit

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