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Today in Tech History – – May 30, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 30th, 2018

1966- NASA launched Surveyor 1. It achieved the first soft landing on the Moon by the United States and demonstrated the technology necessary to achieve landing and operations on the lunar surface for the manned missions to follow.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-045A

1979 – IRM was founded in Japan with the purpose of selling electric applied game machines. Two years later they started a subsidiary called Japan Capsule Computer. They eventually spun that division off as Capcom.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/06/12/capcom-marks-25th-anniversary

1987 – North American Philips Company introduced the compact disc video (CD-V), a 12 cm (4-3/4 inch) CD-sized implementation of storage for full motion video and CD-audio.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080821194759/http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2005/may/index.html

1996 – Intel planned to announce a video phone. Frank Gill, executive vice president of Intel’s Internet Communications Group, said he expected hundreds of thousands of video-phone ready computers would be sold that year. Video phones didn’t take off then.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/30/business/intel-plans-pc-video-phone-technology.html

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DTNS 3293 – Patrick is Our Ear Bud

Daily Tech News Show / May 30th, 2018

Patrick Norton is back with his recommendations for the best earbuds on the market. Plus researchers in Finland have discovered “time crystals” that may make it possible to build quantum computers without the need for zero temperature to operate and why Thailand is worried about the overflow of e-waste on to its shores.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Patrick Norton

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 30, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 30th, 2018

Oculus launches live VR streaming, Plex adds podcasts and HP’s new gaming laptop.

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Today in Tech History – – May 29, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 29th, 2018

1919 – Sir Arthur Eddington led a team in Africa to observe the total eclipse, while another team observed it in Brazil, to measure how the sun bent star light during a solar eclipse. The results confirmed Einstein’s theory of Relativity.

http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/einstein.php

1935 – Workers poured the last concrete at the iconic Hoover Dam hydroelectric site. Four months later after the concrete was well and truly set, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the dam.

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/

1992 – John Sculley introduced the Apple Newton at CES. The first one unveiled on stage had dead batteries and didn’t work.

http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/

1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html

2015 – Google announced Levi’s as the first partner for Project Jacquard, a way of weaving electronics into clothing to do things like turn cloth into a touchscreen controller.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2928372/this-smart-fabric-from-google-can-change-the-music-and-turn-off-the-lights.html

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DTNS 3292 – Tapping Buskers

Daily Tech News Show / May 29th, 2018

Cashless payments is changing the way customers pay for goods and services, but how well does it work for non-traditional situations, like busking, where cash has always been king?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Roger Chang.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 29, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 29th, 2018

iOS 11.4 now supports HomePod syncing via Airplay 2, Yandex Plus models Amazon Prime in Russia, Xiaomi’s Mi MIX 2S will support ARCore apps.

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Today in Tech History – – May 28, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 28th, 2018

1936 – Alan Turing submitted his paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” for publication in which he postulated hypothetical Turing Machines would be capable of performing any conceivable mathematical computation if it were representable as an algorithm.

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-library/sources/tp2-ie.pdf

1959 – A committee of government, military and business computer experts met at the Pentagon and laid the foundations for the COBOL computer language.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/09/1959.idg/

1971 – The USSR launched Mars 3. It would arrive at Mars in December and its lander would become the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars.

http://spider.seds.org/mars/mars-l.html

2014 – Apple announced it would acquire Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3 billion. Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine would join the company with the titles of ‘Jimmy’ and ‘Dre.’

http://recode.net/2014/05/28/apple-buys-beats-for-3-billion/

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 28, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 28th, 2018

Vermont regulates data brokers, China set to approve Qualcomm-NXP acquisition, and iOS 12 will open up NFC.

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Today in Tech History – – May 27, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 27th, 2018

1931 – Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took the first manned trip into the stratosphere when they rode in a pressurized cabin attached to a balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rh3YOHLvUv8C&pg=PT30&lpg=PT30&dq=may+27+1931+Auguste+Piccard+and+Charles+Knipfer&source=bl&ots=xO1JisUKos&sig=kl1iga6vBsdejUaq2558cXndkjY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hr-aUda2IeGriALCloCgBw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ

1959 – After almost a decade, MIT shut down its Whirlwind computer. It ran 35 hours a week at 90 percent utility using an electrostatic tube memory.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/May/27/

1986 – Dragon Quest was released in Japan. It combined the full-screen map of Ultima with the battle and statistics-oriented screens of Wizardry and paved the way for RPG games.

http://www.giantbomb.com/dragon-warrior/3030-16305/

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