Netflix wins, Netflix loses, and Overwatch on TV?! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Mikey Neumann.
Cordkillers 228 – No More Petri Dishes (w/ Mikey Neumann)
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Today in Tech History – – July 16, 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
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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- Quick Hits
- (00:40) Apple Loses Key Sales Executives as India Strategy Stumbles | bloomberg
- (00:55) Wave Uber’s new Spotlight or send canned chats to find your driver | tech crunch
- (01:25) Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150 Billion | bloomberg
- More Top Stories
- (02:25) Here’s what to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S10, including a new feature you won’t find on iPhones | business insider
- (04:40) Watch a self-driving car complete Goodwood’s legendary hill climb | engadget
- (07:10) Roku wants to make your smart TV sound better with its new Wireless Speakers | the verge
- (10:00) Skype 8.0 launches on desktop with HD video, and soon encryption & call recording | tech crunch
- (13:40) Instapaper no longer part of Pinterest, service going independent | 9to5mac
- Discussion Story (16:25)
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (25:05) David – Born Ready Babies
- Today’s Contributor
New Wireless Roku TV Speakers – DTH
Roku 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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Today in Tech History – – July 15, 2018
1928 – The Polish Cipher Bureau picked up enciphered radio signals from the German Reicswehr for the first time. The messages were encoded with Germany’s ENIGMA machine. Cracking the EMIGMA during World War II brought together some of the finest minds in computer science at Bletchley Park in England.
1983 – Nintendo released the Family Computer or Famicom, along with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye cartridges. It would later be released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1437208/Nintendo-console
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbanded the Netscape browser development team. In conjunction, Mozilla created the Mozilla Foundation giving the project its first independent legal existence.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3434
2006 – After a few months being used internally at Odeo, the Twttr service launched for public use. They later added some vowels and spun Twitter out as its own company.
http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
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Today in Tech History – – July 14, 2018
1867 – Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at Merstham Quarry, Surrey.
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=572
1918 – Computer pioneer and MIT professor Jay Forrester was born on a cattle ranch in Climax, Nebraska. With Robert Everett, Forrester led one of the most important early computer projects, the Whirlwind, and developed and founded the field of system dynamics.
http://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/docs/Lane-2011%20Profiles%20in%20Operations%20Research.pdf
1965 – Mariner 4 flew by Mars, taking 21 full pictures, the first close-up photos of another planet returned from space.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1964-077A
2015 – The New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto after traveling for nine and a half years and three billion miles. It was the last of the nine planets to be approached by a probe, though Pluto had been reclassified as a dwarf planet after New Horizons had launched.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/science/space/nasa-new-horizons-spacecraft-reaches-pluto.html?_r=0
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Today in Tech History – – July 13, 2018
1919 – The British airship R34 finished the first airship roundtrip journey across the Atlantic from Scotland to Mineola, Long Island and back to Norfolk, England after 182 hours of flight.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%200948.html
1973 – Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of the Nixon tapes to the US Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in. Always make back-ups, unless you want to remain President.
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/butterfieldapapers.asp
1977 – Lightning struck a Consolidated Edison substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers and setting off a chain of events that resulted in a massive power failure. The entire city of New York was blacked out.
http://www.bronx.com/news/local/429.html
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DTNS 3324 – iPad Affinity for Photoshop
Adobe announces that it will reveal a full featured version Photoshop for the iPad this fall. What does it mean for Apple and what does it tell us about Apple’s hardware strategy. Plus MS pens a blog post detailing the implications of facial recognition on society and the need for greater government regulation of the technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan.
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Photoshop Coming to iPad – DTH
Adobe bringing Photoshop to the iPad, Blue Origin space flights to cost at least $200,000 and PC shipments rise.
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