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Today in Tech History – – June 3, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 3rd, 2018

1889 – The first long-distance transmission of electricity took place, sending power from a hydroelectric generator at Willamette Falls 14 miles to 55 street lights at 4th and Main in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMH4P_FIRST_High_Tension_Power_Line_Portland_Oregon

1948 – Ed Brown Jr., a former Navy pilot, opened a fly-in movie theater near Wall Township, New Jersey. You could also drive in. The theater had space for 500 cars and 25 small planes could land in a nearby airfield and taxi over to the theater.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8593

1965 – Gemini 4 launched on the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performed the first US spacewalk.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-iv/gemini-iv.html

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Today in Tech History – – June 2, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 2nd, 2018

1883 – Thomas Edison and Stephen D. Field built the world’s first elevated electric railway. It was a narrow-gauge 3-foot-wide track in the gallery around the edge of the main exhibition building of the Chicago Railway Exhibition. It ran nine miles per hour.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/06/0602first-chicago-el-runs-indoors/

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applied for British Patent number 12039 regarding a system of telegraphy using Hertzian waves. We’d call it radio.

http://marconisociety.org/about/marconi-family/

2003 – The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. It was the fastest planetary probe to be built.

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMFU55V9ED_0.html

2014 – Apple announced OS X Yosemite and iOS8 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Among the features were the ability to answer phone calls on your OS X computer, the ability for iOS apps to talk directly to each other, third=party keyboards for iOS, and a new programming language called Swift.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-targets-google-wwdc-2014-os-x-mavericks-ios-8-1593874

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Today in Tech History – – June 1, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 1st, 2018

1890 – The US Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine for the first time. This gave Hollerith the basis to later found his Tabulating Machine Company, which was one of four companies that merged to form IBM.

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/library/this_week_in_reading_0601-0607.asp

1944 – The Colossus Mark 2 was put into service at Bletchley Park in Great Britain, just in time for the invasion at Normandy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=gfL4ky-TQOMC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=june+1+1944+colossus&source=bl&ots=LZ3i_tbzIt&sig=8RKO7B38Hpxplje8ydxyToLLB8E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mr6iT5WVLuqciALEgaWMBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw

1999 – The Windows version of music-sharing program Napster was released.

http://www.oldapps.com/napster.php

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 1, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 1st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook kills off Trending section, Nokia sells Withings health device division back to its founder and Fortnite might come to the Nintendo Switch.

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Sunday Science Supplement for June 27, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / June 27th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150Dr. Nicole Ackermans goes into detail about the latest advances in protein structure prediction using DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI.

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Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning | Nature

Sunday Science Supplement for June 20, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / June 20th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150Researchers from Facebook and Michigan State University demonstrated a method for inferring characteristics of an AI model from its generated imagery, effectively reverse engineering deepfakes. Dr. Nicole Ackermans digs into the research in your Sunday Science Supplement.

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Reverse Engineering of Generative Models: Inferring Model Hyperparameters from Generated Images

Sunday Science Supplement for June 13, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / June 13th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150Science correspondent Dr. Nicole Ackermans breaks down the details about Google’s research article in Nature, describing an algorithm to design computer chips within hours, versus month required for human-based design.

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Sunday Science Supplement for June 6, 2021 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / June 6th, 2021

DTH-6-150x150Virgin Galactic announced a new contract for human-tended research aboard its suborbital spacecraft, VSS Unity, where Kellie Gerardi, a researcher and science communicator, will conduct two experiments during an upcoming flight. Virgin Galactic recently launched its first successful test flight from New Mexico and plans to complete its test campaign during this year, according to the vice president of government affairs for Virgin, Sirisha Bandla.

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Virgin Galactic announces another human-tended science flight | Ars Technica

Apple to host virtual WWDC on June 22 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / May 5th, 2020

DTH-6-150x150Uber bailing out Lime? PewDiePie signs livestream deal with YouTube, Mozilla releases Firefox 76.

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Today in Tech History – – September 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 19th, 2018

1982 – In a posting made at 11:44 AM, Professor Scott Fahlman first proposed using the characters 🙂 to indicate jokes on a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. In the same post he suggested :-(.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

1989 – About 100 hospitals that used software from Shared Medical Systems saw their computers go into a loop when the date was entered. The day was 32,768 days from January 1, 1900, which caused a system overflow.

http://books.google.com/books?id=k29i2RUzg0EC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=september+19+1989+hospital+bug&source=bl&ots=LGg9GLyZD9&sig=fCpVkfK7qoMCUGiKvhpgeFpC48A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aIUlUMSFIsLtiwL914GICg&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=september%2019%201989%20hospital%20bug&f=false

1995 – International Talk Like a Pirate Day was first celebrated by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon. They had come up with the idea on June 6th while playing racquetball, but that was D-Day. The 19th was Summers’ ex-wife’s birthday, and the only day he could reliably remember.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

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