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Today in Tech History – September 2, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 2nd, 2017

1859 – A unique combination of solar events including a magnetic explosion severely affected the young telegraph network in North America and Europe. Wires shorted out, fires started and some machines reportedly worked even when disconnected from batteries.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/23oct_superstorm/

1997 – IBM announced that its RS/6000 SP model parallel supercomputer, was now 58 percent faster than Deep Blue, the computer that beat Kasparov at chess.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IBM+Makes+RS%2F6000+SP+Even+Faster%3B+Performance+Gains+Announced+for…-a019735249

2001 – At ECTS in London, Blizzard announced an online RPG version of its popular Warcraft franchise, called “World of Warcraft”.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ects-2001-world-of-warcraft-announced/1100-2810134/

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 1, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 1st, 2017

Microsoft has a date for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Apple has a date for an event that likely will introduce new iPhones and Xiaomi has a date to kill all bezels.

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Today in Tech History – September 1, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 1st, 2017

1902 -Georges Méliès’ film Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) debuted in France. It is often considered the first real science fiction film.
http://www.euronews.com/2011/08/31/back-in-the-day-the-dawn-of-science-fiction
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1994 – The United States Library of Congress held the first of several meetings to plan the conversion of its materials to digital form and make them accessible by computer networks.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/September/1/

1996 – Apple released its Pippin game console in the US. The idea was to provide an inexpensive game-focused computer. Apple licensed third parties like Bandai to make Pippin consoles.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100527212315/http://web.mac.com/sebangulo/Pippin/About_the_Pippin.html

2008 – Google launched its Web browser called Google Chrome.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

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DTNS 3104 – Uber Uses Expedia to Find CEO

Daily Tech News Show / August 28th, 2017

Uber gets a new CEO, Microsoft shows off VR products, Amazon’s brave new grocery world.

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News You Should Know
- (01:05) Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal expect Sep 12th iPhone 8 event
- (02:10) NYPD scrapping Windows phones for iPhones
- (03:35) Munich students win SpaceX competition with 201 mph pod
More Top Stories
- (04:20) Uber expected to name Expedia CEO as new boss
  - Uber’s New CEO May Get at Least $200 Million… – Bloomberg
- (07:35) Microsoft makes many mixed reality announcements at IFA
- (11:55) Fitbit announces new smartwatch
  - Fitbit Ionic and Fitbit Flyer… – Pocket-lint
- (16:25) Amazon cuts Whole Foods stores by up to 43 percent
- (21:10) Sarahah scrutinized for collecting user data
  - Tesla’s … electric truck aims for 200 to 300 miles… – Reuters
Thing of the Day
- (25:45) Tech In Travel Minute
Discussion
- Mailbag Monday
  - (27:35) Ward Oatway – Bitcoin mine construction
  - (29:05) Joe – Just in Time Training
  - (30:45) Anon – Tesla Semi
  - (32:55) anotherJmartin – self-driving car maintenance
  - (34:20) Ethen – Quadcopters
  - (34:45) Jeff Steinhauer – Games to learn programming

DTNS 3101 – PAILs, Rails, and Automobiles

Daily Tech News Show / August 23rd, 2017

Samsung’s Notable Note release, Blizzard reaches out with Hearthstone and Iceland’s drone-delivered hamburgers.

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News You Should Know
More Top Stories
Discussion
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8
  - Samsung makes the Galaxy Note8 Official – Ars Technica
  - Samsung is offering Galaxy Note 7 owners a discount… – The Verge
  - Galaxy Note 8 hands-on: Enough to make you forget the Note 7 – engadget
  - The Galaxy Note 8’s dual camera rivals the iPhone 7 Plus – engadget
  - Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 packs a giant display and a smarter pen – engadget
  - Samsung’s Note 8 has a 6.3-inch screen and an £869 price tag – engadget
  - The Galaxy Note 8 vs. the Note 7: What’s changed? – engadget
  - The Galaxy Note 8 vs. the competition: More than just a stylus – engadget
  - Here’s what the Galaxy Note 8 will cost at AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint – The Verge
  - Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 8 customers get free in-home visits from HelloTech – The Verge
  - Samsung confirms it’s working on a smart speaker – The Verge
Breaking News
- FTC allows Amazon, Whole Foods deal to proceed – CNBC
Thing of the Day
- DTNS Facebook Group
Message of the Day
- Ali Smith – Mozilla Servo, Quantum CSS
- Anonymous – Impending CDN trouble?

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Today in Tech History – September 30, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 30th, 2016

1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.

1954 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Groton, CT.

1980 – Xerox published the Version 1.0 specifications for Ethernet in conjunction with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

2014 – Microsoft announced its next operating system would be called Windows 10, not Windows 9 and would arrive sometime in 2015.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 29, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 29th, 2016

Spotify might buy Soundcloud, Big tech teams up on AI, Facebook comes to work October 10th.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 27, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 27th, 2016

Google’s new operating system, Disney after Twitter, India gets data saving services from Google.

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Today in Tech History – September 25, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 25th, 2016

1956 – The first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1 was inaugurated, replacing slow telegraph and unreliable radio systems.

2001 – Apple announced the release of Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first major upgrade to OS X.

2012 – Blizzard launched its 4th World of Warcraft expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.

2013 – Amazon announced the Kindle HDX tablets with a service called “Mayday” that promised to let users speak with a real person by video over the Internet within 15 seconds of tapping a button.

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Today in Tech History – September 23, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 23rd, 2016

1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.

1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.

1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.

2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.

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