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Daily Tech Headlines – September 26, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 26th, 2016

Snapchat sunglasses, Adobe partners with Microsoft, a call for IoT security.
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 23, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 23rd, 2016

Twitter up for sale? Yahoo confirms breach, Facebook misreported video views.

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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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Daily Tech Headlines – September 22, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 22nd, 2016

Yahoo once more may announce a breach, Twitter’s transparency report, Rocket Internet cuts costs.

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Today in Tech History – September 22, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 22nd, 2016

1791 – Michael Faraday was born in south London. He grew up to discover electromagnetic induction and coined the terms ‘electrode’, ‘cathode’ and ‘ion.’ He also lent his name to the Faraday cage.

1986 – In NEC Corp. Vs. Intel Corp., the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that microprograms are copyrightable literary works. And so all the trouble began.

2011 – Facebook announced its new Timeline feature which would collect all your posts and materials in chronological order, replacing the old profile.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 21, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 21st, 2016

Google backtracks on Allo privacy, AT&T announces multi gig wireless project, Apple looks into buying McLaren Automotive.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 20, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 20th, 2016

Google’s new phones coming? ARM gets into self-driving chips, How to tell a safe Note 7.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 19, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 19th, 2016

Lyft’s self-driving vision, new GoPro drone, Samsung says it didn’t start this fire.

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Today in Tech History – September 18, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 18th, 2016

1830 – America’s first native locomotive, the “Tom Thumb” lost a race to a draft horse at Ellicotts Mills, Maryland.

1927 – The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System went on the air with 47 radio stations. Within two years it would be sold and become the Columbia Broadcasting System and later simply CBS.

1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers aka ICANN was created in order to take over Internet administrative tasks from the US Government. The most famous of those tasks is overseeing the Domain Name System.

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Today in Tech History – September 16, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 16th, 2016

1890 – Louis Le Prince boarded a train to Paris at Dijon station. Neither he nor his bags ever arrived and his disappearance was never solved. In 188 he had patented a system for taking 16 pictures a second and playing them back as a moving picture.

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, was introduced at the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York City. One of them caught fire. The demo that was carried live on television did not catch fire.

1985 – Steve Jobs spent his last day as an employee of Apple after submitting his resignation to the board.

1997 – After purchasing NeXT the previous December, bringing Steve Jobs back to the company, the Apple Board named Jobs as interim CEO, replacing Gil Amelio.

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