Daily Tech Headlines – May 25, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500GDPR law is live! Essential may sell itself off! Google beats Amazon in smart speaker sales!

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DTNS 3290 – All Aboard the Hellscape Train

Elon Musk goes on a tweet storm about the truthiness of major media outlets. Musk wants to setup a website where the public can rate the credibility of news outlets and ‘core-truth’ of news stories. We examine the issue, the problem and proposed solution.

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 24, 2018

1844 – Samuel Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought” from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to the Mount Clair train depot in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/samuel-morse

1935 – General Electric Co. sold the first spectrophotometer. It could detect two million different shades of color and make a permanent record chart of the results.

http://www.opnmagazine-digital.com/opn/200911?pg=19#pg19

1961 – Wes Clark began working on the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC), at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. It was one of the earliest examples of a user-friendly machine that you could communicate with while it operated. It’s credited with setting the standard for personal computer design.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/May/24/

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 24, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500US Justice Department opens criminal probe into bitcoin price manipulation, Echo speaker records woman’s conversation and sends it to a contact, Elon Musk wants to create journalist rating system.

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DTNS 3289 – Comcast vs Disney, Fight!

Comcast signals its intent for a hostile bid for 21st Century Fox’s assets. What are the implications if its successful and what will Disney’s counter offer be, if it makes one?

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang

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Today in Tech History – – May 23, 2018

1825 – William Sturgeon exhibited the electromagnet in a practical form for the first time. The exhibition accompanied the reading of a paper, recorded in the Transactions of the Society of Arts for 1825 (Vol xliii, p.38).

http://www.archive.org/stream/lecturesonelectr00thomrich/lecturesonelectr00thomrich_djvu.txt

1908 – John Bardeen was born. He grew up to win the Nobel Prize twice, once for inventing the transistor, and once for figuring out superconductivity.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/53122/John-Bardeen

1995 – Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the programming language Java and the accompanying Web browser HotJava at the SunWorld ’95 convention.

http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bomXWB-TYC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=may+23+1995+SunWorld&source=bl&ots=4sKeTPyltP&sig=8Q61Ev3lBux67R2FXV7hWj828O8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ul6UUbikPMGZiQLjuIGgCA&ved=0CHoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=may%2023%201995%20SunWorld&f=false

2002 – Netflix began selling its stock publicly on the NASDAQ. It rose from it’s initial price, unusual for the time when tech company stocks were generally in poor shape.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1022168821804716360

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 23, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500VPNFilter malware affects half a million routers and includes a killswitch, TSMC confirms it’s making 7nm processors for iPhones, Facebook Marketplace now includes home professional services.

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DTNS 3288 – A Fortnite Prize of EPIC Proportions

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO mentioned in an investor relations call that the PlayStation 4 was entering the final phase of its life cycle. Cryptic words to be sure but what does this mean for the PlayStation console and does it signal a shift from gaming as a product to a gaming as service for the company?

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 22, 2018

1973 – Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center wrote a memo on an IBM selectric typewriter, outlining how to connect personal computers to a shared printer. Metcalfe says “If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day, this was it.”

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/diagrams/ethernet-original/

1980 – Namco released an arcade game called Puck-Man. When it was released in the US in October the name was altered to Pac-Man.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1980s/qt/Pac-Man.htm

1990 – Microsoft released Windows 3.0. It featured big improvements in interface and multitasking. It’s Control Panel feature caught the eye of Apple which sued, and lost.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/The-Day-Microsoft-Went-Hollywood-with-Windows-30-292510/

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