Daily Tech Headlines – June 8, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Goodbye Yahoo messenger, Goodbye to a lot of AirBnB reservations in japan, and hello new Verizon CEO.

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Today in Tech History – – June 7, 2018

1954 – Computer science hero Alan Turing died. His death was ruled a suicide from eating an apple containing cyanide. Turing formulated the famous Turing test and broke code at Bletchley park during World War II.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/

1975 – Sony introduced the Betamax video recorder for sale. It would lose the format war to VHS but find a niche in broadcast production.

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/this+history+june+1975/6745667/story.html

1980 – The first US solar power plant was dedicated at the Natural Bridge National Monument, Utah.

http://books.google.com/books?id=jC1QAAAAYAAJ&q=natural+bridges+solar+june+7+1980&dq=natural+bridges+solar+june+7+1980&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9sGnUda-E8iaiALLk4DgBQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA

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DTNS 3299 – Steam-ier Content

Valve unveiled a new policy allowing anything to be posted to the Steam Store as long as the content is not something Valve decides is illegal, or straight up trolling. Is this policy of relaxed control an effort to reduce the need to moderate the store or is something else at play?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 7, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Instagram may offer long-form video, Valve eases up on content censorship, Amazon announces Fire TV Cube.

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Today in Tech History – – June 6, 2018

1933 – The world’s first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. Richard Hollingshead Jr. had developed the system by using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and aimed at a screen pinned to some trees.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-drive-in-movie-theater-opens

1984 – Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov completed the first playable version of Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, was released. It was popularized by Hank Rogers who bought the rights and distributed it.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/tetris/

1995 – The Los Angeles Times reported that Father Leonard Boyle was working to put the Vatican’s library on the World Wide Web through a site funded by IBM.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/June/6/

2013 – The Guardian published another leak from Edward Snowden about the PRISM project used to gather data held by Google, Facebook, Apple and other US tech companies. The tech companies denied “back door access” to their systems.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

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DTNS 3298 – Defrag the Seagulls

Sonos pulled the wraps off the Beam. A smart home theater sound bar that integrates Amazon’s Alexa many have speculated that its Sonos’s attempt to take over the connected living room. Will it succeed or end up on the latest in a long line of failed attempts?

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 6, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Sonos new smart home theater speaker, Facebook shared data with Huawei, AMD’s 32-core Threadripper.

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DTNS 3297 – Notch Yo Full Screen Phone

We take a look at Asus announcements from this year’s Computex, China is launching a probe into DRAM price fixing, Qualcomm announced a new Snapdragon processor for PCs and Intel pulls the wraps off a special edition 5Ghz processor to celebrate its 50 yrs anniversary.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 5, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500WWDC key announcements, Sharp buys Toshiba’s PC biz, Intel releases limited edition 8086 chip.

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