We’re very excited about the Expanse coming back and Gail Carriger’s plans and that the “What are we drinking” segment got a good review! Plus the different takes on mythology from our two latest book picks.
Today in Tech History – – May 31, 2018
1941 – Electric eye detectors were first used to measure high-jumping height. A track meet of the Schenectady, NY, Patrolmen’s Association used equipment designed by General Electric, comprising of a movable light source and four electric eyes.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9iYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q&f=false
1943 – Chief consultant John Mauchly and chief engineer John Presper Eckert began leading the military commission on the new computer ENIAC. They would take one year to design the computer and 18 months to build it.
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm
2006 – Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay website and shut it down. The site relaunched from servers outside Sweden.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-five-years-after-the-raid-110531/
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DTNS 3294 – Film is the New Vinyl
The influential VC, Mary Meeker, has released her highly anticipated 2018 Internet Trends report. We break down her analysis and discuss the implications of her findings.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 31, 2018
Uber CEO says company IPO on track for 2019, teens love Facebook more than other platforms, Canon stops sales of its final film camera.
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Today in Tech History – – May 30, 2018
1966- NASA launched Surveyor 1. It achieved the first soft landing on the Moon by the United States and demonstrated the technology necessary to achieve landing and operations on the lunar surface for the manned missions to follow.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-045A
1979 – IRM was founded in Japan with the purpose of selling electric applied game machines. Two years later they started a subsidiary called Japan Capsule Computer. They eventually spun that division off as Capcom.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/06/12/capcom-marks-25th-anniversary
1987 – North American Philips Company introduced the compact disc video (CD-V), a 12 cm (4-3/4 inch) CD-sized implementation of storage for full motion video and CD-audio.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080821194759/http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2005/may/index.html
1996 – Intel planned to announce a video phone. Frank Gill, executive vice president of Intel’s Internet Communications Group, said he expected hundreds of thousands of video-phone ready computers would be sold that year. Video phones didn’t take off then.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/30/business/intel-plans-pc-video-phone-technology.html
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DTNS 3293 – Patrick is Our Ear Bud
Patrick Norton is back with his recommendations for the best earbuds on the market. Plus researchers in Finland have discovered “time crystals” that may make it possible to build quantum computers without the need for zero temperature to operate and why Thailand is worried about the overflow of e-waste on to its shores.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Patrick Norton
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 30, 2018
Oculus launches live VR streaming, Plex adds podcasts and HP’s new gaming laptop.
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Today in Tech History – – May 29, 2018
1919 – Sir Arthur Eddington led a team in Africa to observe the total eclipse, while another team observed it in Brazil, to measure how the sun bent star light during a solar eclipse. The results confirmed Einstein’s theory of Relativity.
http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/einstein.php
1935 – Workers poured the last concrete at the iconic Hoover Dam hydroelectric site. Four months later after the concrete was well and truly set, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the dam.
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/
1992 – John Sculley introduced the Apple Newton at CES. The first one unveiled on stage had dead batteries and didn’t work.
http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html
2015 – Google announced Levi’s as the first partner for Project Jacquard, a way of weaving electronics into clothing to do things like turn cloth into a touchscreen controller.
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DTNS 3292 – Tapping Buskers
Cashless payments is changing the way customers pay for goods and services, but how well does it work for non-traditional situations, like busking, where cash has always been king?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Roger Chang.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 29, 2018
iOS 11.4 now supports HomePod syncing via Airplay 2, Yandex Plus models Amazon Prime in Russia, Xiaomi’s Mi MIX 2S will support ARCore apps.
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