Daily Tech Headlines – May 21, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 21st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft buys Semantic Machines, the Obamas ink Netflix content deal, Facebook partners with Qualcomm for Telegraph wireless internet project.

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Today in Tech History – – May 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 20th, 2018

1875 – 17 nations (including the US) signed the ‘Convention du Mètre’ in Paris, France, establishing the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.

http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/documents/official/metre-convention.pdf

1891 – The first public demonstration of a prototype Kinetoscope was given at Edison’s laboratory, for approximately 150 members of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. The New York Sun reported on the demonstration.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist.html

1958 – Robert Baumann obtained a patent for a satellite. (US. No. 2,835,548). The patent stipulated the government could use the technology without having to pay royalties.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=3G9oAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope sent its first light image back to Earth, taken with the wide field/planetary camera.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1990/04/

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Today in Tech History – – May 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 19th, 2018

1857 – William Francis Channing of Boston and Moses Gerrish Farmer, of Salem received the first US patent for an “electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph for cities” (No. 17,355).

http://www.google.com/patents?id=fGdWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1961 – Venera 1 became the first manmade object to fly by another planet, passing within 100,000 KM of Venus. The probe did not send back any data having lost contact with Earth a month earlier.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1961-003A

2006 – Apple opened its 20,000-square foot store at 767 Fifth Avenue. It was the second Apple store in New York City but the iconic glass cube made it the most famous.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/05/18The-Apple-Store-Fifth-Avenue-to-Open-on-Friday-May-19.html

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DTNS 3286 – A Tidal Wave of Security News

Daily Tech News Show / May 18th, 2018

With recent stories covering data security issues from cellphone location data tracking to PGP and S/MIME vulnerabilities we have Shannon Morse here to break it all down and give us an infosec perspective.

Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.

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Today in Tech History – – May 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 18th, 2018

1923 – The first patent application for the rotary-dial telephone was submitted in France by Antoine Barnay.

http://books.google.com/books?id=JTYPKxug49IC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=Antoine+Barnay+1923&source=bl&ots=C6QeWA_CR4&sig=mjX1XffckJdqC_f1Uj85C7o2pQM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bu-RT6jEAYWMigLVwLHRDQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Antoine%20Barnay%201923&f=false

1953 – Jackie Cochran took off from Rogers Dry Lake, California piloting an F-86 Sabre plane and reached averaged speeds of 652.337 miles per hour, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/today-in-history-jackie-cochran-breaks-the-sound-barrier-130780022/?no-ist

1969 – Apollo 10 launched, going on to complete all the stages of a moon landing mission without landing on the Moon. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford descended in the Lunar Module to within 15KM of the lunar surface.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-10/apollo-10.html

1998 – The United States Department of Justice and twenty US states filed civil actions against Microsoft, alleging the company abused monopoly power regarding operating system and Web browser sales.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/1998/1764.htm

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 18, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 18th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple’s HomePod speaker sales are only 6% of global market, Fortnite coming to Android this summer, Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy.

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DTNS 3285 – All Bets are On

Daily Tech News Show / May 17th, 2018

Federal laws restricting Sports Gambling in the United States have been struck down by the Supreme Court. Will this start a new gold rush into online gambling as companies take advantage and who will be the winners and the losers?

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

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Today in Tech History – – May 17, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 17th, 2018

1902 – While going through objects recovered by divers near Antikythera off the coast of Greece, archaeologist Valerois Stais discovered a strange device with gear-wheels inside. The Antikythera mechanism has been puzzling investigators for more than a hundred years.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/17/antikythera-mechanism-discovered-115-years-ago/

1939 – The National Broadcasting Company televised the first sporting event, the second game of a doubleheader baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. About 400 TV sets were capable of receiving the broadcast. Princeton won 2-1 in the 10th.

http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3738874

1943 – The US Army and the University of Pennsylvania signed a contract to develop ENIAC. It was planned to use vacuum tubes and calculate ballistic firing tables.

http://www.nww2m.com/2013/05/70th-anniversary-eniac-contract-signed/

1954 – The first shovel load of earth was dug on the Meyrin site of the first CERN Laboratory building in Geneva.

https://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-history-of-CERN

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 17, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 17th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube Red splits into YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, US Senate votes in favor of net neutrality, questions arise about Google Duplex status.

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