DTNS 3284 – The Student has become the Cheater

Cheating on exams has been constant thorn in the side of schools and the halls of higher education. But with smart phones, wearables and the internet cheating has become so ubiquitous some schools are taking drastic action to limit student access to personal technology. Will this help stem the tide or does the problem call for new ideas and approaches to testing students.

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 16, 2018

1888 – Emile Berliner demonstrated his flat disc audio recording and reproduction in a lecture he gave to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which was printed in the institute’s Journal (vol. 125, no. 60).

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlgramo.html

1946 – At the meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, now IEEE) in San Francisco, Jack Mullin demonstrated the world’s first professional-quality tape recorded in the US.

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/jmullin.html

1960 – While working at the Hughes Research Laboratories of the Hughes Aircraft company in Malibu, California, physicist Theodore Maiman used an artificial ruby to create the first laser.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201005/physicshistory.cfm

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 16, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft to debut lower-cost Surface tablets, Instagram will launch a time spent feature, Whole Foods now offering discounts to Amazon Prime customers.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 220 – Cobra Kai (101-104), Legion (202-203), Westworld (204)

Complicated feels about Daniel-san on Cobra Kai, Two Grown Men Try To Interpret Or Even Remember Two Episode Of Legion, and we’re warming up to a trippy new Westworld.

01:10 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:57 – Triage (Avengers: Infinity War)
07:57 – Cobra Kai (101-102)
16:14 – Cobra Kai (101-104)
23:09 – Legion (202-203)
33:27 – Westworld (204)

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DTNS 3283 – The UK Unfriends Zuck

Twitter is implementing a new system based on thousands of behavioral signals to filter our tweet replies, searches, and recommendations. Will this help curb abusive and bullying behavior on the platform or will other more invasive measures be needed?

Starring Sara Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 15, 2018

1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada were auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more.

http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/portal/faces/home/our-city/oc-then-now?_adf.ctrl-state=o1bpgew0l_4&_afrLoop=1042646663388628

1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 in Kazakhstan. It failed to reach orbit. Polyus was designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1241842

1997 – Amazon stock went public on NASDAQ.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon

2004 – Using a computer with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, Josh Findley discovered the 41st Mersenne prime, 224,036,583 – 1. Mersenne primes have a close connection to perfect numbers, which are equal to the sum of their proper divisors.

http://books.google.com/books?id=1MTcYrbTdsUC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=may+15+2004+41st+Mersenne+prime,+224,036,583&source=bl&ots=9F92FdSlZa&sig=KP-aMfsLahUdnkaB9TtyKHRDX0I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M66KUeSEFMPKiwK3hoH4Bg&ved=0CGcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=may%2015%202004%2041st%20Mersenne%20prime%2C%20224%2C036%2C583&f=false

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 15, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft teases upcoming Surface Hub 2, Twitter will bury tweets by users for bad behavior, Google announces new storage plans under the new name Google One.

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DTNS 3282 – Tales from the Encrypt

Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME, Tesla engineers reveal they considered adding driver attentiveness when developing the autopilot feature, Uber riders can now rate their ride mid-trip and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over defective keyboards.

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.

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