Today in Tech History – – April 29, 2018
1882 – Ernst Werner von Siemens presented his “trackless trolley” called the “Elektromote” in a Berlin suburb. The system pulled electricity from overhead wires, but used road wheels instead of tracks.
http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/transportation.htm#toc-2
1953 – KECA-TV, an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, California, broadcast the first US experimental 3D-TV. An episode of Space Patrol required specially polarized glasses to watch.
2005 – Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, introducing spotlight search and dashboard functionality.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/04/28Apple-Unleashes-Tiger-Friday-at-6-00-p-m.html
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DTNS LABS – INTERVIEW – Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon
We talk with jack Conte about how Patreon came about, and the challenges it faces as it grows.
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Today in Tech History – – April 28, 2018
2001 – Dennis Tito became the first “space tourist” in human history paying his own way to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
http://www.space.com/11492-space-tourism-pioneer-dennis-tito.html
2003 – Apple opened the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99 cents a piece. Songs could play on any iPod and up to three authorised Macs. Windows users were out of luck but tracks could be burned to unlimited numbers of CDs.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/04/28Apple-Launches-the-iTunes-Music-Store.html
2003 – Apple unveiled the “third-generation” iPod. The new iPods were thinner and featured the bottom Dock Connector port rather than the top-mounted FireWire port. The iPod controls also became entirely touch sensitive.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/04/28Apple-Introduces-New-iPods.html
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DTNS 3271 – House Hippo Friday
It’s our end of April DTNS round table. This month we examine technology issues from a Canadian perspective like; the ease at which fake news can be created, how Canadian telecoms want block websites linked to piracy without judicial review and the digital subscription landscape of Canada.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Tristan Jutras, Jenn Cutter and Amber MacArthur.
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Today in Tech History – – April 27, 2018
1981 – The first mouse integrated with a personal computer made its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/
1995 – The Justice Department sued to block Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, claiming the acquisition would raise prices and squash innovation. Intuit still exists but Microsoft Money is long gone.
1998 – Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the first known live interspecies chat with Koko the gorilla. Koko signed her answers; Penny Patterson interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator entered them in the computer.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9804/24/gorilla.chat/index.html
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 27, 2018
Amazon raises Prime price, Apple discontinues Airport, Microsoft revenues soar.
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DTNS 3270 – Mind Over Bacon
Earnings reports from Intel, Microsoft, Amazon and Nintendo. Plus researchers at MIT have successfully kept a pig’s brain alive outside of its body and chip architecture Jim Keller is leaving Tesla and heading for Intel.
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Today in Tech History – – April 26, 2018
1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E3DA1138E033A25755C2A9629C94659FD7CF
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.
http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/
1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.
1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.
2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/landfill-excavation-unearths-years-of-crushed-atari-treasure/
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 26, 2018
Samsung hints at lagging iPhone X sales, IBM launches jewelry blockchain, Tesla loses famed chip architect.
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