Today in Tech History – – October 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 25th, 2018

1955 – Tappan introduced the first microwave oven for home use. It sold for $1,295. Raytheon developed the Radarrange after engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.

https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399387/1st-domestic-microwave-is-sold–October-25–1955

1977 – VAX/VMS was born. At a shareholder meeting, DEC, the Digital Equipment Corporation, released VMS v1.0 the first version of what we later would call OpenVMS, along with the VAX 11/780 architecture which increased the PDP-11 address space.

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/30th/t_past_text.html

2001 – Microsoft Windows XP hit retail shelves for the first time.

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.london.launch/

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DTNS 3396 – Christie’s Came to the Obvious Conclusion

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 25th, 2018

At a recent Christie’s auction a portrait created by a machine learning algorithm sold for $432,500. Does art need to be created by human hands to be considered “true” art and can AI ever truly be considered artistic?

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

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Twitter Loses 9M MAUS in Q3 – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Xiaomi launches Mi Max 3, the UK fines Facebook max penalty for Cambridge Analytica scandal, Microsoft reports record 1st quarter earnings.

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DTNS 3395 – The Ethics of Privacy

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 24th, 2018

At the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Apple’s Tim Cook, keynote warned of the need to establish laws and regulations governing the use of personal data to stop the weaponization of data.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 241 – The Good Place (304), Dirk Gently’s HDA (104)

Cordkillers/ Shows / October 24th, 2018

Dirk Gently gives us a puzzle and The Good Place is RIPPED! Plus, a Movie Draft update.

00:39 – Winter Movie Draft update

04:11 – The Good Place (304) – Jeremy Bearimy

14:44 – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (104)

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Tim Cook Calls for Stronger Privacy Laws – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 24th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple’s CEO gives blistering speech on privacy, Google makes search data easier to access, HP has new long-life laptops.

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Today in Tech History – – October 23, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 23rd, 2018

1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. Some argue he should be credited with the first flight at all. But that’s a long controversy.

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/graphic/aviation/alberto.html

1995 – A federal judge for the first time authorized a wiretap of a computer network, leading to hacking charges against a young Argentinean for breaking into sensitive US government networks.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/10/1023first-computer-wiretap/

2001 – Apple announced their new music player, the iPod. Apple used PortalPlayer’s reference platform and hired Pixo to design and implement the user interface. The iPod became the first massively successful digital music player.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/10/23Apple-Presents-iPod.html

2012 – Apple announced the iPad Mini at 7.9 inches.

http://techland.time.com/2012/10/23/apple-announces-ipad-mini-for-329-fourth-generation-ipad/

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DTNS 3394 – A PC by Any Other Name…

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 23rd, 2018

As a greater share of professional-grade services and apps make their way to smartphones, tablets and cloud services is their a reason to own a PC anymore?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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HTC’s Cryptocurrency Phone Launches – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / October 23rd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple will solve Beautygate, HTC has a cryptocurrency phone and Qualcomm’s new mid-range processor packs a punch.

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