Shh, it’s A Quiet Place! Plus, The Expanse premiere and we get Lost in Space! Deadwood and Legion return next week with discussion of two episodes!
00:35 – Summer Movie Draft update
07:05 – A Quiet Place
19:03 – The Expanse (301)
24:12 – Lost in Space (101)
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1925 – The first commercial radio facsimile transmission was sent from San Francisco, California to New York City. It was a photograph showing Louis B. Mayer presenting Marion Davies with a gift.
1930 – BBC Radio made the startling announcement that nothing terribly important had happened. Listeners who tuned in to hear the news bulletin were told, “There is no news,” followed by piano music.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm
1986 – Newspapers reported that IBM had become the first to use a megabit chip, a memory chip capable of storing one million bits of information, in its Model 3090.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/18/business/ibm-chip-inaugurates-the-era-of-the-megabits.html
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National governments face a number of challenges with encrypted communications. The need to secure lines of communications between officials but also cracking down on the criminal element using the same technologies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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Apple may integrate Texture magazine app into Apple News, Snap to let creators make their own face filters, Taskrabbit investigates security breach.
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1944 – Harvard University President James Conant wrote to IBM founder Thomas Watson Sr. to let him know that the Harvard Mark I was operating smoothly. It was used in conjunction with the US Navy Bureau of Ships.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/17/
1967 – The Surveyor 3 spacecraft was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida on its mission to the Moon. It was the first to carry a surface soil sampling scoop.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1967-035A
1970 – The Apollo 13 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after a frightening malfunction caused the team to abort landing on the Moon and instead scramble to keep themselves alive.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html
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ESPN+ launches, Netflix grows like crazy, and we get Lost In Space. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Sarah Lane ( http://twitter.com/sarahlane )
We examine the latest trends in the hearables category of assistive technology. Plus ZTE has been a denied the ability to export sensitive technology and how Welsh police convicted 11 people using fingerprints taken from a WhatsApp pic.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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Sony has a new premium phone and e-reader, Sega has a new mini game console and ZTE loses right to export from the US.
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1959 – The programming language LISP had its first public presentation. Created by John McCarthy, LISP offered programmers flexibility in organization.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/16/
1971 – Abhay Bhushan proposed FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in RFC 114.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc114
1976 – The Helios-B deep-space probe made what was then the closest controlled approach to the Sun at 43 million km or within 0.3 AU.
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM64967ESD_index_0.html
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