Daily Tech Headlines – April 11, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 11th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Spotify might tweak its free tier, Qualcomm has new machine learning chips for IoT and Uber gets into car rentals and public transportation.

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Today in Tech History – April 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 11th, 2018

1936 – German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse filed for a patent for the automatic execution of calculations, and described combination memory, an early form of programmable memory. Zuse was working on what would become Germany’s first computer, the Z-1.

http://books.google.com/books?id=emmitTbOoFgC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=%22april+11%22+1936+konrad+zuse&source=bl&ots=FiErE_FGVF&sig=G7iEg5nPuhSK4afsnpcyb7EgcWM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rvZcUey7LKqdiALMrYDQBQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22april%2011%22%201936%20konrad%20zuse&f=false

1957 – The Ryan X-13 Vertijet took off from Edwards Air Force base flew for a few minutes and landed. The significant part of the short flight was that it took off and landed vertically, becoming the first jet capable of doing so.

http://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/ryan-x-13-vertijet/

1970 – The ill-fated Apollo 13 launched from Kennedy Space Center. The second-stage inboard engine shut down early but orbital insertion was achieved. However the problems were not over.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_13/overview/

2012 – Pebble launched its smartwatch Kickstarter. It would become successful and lead to the resurgence of interest in smartwatches.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android

2017 – Microsoft officially ended support for Windows Vista on the same day it launched its Windows 10 Creators update.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15241580/microsoft-windows-vista-end-of-support

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DTNS 3258a – Ban ¢ash movement

Daily Tech News Show / April 10th, 2018

As countries like Sweden push for cashless payments it seems the future of currency is electronic payments but is this a necessarily a good thing? Plus Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gets a grilling on Capital Hill and the W3C and FIDO Alliance announce WebAuthn, a password-free open standard supported by the latest version of Firefox.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 10, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 10th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook announces data abuse bounty program, Walmart to use Postmates for grocery delivery, Vevo YouTube account hacked.

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Today in Tech History – April 10, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 10th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1710 – The Statute of Anne entered into force in Great Britain. The statute ended the practice of copyright being enforced by the Stationer’s Guild under the licensing act and for the first time granted copyright to authors.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/anne_1710.asp

1943 – Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania began work on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer known as ENIAC. The machine that was synonymous for years with the word computer, could perform 5,000 additions per second.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/10/

2003 – British Airways and Air France announced the retirement of all Concorde supersonic jets. After a quarter century of supersonic speeds, passengers in the 21st century would go slower than those who flew in the late 20th century.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/04/10/concorde.history

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DTNS 3257 – Mr. Zuck Goes to Washington

Daily Tech News Show / April 9th, 2018

Zuckerberg meets lawmakers on Capital Hill, Facebook suspends two data analytic companies, and Facebook partners with nonprofit foundations to measure the affects of Social Media on elections. Plus PayPal is rolling out FDIC insured debit cards and Leap Motion announces Project North Star.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 9, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 9th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber buys a bike-sharing company, Apple issues new RED phones and Facebook apologizes to the US Congress.

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Today in Tech History – April 9, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 9th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1860 – Parisian typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his Phonoautogram to record sound onto paper but had no way to play it back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html

1919 – Presper Eckert was born in Philadelphia. Eckert became famous for his work, with John Mauchly on the ENIAC project.

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/entrepreneuereckert

1959 – NASA publicly announced the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, who quickly became known as the “Mercury Seven”.

http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/intro.htm

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