New Star Wars TV show, Sense8 finale date, and an Amazon Fire Cube? All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Megan Morrone ( http://twitter.com/meganmorrone ).
DTNS 3272 – End Graphic Violence (in GPU Pricing)!
In the market to upgrade you PC or Mac desktop display? We got TekThing’s Patrick Norton on the show to talk about what you should be on the lookout for when buying a new computer monitor. Plus France.com’s owner files suit against France and T-Mobile and Sprint say I do to a corporate merger.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.
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Today in Tech History – – April 30, 2018
1904 – George Stibitz was born. He pioneered the principles of relay-based computing. And named the “model K” design after his kitchen table. His work led to the Complex Number Calculator, the first remotely accessed computer.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/30/
1916 – Claude Elwood Shannon was born. He is considered the father of information theory and is the man who coined the term ‘bit’ for the fundamental unit of both data and computation.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/30/
1939 – RCA began regularly scheduled television service in New York City, with a telecast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the New York World’s Fair. Programs were transmitted from mobile camera trucks to the main transmitter, which was connected to an aerial atop the Empire State Building. The broadcasting division of RCA was called the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
http://www.bairdtelevision.com/RCA.html
1993 – CERN released a statement declaring the software protocols developed for the World Wide Web would be available in the public domain.
http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 30, 2018
T-Mobile and Sprint want to merge, AMD has a 7-nanometer chip, and the fight over France.com.
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East Meets West 366 – Skills
How to be a man, or any kind of person, what skills do we need?
East Meets West 366 – Skills
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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