Daily Tech Headlines – April 20, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 20th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google pauses Allo and adds RCS to Android Messenger, AT&T has a $15 a month skinny TV bundle coming and a German court declares ad blocking legal.

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Today in Tech History x – April 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 20th, 2018

1926 – Sam Warner approved the sound-on-disc system created by Western Electric and created the Vitaphone company to develop the process to add sound to film.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-sound-process-for-films-announced

1940 – Vladimir Zworykin and his team from RCA demonstrated the first electron microscope. It measured 10 feet high and weighed half a ton, achieving a magnification of 100,000x.

https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/john_coleman.html

1964 – The first AT&T picturephone transcontinental call was made between test displays at Disneyland and the New York World’s Fair.

http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/pdf/picturephone.pdf

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DTNS 3265 – Artisanal Chipmaking

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2018

What’s the line between ad-blocking and privacy. Should we support websites and their publishers by letting them make revenue off of visitors or does privacy concerns trump everything else? Plus Facebook plans to make its own semiconductors and Amazon introduces Alexa Blueprints a toolkit that allows any Echo owner to create custom Alexa skills and responses.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 19, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon Prime memberships reach 100M, Facebook makes ToS changes to sidestep GDPR, new satellite startup wants to provide real-time video covering entire planet.

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Today in Tech History x – April 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 19th, 2018

1947 – A report appeared in Billboard magazine of the first public demonstration of the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar lens. The National Broadcasting Company in New York City conducted the demo and the zoom lens soon became standard TV equipment.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=zoomar+lens+national+broadcasting+corporation&source=bl&ots=htr7_jw8_1&sig=WfOmu4YGW6Ij4FeONMXBhoPT2xc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uHhuT6iCEarniAKTsdWeBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=zoomar%20lens%20national%20broadcasting%20corporation&f=false

1957 – The first non-test FORTRAN program was compiled and run by Herbert Bright, manager of the data processing center at Westinghouse. It produced a missing comma diagnostic. Once fixed, a successful attempt followed.

http://books.google.com/books?id=x8BvqSRbR3cC&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=april+19+1957+first+fortran+program&source=bl&ots=2fy7lq-7vX&sig=Vanzeie3xfLAw_-u-34YjFBb1Fg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VhlnUZqDDcaIiAKRo4CQCw&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=april%2019%201957%20first%20fortran%20program&f=false

1965 – “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” by Gordon Moore was published in Electronics. Moore projected that over the next ten years the number of components per chip would double every 12 months. By 1975 he turned out to be right, and the doubling became immortalized as “Moore’s law.”

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1965-Moore.html

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Tom is Coming to Australia

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2018

More details to follow but a meetup in Melbourne is on the books along with Peter Wells and Raj Deut.

Tuesday May 22 6 PM (local date/time) Meetup at Bartronica, 335 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Tom, Peter Wells, Raj Deut and possibly Tom’s sister ( no guarantee on her) will meet up after recording an Australian-focused round table. Come raise a glass and say hi!

DTNS 3264 – Turntable of DOOM!

Daily Tech News Show / April 18th, 2018

Elon Musk tells staff to walk out on bad meetings, Iran bans all govt bodies from using Telegram, and Doom’s soundtrack is coming to vinyl.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 18, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 18th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook rolling out privacy settings alert, Best Buy partnering with Amazon to sell TVs, Chrome now mutes autoplay videos.

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Today in Tech History – April 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 18th, 2018

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.

http://books.google.com/books?id=gqwntXBa4ocC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=radio+facsimile+transmission+1925&source=bl&ots=slULvDJJ1Y&sig=BMSzrSDqLHe8ZXTw5GXrFEV7Lh0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lLVwT-vILovZiAKF8NnHBQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=radio%20facsimile%20transmission%201925&f=false

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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