DTNS 3283 – The UK Unfriends Zuck
Twitter is implementing a new system based on thousands of behavioral signals to filter our tweet replies, searches, and recommendations. Will this help curb abusive and bullying behavior on the platform or will other more invasive measures be needed?
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Today in Tech History – – May 15, 2018
1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada were auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more.
1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 in Kazakhstan. It failed to reach orbit. Polyus was designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1241842
1997 – Amazon stock went public on NASDAQ.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon
2004 – Using a computer with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, Josh Findley discovered the 41st Mersenne prime, 224,036,583 – 1. Mersenne primes have a close connection to perfect numbers, which are equal to the sum of their proper divisors.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 15, 2018
Microsoft teases upcoming Surface Hub 2, Twitter will bury tweets by users for bad behavior, Google announces new storage plans under the new name Google One.
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Cordkillers 220 – SyFy Is All About The Expense (w/ Chris Cox)
The Expanse is looking for a new home, more info on the coming live-action Star Wars show, and Rick and Morty a hundred years dot com, Morty. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Chris Cox.
DTNS 3282 – Tales from the Encrypt
Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME, Tesla engineers reveal they considered adding driver attentiveness when developing the autopilot feature, Uber riders can now rate their ride mid-trip and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over defective keyboards.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
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Today in Tech History – – May 14, 2018
1973 – The United States launched Skylab, the country’s first space station as part of the Apollo space program.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/this-week-in-nasa-history-skylab-launches-may-14-1973
1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/info
1992 – Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Intel, announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-14/business/fi-3052_1_texas-instruments
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The Other Way
Daily Tech Headlines – May 14, 2018
Researcher says PGP and S/MME encryption tools are vulnerable to email hacks ,TiVo gets Alexa integration, Uber will let users rate drivers mid-ride.
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Today in Tech History – – May 13, 2018
1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/AIEE_History_1884-1963
1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air, making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
http://www.wdrcobg.com/history30s.html
1958 – The trademark “Velcro” was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.
https://trademarks.justia.com/720/29/velcro-72029769.html
1976 – Atari released the video game “Breakout,” making the paddle controller useful for something besides “Pong.
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