DTNS 3250 – Cloudy with a Chance of Nuts & Bolts

Windows chief Terry Myerson leaves Microsoft after 21 years, President Trump accuses Amazon of not paying taxes, and Apple allows users to download copies of user data the company keeps in anticipation of GDPR.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 29, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft shakes up executive team, Facebook to shut down Partner Categories over data concerns, Bumble sues Match.

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TODAY IN TECH HISTORY – March 29, 2018

1941 – 80% of US AM radio frequencies were reassigned to new channels as part of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement.

http://archive.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/03/0329radio-stations-shuffle-frequencies

1945 – German soldiers blew the launch tracks for the V-1 rocket site near Letelle, Netherlands, ending the rocket attacks.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/v-1-buzz-bomb-london-1945/

1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first space probe to cross the orbit of Mercury about 704 km from the surface.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-085A

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DTNS 3249 – Cloudy with a chance of SaaS

A note by Morgan Stanley suggests Microsoft might be on its way to becoming the 1st trillion dollar company. Has the company’s refocus towards Software-as-a-Service the key reason for that and how long can the company rely on it to maintain its current trajectory? Plus FB attempts to simplify user accessibility to privacy settings and Saudi Arabia and Softbank are planning the world’s largest solar farm.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Chris Ashley.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 213 – Counterpart (109), Deadwood (201)

Smelly dogs, Deadwood, and Tom finally watched Atlanta! Plus, our first Movie Draft update for the season.

00:39 – The Summer Movie Draft happened! Watch the draft as it happened over at Night Attack’s feed ( http://nightattack.tv/episode/213 ). Visit http://draft.diamondclub.tv for up-to-the-minute stats.
06:28 – Atlanta season 1 look-back
09:47 – Isle of Dogs
20:01 – Deadwood (202)

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 28, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook simplifies privacy settings but doesn’t see a huge drop from people deleting Facebook. Also Saudi Arabia planning the world’s biggest solar farm.

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TODAY IN TECH HISTORY – March 28, 2018

1905 – Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania received a patent for the “Art of Transmitting Intelligence.” It was the forerunner of the modern fax.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=gUdlAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false/

1935 – Robert Goddard launched the first rocket equipped with gyroscopic controls near Roswell, New Mexico. The rocket reached an altitude of 4,800 feet and flew 13,000 feet at a speed of 550 mph.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/thismonth/this_month_march10.html

1979- A combination of equipment malfunction and human error caused a partial reactor meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. While no injuries or deaths have been attributed to the accident, it changed US nuclear attitudes significantly.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html/

2016 – The first Oculus Rift VR headsets for consumers began being delivered. Co-founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first one the weekend before to Ross Martin in Alaska who had been the first to pre-order.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11317024/oculus-rift-first-delivered-palmer-luckey/

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DTNS 3248 – A Walled Garden for Every School

Apple has announced a new iPad with “pencil” support, but compared with recent offerings from Google is it too little too late? Plus the governor of Arizona puts a halt on autonomous car tests in the state and Foxxconn is buying Belkin for $866 million dollars.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan.

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