1925 – John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system. It delivered a grayscale 30-line vertically scanned image, at five frames per second. After a ventriloquist’s dummy appeared on screen, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton became the first person televised in full tonal range.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/tvstory2
1955 – ENIAC was shut down for the last time. After 11 years running at 5,000 operations a second and taking up 1,000 square feet of floor space, it had earned its retirement.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/October/2/
1996 – US President Bill Clinton signed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act requiring the US government to make electronic documents available online.
http://www.justice.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_XVII_4/page2.htm
2015 – Google officially reorganized, merging with a new parent company called Alphabet. Subsidiaries included Google, Google Fiber, Calico and Life Sciences, Google Ventures and Google Capital, Nest, and Google X. Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google while Larry Page became CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin became President of Alphabet.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000119312515336577/0001193125-15-336577-index.htm
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Google announces a partnership with UbiSoft to play a streamed version of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey over the browser, the Seattle PD announces a new program to combat the practice of Swatting, and Amazon raises the minimum wage of all its US employees. 
Amazon raises US minimum wage for employees, Opera launches “Opera Touch” browser on iOS, Tencent Music files US IPO.
We talk with Ashley V. Robinson about her and her husband Jason’s new comic book Science! why they chose to Kickstart it and some of the tech they use to create.