Bob Iger has us all excited with stuff he said this week. Hey we found Vulcan! There is finally a new leader for Clan Buchanan. Aaron Paul joins Westworld and a whole lot more!
Today in Tech History – – September 25, 2018
1956 – The first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1 was inaugurated, replacing slow telegraph and unreliable radio systems.
2001 – Apple announced the release of Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first major upgrade to OS X.
2012 – Blizzard launched its 4th World of Warcraft expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/mists-of-pandaria-releases-september-25/
2013 – Amazon announced the Kindle HDX tablets with a service called “Mayday” that promised to let users speak with a real person by video over the Internet within 15 seconds of tapping a button.
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DTNS 3375 – Is That Tech in Your Teeth?
Qualcomm accuses Apple of sharing their source code, Instagram founders are leaving Facebook, and Tinder tries to empower women.
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Instagram Founders Leave Company . – DTH
Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing trade secrets, Tinder India rolls out new tool, Sundar Pachai to meet with GOP lawmakers over bias concerns.
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Cordkillers Winter Movie Draft 2018
Brian and Tom are joined by Justin Robert Young, John Teasdale, Brett Rounsaville, Kriti Kates and Nicole Lee to bid on the 2018 Winter Movie Draft. With special music by Ali Spagnola.
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Cordkillers 237 – Ritzy Kitchens (w/ Megan Morrone)
AppleTV doesn’t have any shows and they’re all bad. Also, new Roku and Amazon hardware and the Space Jam sequel. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Megan Morrone. Winter Movie Draft this week! Find the stream in your feed or play along here.
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Today in Tech History – – September 24, 2018
1979 – CompuServe began offering a consumer version of its dial-up online information service called MicroNET. The name would later be changed to CompuServe and offer public email among other online services.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/happy-30th-birthday-compuserve/24853
1993 – Broderbund Software released the game Myst, for the Macintosh computer. It became a record-setting bestseller and helped popularize CD-ROM drives.
https://www.giantbomb.com/myst/3030-3970/
1997 – Ultima Online launched, revolutionizing online gaming by supporting thousands of simultaneous players in a persistent shared world.
http://www.uo.com/article/Press-Around-Anniversary
2013 – Valve announced their new Steam OS, a free version of Linux built around the Steam video game service.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/23/4762370/steam-box-os
2014 – The shellshock vulnerability was made public. The way bash handled variables could allow malicious code to be run on computers running Linux and OS X. This meant routers, webcams and other connected devices were also vulnerable.
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-bug-as-big-as-heartbleed.html#.VCRaXildXA4
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DTNS 3374 – You Become Safer With Yubico’s Yubikey
Microsoft Ignite announcements, SiriusXM plans to buy Pandora, and first class VR.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, and Anthony Lemos.
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SiriusXm Buys Pandora – DTH
Microsoft announces new multiuser VMs and a new Surface Hub at ignite, Apple now owns Shazam finally and SiriusXM hopes to own Pandora soon.
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Today in Tech History – – September 23, 2018
1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/
1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990923.html
1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
http://archive.fortune.com/2009/01/27/news/newsmakers/hastings_netflix.fortune/index.htm
2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/History:Timelines
2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409863,00.asp
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