Today in Tech History – – April 26, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 26th, 2018

1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E3DA1138E033A25755C2A9629C94659FD7CF

1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.

http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/

1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Chernobyl-Accident/#.Ud7xfz54Zvg

1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.

https://books.google.com/books?id=DnjwTdlpsekC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11&dq=replaytv+april+1999&source=bl&ots=Y2SJbfViMA&sig=5ZFQ5SAFV5C5tUPnU7MVas8Vmb0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii5dHQidrLAhVU3GMKHVavDRQQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=replaytv%20april%201999&f=false

2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/landfill-excavation-unearths-years-of-crushed-atari-treasure/

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 26, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 26th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung hints at lagging iPhone X sales, IBM launches jewelry blockchain, Tesla loses famed chip architect.

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#322 – Analysis Paralysis

Shows/ Sword and Laser / April 25th, 2018

Have you ever walked into a book store and just froze? Us too. We’ll talk you through it. Plus we announced the May book pick and Tanith Lee fans will be happy! Because it’s by Tanith Lee! Also the wrap-up for We Are Legion (We are Bob).

DTNS 3269 – MoviePass: Pass… or Play?

Daily Tech News Show / April 25th, 2018

Is MoviePass the future of movie theater as it backers allege or is it destined to be another casualty of price sensitive consumers? Plus Google rolls out new changes to the venerable Gmail app and a Federal Appeals court rules that a man who created Windows rescue CDs to ship alongside refurbished PCs can go to jail.

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Today in Tech History – – April 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 25th, 2018

1944 – Lt. Carter Harman of the 1st Air Commando Group rescued four men from the jungle in Burma, flying a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. It was the first combat rescue by helicopters in the US Army Air Forces.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130312201246/http://www.pacaf.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090422-085.pdf

1953 – Watson and Crick presented their findings on the double helical structure of DNA in the publication Nature. They noted that the structure “suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” 50 Years later the Human Genome Project had concluded sequencing the genome and published a follow-on in Nature on their vision for genetic research.

http://www.sns.ias.edu/~tlusty/courses/landmark/WatsonCrick1953.pdf

1961 – Robert Noyce received the US patent for the silicon-based integrated circuit. He went on to found the Intel Corporation with Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Noyce fought a long patent rights battle with Jack Kilby who invented a germanium based integrated circuit.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/icinv.html

2014 – Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia’s handset business. Nokia retained its mapping, research and network infrastructure business. Microsoft gained most of the mobile phone parts of the company.

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-closes-nokia-deal-pays-more-than-expected/#ftag=CAD590a51e

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Gmail redesign, AI IDs heart attacks – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / April 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Gmail gets a redesign, Windows 10 might get lean and Ai helps identify heart attacks.

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DTNS 3268 – Amazon’s Junk in Your Trunk

Daily Tech News Show / April 24th, 2018

Amazon wants you to give their delivery couriers access to your GM or Volvo car’s trunk. Is this typical of the company’s out of the box thinking or is this one drop off delivery method that’s that won’t take off?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 24, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 24th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Spotify updates free tier app, Nintendo Switch consoles contain possibly unpatchable vulnerability, Amazon rolls out trunk service to Prime members.

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Today in Tech History – – April 24, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 24th, 2018

1970 – The Chang Zheng-1 rocket launched, carrying the first Chinese satellite, the Dong Fang Hong-1.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/06/china-launch-shi-jian-12-satellite-research-mission/

1981 – At a meeting called “Apple II Forever”, Apple introduced the portable Apple IIc. The machine came with 128 kilobytes of RAM and a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive.

http://apple2history.org/history/ah08/

1990 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launched with the Hubble Space Telescope on board. The following day, Hubble was released into space.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/the_story_2.html

2015 – The Apple Watch started shipping. It could be bought in some high-end fashion stores but Apple Stores had none in stock. Only online orders could be taken through Apple.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/03/09Apple-Watch-Available-in-Nine-Countries-on-April-24.html

2017 – Peggy Whitson broke the record for most cumulative time in space by a US astronaut, passing Jeff Williams record of 534 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes.

https://gizmodo.com/astronaut-peggy-whitson-just-smashed-another-record-1794590766

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