TODAY IN TECH HISTORY – March 25, 2018

1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8285977/mechanical-television/

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/history/index.html

1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/

2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.

http://time.com/37842/facebook-oculus-rift//

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Today in Tech History – March 25, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8285977/mechanical-television/

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/history/index.html

1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/

2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.

http://time.com/37842/facebook-oculus-rift/

Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.

DTNS LABS – Interviews – Mike Johnson, Lyft

DTNS Labs LogoWe talk with Mike Johnson, CISO at Lyft and Davis Spark from Spark media Solutions about the frustrating relationship between CISOs and security vendors.

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Today in Tech History – March 24, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1802 – Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane of Camborne Parish in the County of Cornwall, enrolled a patent for a steam engine that could power a full-sized road locomotive. He had previously demonstrated it by driving up a hill in a car he called the “Puffing Devil”.

http://books.google.com/books?id=P6L2tXEwVDEC&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=Richard+Trevithick+patent+issued+1802&source=bl&ots=vqxN-pfHQ-&sig=6gkCDPjiQju1QURj-9bar4FMjPk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rw9VT-mNNqb-iQKf8_m0Bg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Trevithick%20patent%20issued%201802&f=false/

1896 – A. S. Popov made the first radio transmission in human history. Popov is said to have transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building to another on the campus of St. Petersburg University, though the assertion was not published until years later because of the need for military secrecy.

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Aleksandr_Popov

2001 – Apple released its new operating system Mac OS X, code named Cheetah, with a retail price of $130.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend.html

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DTNS 3246 – Go VPN or go Home

Should you trust Jigsaw’s Outline VPN? It sure is easy. Plus making water from desert air and why South Korea is shutting off its employees computers.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Len Peralta and Shannon Morse.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 23, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Craigslist removes its personals section, Dropbox IPOs and researchers extract water from the air in a desert.

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Today in Tech History – March 23, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1857 – The first department store elevator for passengers was installed at E.V. Haughwout & Co. in New York City. This was a significant development towards the building of skyscrapers.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/03/0323otis-elevator-first/

1882 – Amalie “Emmy” Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany. Albert Einstein called her a mathematical genius. She broke ground in theories of rings, fields and algebra and developed Noether’s theorem which explained the fundamental connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm/

1996 – The US space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir for the third time, and for the first time dropped off a US astronaut. Shannon Lucid began her record-breaking stay on the space station.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-mir-realization-program-goal/

2001 – The final commands to light the engines of the Progress supply ship were sent to the Russian Mir space station, which then broke up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/mir/2001.stm

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DTNS 3245 – Too Big to Be Startups

Revelations of Facebook’s role in Cambridge Analytica’s data mining and analysis has raised new questions about the need to regulate large tech companies but also the need for more ethical decision making in management. Plus the Trump administration levies new tariffs on China’s tech exports what will this mean for consumers and Best Buy will stop selling Huawei phones.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Annie Gaus.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 22, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Google Assistant can now handle Google Pay commands, GoPro licenses its tech to new hardware.

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