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1931 – Jacob Schick began marketing his second electric razor. His first hadn’t caught on because of the bulky motor. This time the more practical design became a hit.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/march-18/
1965 – The Voskhod 2 launched and on the second orbit Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left the capsule (on purpose) for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-022A
1987 – Thousands of physicists crowded a ballroom at the New York Hilton at the meeting of the American Physical Society to hear speakers talk on high-temperature superconductivity. The session started in the evening and ran until 3:15 AM earning the nickname “Woodstock of Physics.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/03/science/power-line-makes-use-of-a-miracle-of-physics.html
2015 – Sony launched its Internet TV service called PlayStation Vue in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. For $50 a month subscribers got around 50 channels plus the ability to record shows in the cloud for up to 28 days.
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1948 – William Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina. His stories are credited with launching cyberpunk literature, named after the phrase he used in the story “Burning Chrome”.
https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233297/William-Gibson
1953 – Australian researcher David Warren came up with the idea for a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. His ARL Flight Memory Unit would eventually be known as the Black Box.
1958 – The United States launched the Vanguard 1 satellite, achieving the highest altitude of any man-made vehicle to that time.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/accomplishments/rockets/vanguard-project/
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Lyft is trialling a subscription plans for high frequency users. Is this a potential model for other ride hailing services and could this be another alternative to private car ownership and public transit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Iyaz Akhtar.
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US accuses Russia of hacking power grids, Plattsburgh NY imposes moratorium on bitcoin mining, Lyft tests subscription model.
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1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/dr_goddard.html
1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online and would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/everquest/
1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/history.html
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Say so long to Web 2.0 and make way for Web 3.0. It’s new, it’s fresh, and it’s already here. So what is it? Find out and what it means for your digital life. Linus Torvalds casts a critical eye on the CTS Labs security report on security flaws on AMD’s new processors and Fortune weighs the national security merits of blocking the Broadcomm/Qualcomm merger.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Land, Roger Chang and Robert Justin Young.
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More Pratchett TV coming, and more Rothfuss books? Plus more deep discussion about an Unkindness of Ghosts, including why blurbs may lead you astray.
Google opens maps, Twitter may target Snapchat, and Linus Torvalds targets CTS’s AMD report.
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1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/BMRR.asp
1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first dot-com domain name, symbolics.com. The domain is now owned by an investment company who uses it as a marketing device. The remains of the original Symbolics company survived in altered form at symbolics-dks.com.
http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/symbolics.com
2004 – Nicolas Jacobsen posted to a forum that he had hacked into T-Mobile’s network and stolen information from major celebrities like Paris Hilton. Jacobsen was later charged with two counts of violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-7349_3-5534323.html
http://hackstory.net/Hack_de_T-Mobile
2016 – DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program defeated 18-time Go champion Lee Se-dol in the 5th match of a five-match series for a series win of four matches to one. Lee won only the fourth game. The Korea Baduk Association gave an honorary ninth-dan ranking to AlphaGo.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35810133
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