It’s Spoilerin’ Time 235 – The Good Place (101-205), Better Call Saul (404-405), Deadwood (311)

Cordkillers/ Shows / September 12th, 2018

We examine the trolley problem and The Good Place’s “The Trolley Problem.” Plus, we put Mike’s interviews through the ringer from Better Call Saul and the penultimate Deadwood!

00:41 – Summer Movie Draft update

02:24 – The Good Place (101-205)

17:25 – Better Call Saul (404-405)

31:51 – Deadwood (311)

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EU Approves Link Tax and Upload Filter – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 12th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The European Union takes the next step to passing a new Copyright Directive, Plex pulls the plug on Plex Cloud and Apple reveals new smartphone names.

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CurrentGeek 185: Stay awhile, and render!

Current Geek/ Shows / September 11th, 2018
E! gets the people’s choice awards! Goats prefer it if you smile. A kangaroo was where it is not usually. Diablo show coming to Netflix? 100 years old and still mathematically correct. ForeCast, Best Things and your emails!

Today in Tech History – – September 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 11th, 2018

1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

http://eyesofageneration.com/cameras-page/ge-cameras/

1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/isee3.html

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/starr.report/

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

Today in Tech History – – September 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 11th, 2018

1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

http://eyesofageneration.com/cameras-page/ge-cameras/

1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/isee3.html

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/starr.report/

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

DTNS 3365 – Somewhere Beyond the Sea Roomba

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

India’s Aadhaar ID system’s databased has been compromised via a software patch. Tinder makes its “Top Picks” curated match service available worldwide. The Ocean Cleanup Project started towing System 001 to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” to begin field trials of the apparatus and evaluate its effectiveness at cleaning plastic garbage from the ocean.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Arizona Probes Google Over Location Tracking – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple will stream 9/12 event on Twitter, India’s Aadhaar database compromised by software patch, Impossible Aerospace launches US-1 drone.

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Cordkillers 235 – Amazon as in Beer (w/ Nicole Lee)

Cordkillers/ Shows / September 11th, 2018

Mr. Robot to end, Dr. Who coming soon, and Spotify adds Showtime for students. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Nicole Lee.

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Today in Tech History – – September 10, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 10th, 2018

1990 – Peter Deutsch posted to comp.archives about the Internet Archive Server called “Archie” that he, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan had put together. It is often considered the Internet’s first search engine.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.archives/LWVA50W8BKk/wyRbF_lDc6cJ

1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.unix.misc/-CGG1XLkjfk

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, powered up on its quest to discover the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1098.html

2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/10Apple-Introduces-iPhone-5c-The-Most-Colorful-iPhone-Yet.html

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DTNS 3364 – Gemini: The Same Side of Two Coins

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 10th, 2018

We checkout the latest developments in the world of cryptocurrency as New York approves the Winklesvoss backed Gemini Trust and Paxo Trust stablecoins and we raise the question about the long term stability of cryptocurrency.

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

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