Daily Tech Headlines – Monday, February 26, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500New phones from Sony and Samsung at Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm and Broadcom start warming up to each other and Vivo has a cool concept phone.

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Today in Tech History – February 26, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1896 – Hoping to test the sun’s ability to create X-rays, Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. It was cloudy.

http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-henri-becquerel-discovers-radioactivity-february-26-1896

1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_febru_11.php

1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/ionosondes/history/radar.html

2015 – The US FCC voted 3-2 to implement new Open Internet Rules and classify Internet Service Providers as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/fcc-votes-for-net-neutrality-a-ban-on-paid-fast-lanes-and-title-ii/

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Today in Tech History – February 25, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1837 – The US Patent Office approved Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=NM0-AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false/

1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

http://nationalradioclub.org/articles/1stfacts.txt

1930 – A US patent for a photographing apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It was the first bank check photographing device.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=6q9VAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Today in Tech History – February 24, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1949 – A modified German V-2 ballistic missile launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of 244 miles, and putting it well above the Kármán line. It was the first US rocket to reach “outer space.”

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch1-4.htm

1955 – A boy was born to University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. He was given up for adoption and taken in by a machinist and his wife in Mountain View, California. They named him Steve Jobs.

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805/

2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its final mission.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/main/index.html

2014 – Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 with a heart rate sensor and water and dust proofing.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441668/samsung-galaxy-s5-announcement-launch/

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DTNS 3226 – Roundtable: Big Data is Watching You

It’s our end of February roundtable episode. We examine how big data currently influences our lives and what control if any we have over it. Debate if the explosion of media choices and platforms has had a negative impact on content discovery and consumption. And how did Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel get his big fat payout?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Hawn, Jeff Canatta and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – Friday, February 23, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google launches its Augmented Reality system out of beta, researchers develop a way to charge cell phones with lasers, and Microsoft and Xiaomi team up on AI.

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Today in Tech History – February 23, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1893 – Germany’s Imperial Patent Office granted Rudolph Diesel Patent No. 67207 for “a new efficient thermal engine”. We just call it, the Diesel engine.
http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/1295/February-23-1893-Rudolph-Diesel-s-Patent/

1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge signed Public Law no. 632 establishing the Federal Radio Commission which was later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission.
http://www.oswego.edu/~messere/FRCpage.html/

1927 – German physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, describing the uncertainty principle for the first time. He submitted a paper on the principle for publication the following March.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200802/physicshistory.cfm/

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DTNS 3225 – Nuthin’ but a 5G Thang

Intel has announced 5G connected PCs next year promising an always connected machine. But is this necessarily a good thing? Plus the FCC has published its new rules on Net Neutrality and Airbnb Plus has launched offering plusher accommodations to better compete with hotels.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 22, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple’s AirPods may get hands-free Siri update, Intel to announce 5G Windows PCs, Lighthouse AI now selling its security camera.

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Today in Tech History – February 22, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany. Hertz made key discoveries in optics but also transmitted and received electromagnetic waves. His name has become used for the common unit of frequency, Hz.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/hertz.html/

1995 – Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett completed the first hot air balloon flight over the Pacific Ocean. At 9600 km it was also the longest balloon flight.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/us/balloonist-is-first-to-cross-pacific-alone.html?src=pm/

1995 – US President Clinton signed an Executive Order directing the declassification of intelligence imagery acquired by the CORONA, ARGON and LANYARD US photo-reconnaissance satellites. More than 860,000 images of the Earth’s surface, collected between 1960 and 1972 were made public.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=51020/

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