Daily Tech Headlines – April 3, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 3rd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Spotify goes public on the NYSE, Mozilla working on Firefox Reality browser, Grindr pulls sharing of HIV status with 3rd party apps after backlash.

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TODAY IN TECH HISTORY – April 3, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 3rd, 2018

1966 – Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to enter lunar orbit. It completed its first orbit in two hours 58 minutes.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-027A/

1973 – Martin Cooper, general manager of Motorola’s Communications Systems Division made the first handheld portable phone call from a New York City street to Joel S. Engel at rival Bell Labs. Presumably he gloated at least a little.

http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm

1981 – Adam Osborne unveiled the Osborne 1 at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. It cost $1,795 at retail.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383022,00.asp/

2000 – US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled Microsoft violated the nation’s antitrust laws by using its monopoly position in personal computer operating systems to stifle competition.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/04/03/technology/microsoft_report//

2010 – The first Apple iPad went on sale in the US, starting at $499.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05iPad-Available-in-US-on-April-3.html/

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DTNS 3532a – Slowing Down Self-Driving

Daily Tech News Show / April 2nd, 2018

Are the timelines for autonomous car rollouts too optimistic? What are the real-world impediments to their implementation and what would be a more realistic time-frame for their deployment?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Rob Reid.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 2, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 2nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook defends itself, Cloudflare starts its own privacy-oriented DNS and ESPN+ launches April12.

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Today in Tech History – April 2, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 2nd, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1973 – Lexis launched Computerized Legal Searching. It was limited to searching the full text of cases in Ohio and New York.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/04/0402lexis-nexis-launches/

1978 – The patent expired on Swiss inventor George de Mestral’s invention of a hook and loop fastener he called Velcro. Soon children everywhere no longer had to learn to tie shoes quite so early in life.

http://famousdaily.com/history/velcro-released-in-the-marketplace.html/

1980 – Microsoft Corporation announced its first hardware product the Z80 SoftCard for Apple. It was a microprocessor on a printed circuit board that plugged into the Apple II and sold for $349.00.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/2

2014 – Amazon announced Fire TV, it’s set-top TV box to deliver streaming TV shows and video games. It also included voice commands spoken into a Bluetooth remote control.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/02/amazon-announces-android-powered-streaming-stick/

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DTNS Q1 2018 Hangout

Daily Tech News Show / April 1st, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoTom, Sarah and Roger chat with their Analysts and Advisors about the state of DTNS.

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Today in Tech History – April 1, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 1st, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1976 – Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne decided to change their garage project into a partnership and Ron Wayne typed up the papers. Wayne would leave the partnership after 11 days and Apple Comupter would be incorporated the following January.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228937/data-center/data-center-wozniak-questions-long-accepted-date-of-day-one-at-apple.html/

2004 – In one of the best April Fool’s jokes ever, Google launched a real product. Weren’t expecting that, were you Internet? Gmail launched in invite-only mode, making a Gmail account temporarily prestigious in the geek world.

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html

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Today in Tech History – March 31, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 31st, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1939 – Harvard and IBM signed an agreement to build the Mark I, also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC). It weighed 5 tons and read data from paper tape and punch cards.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=march+31+1939++harvard+ibm&source=bl&ots=-yWIWk1OZc&sig=I7Ow7MHeYBBWCLBuMtzM5x_T1qo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P9glU7agN8byoAS0-oGwAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=march%2031%201939%20%20harvard%20ibm&f=false/

1993 – Richard Depew accidentally posted 200 identical messages to news.admin.policy while testing some auto-moderation software. It became the first USENET postings to be referred to as spam.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html

1998 – Netscape posted about 8 megabytes of source code for its browser Netscape Communicator 5.0. The code was posted to Mozilla.org, a site Netscape set up for source code-related information.

https://www.cnet.com/news/netscape-sets-source-code-free/

1998 – After three years of development and much wrangling with the Warcraft engine it was originally built on, Blizzard released the iconic game Starcraft.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc/

2013 – IBM shut down the Roadrunner supercomputer, the first computer to run at more than one petaflop.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57577179-92/former-supercomputer-king-roadrunner-to-shut-down-today/

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DTNS LABS – Scott’s Raspberry Pi

Daily Tech News Show / March 30th, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoWe read your suggestions for what Scott should do with his Raspberry Pi. Great ideas for everyone in here.

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DTNS 3251 – Yay, Space!

Daily Tech News Show / March 30th, 2018

It’s our end of month DTNS round table. This month we examine where space exploration and the tech industry intersect, why privatization of space is good or bad, and how the internet is empowering citizen astronomers.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Rob DeMilo, Ariel Waldman and Bobak Ferdowsi.

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