How retirement is changing, movement of people in history, mutability of history, argument vs. debate.
East Meets West 364 – On Retirement
How retirement is changing, movement of people in history, mutability of history, argument vs. debate.
DTNS LABS INTERVIEW – Can Amazon Replace UPS?
James Thatcher from Tech in Trade helps us understand the challenges Amazon would have if they wanted to become UPS, FedEx and others.
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Today in Tech History – February 18, 2018
1838 – In the small town of Chirlitz of the Austrian Empire Ernst Mach was born. His work in aerodynamics and supersonic speeds, led to the unit of measurement that bears his name. He would die one day after his birthday in 1916.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ernst-mach/
1908 -Dr Lee de Forest received a patent for “Space Telegraphy” which described a three-element vacuum tube later called the triode, which could amplify feeble electric currents, and proved especially useful for radio reception. Sorry it was not about Moon telegrams.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=6i1vAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1977 – The Enterprise space shuttle orbiter prototype made the first of five “captive-inactive” flight tests, testing structural integrity and performance handling, while attached to the top of a 747 jumbo jet.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/multimedia/gallery/enterprise/12-04-20.html
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Today in Tech History – February 17, 2018
1965 – The Ranger 8 probe launched on its mission to photograph the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. The photos paved the way to select the area as the site of the first manned Moon landing.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-010A
1996 – World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue in game 6 winning the match 4-2. He would lose the next match a year later.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kasparov-defeats-chess-playing-computer
2000 – Microsoft released Windows 2000, the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and the final Windows release to display the “Windows NT” designation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0
http://news.microsoft.com/2000/02/17/windows-2000-now-broadly-available/
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#317 – Crew Goals
Hey the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us! Also Firefly is coming back as books. And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Plus StoryBundle has an awesome set of books called Black Narratives! And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Oh and the Locus Awards are open for voting. That one… you can’t vote for us. But you can vote for us in the Hugos.
Daily Tech Headlines – February 16, 2018
Google removes “view image” button from search, Intel helps with a more practical quantum computer chip, and an Australian cyborg researcher loses the use of his embedded transit pass.
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Today in Tech History – February 16, 2018
1880 – 30 engineers from eight states met in the New York editorial offices of the American Machinist to found the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
https://www.asme.org/about-asme/who-we-are/engineering-history
1968 – The first-ever 911 call was placed by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite from Haleyville City Hall to US Rep. Tom Bevill at the city’s police station.
http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/articles/feb%2016.pdf
1978 – After a particularly harsh January gave them plenty of time for programming, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess completed the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. It was the first BBS.
http://pcmuseum.tripod.com/bbs.htm
2016 – Magistrate Sheri Pym of the US District Court of Central California ordered Apple to assist the US FBI in cracking the password on an iPhone 5C. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s intent to resist the order writing, “Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.” The FBI eventually accessed the data without Apple’s assistance.
http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf
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DTNS 3221 – Apple Has Character Flaws
Twitter being streaming live local news broadcasts alongside its timeline. Will it work and will news coverage change to adapt to it? Plus reports of iOS 11’s interface crashing and researchers at MIT have developed a low powered high speed neural network chip.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:00) Intel expands bug bounty program to include Spectre-like side-channel attacks, dangles $250K | geekwire
- (01:15) Samsung’s updated Notebook 9 laptops will start at $1,200 | the verge
- (01:50) Stanford researchers develop new method for waking up small electronic devices | stanford
- (02:15) FCC Boss Ajit Pai’s Own Agency Is Investigating Him For Potential Corruption | motherboard
- More Top Stories
- (02:40) Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages | the verge
- (04:50) HomePod leaves white ring stains on wood furniture, and Apple says it’s ‘not unusual’ | mercury news
- (07:40) Facebook’s two-factor authentication system auto-posts replies on your profile | the verge
- (09:40) Neural networks everywhere | mit news
- (13:05) Paytm Mall Takes Cues From Alibaba in Indian New Retail Experiment | bloomberg
- Discussion Story: (16:15)
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- (24:35) Ross – LastPass Authenticator
- Ross – Chrome ad-blocking
- (24:35) Ross – LastPass Authenticator
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Daily Tech Headlines – February 15, 2018
New Samsung Notebook 9s, Intel opens up its bounty program, super low power sensor communication.
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