Today in Tech History – March 2, 2018

1908 – Gabriel Lippman proposed using a series of lenses at a picture’s surface instead of opaque barrier lines, allowing three dimensional pictures. He titled his presentation to the French Academy of Sciences “La Photographie Integral”.

http://www.outeraspect.com/history_lenticular.php?

1983 – CBS Records launched the first major compact disc music marketing campaign, launching 16 titles. CDs had gone on sale to the public the previous October in Japan.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8NCWWdZzPksC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=march+2+1983+CBS+records&source=bl&ots=rcYY70RzWK&sig=ojeAlsSWjAlrFU5u9J9kQlkTXv4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4yIPuhM7ZAhXGqVQKHWfUCoQQ6AEITTAD#v=onepage&q=march%202%201983%20CBS%20records&f=false

2004 – Review site Engadget launched with a post about T-Flash, a new memory card format, by founder Peter Rojas.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/02/today-is-engadgets-10th-birthday/?

2010 – The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected legislation requiring electronic communications traffic data retention for a period of 6 months as a violation of the guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence.
https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2010/03/articles/german-federal-constitutional-court-declares-implementation-of-data-retention-directive-unconstitutional/?

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DTNS 3230 – Twitter: Toxic or Tonic?

Has the mobile phone market reached full saturation? A dedicated Ghanian teacher’s efforts to teach how computers work without using a computer has won global applause, and America’s mobile wireless companies join forces to create a new multi-factor authentication standard.

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Daily Tech Headlines -March 1, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber launches Uber Health, Nintendo is not updating Switch hardware, Best Buy shuttering mobile stores.

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Today in Tech History – March 1, 2018

1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered images of uranium rocks had appeared on a photographic plate without exposure to the sun. He had discovered natural radiation.

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

1995 – A little over a year after starting the website in January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo incorporated Yahoo!
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_march.php?

2006 – English-language Wikipedia reached its one millionth article, “Jordanhill railway station.”
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article?

2016 – Astronauts Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly landed safely in Kazakhstan after spending a record 340 days aboard the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronaut-scott-kelly-returns-safely-to-earth-after-one-year-mission?

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DTNS 3229 – Minority Report in New Orleans

Is big data based predictive policing the key to better law enforcement or is it a bandage for more serious issues? Plus Fitbit teases a new fitness tracker watch and researchers at MIT have come up with a faster and safer way to build wood furniture.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 28, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Fitbit watch for women on the horizon, Ford is launching autonomous car feet in Miami, New Orleans secret partnership with Palantir revealed.

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Today in Tech History – February 28, 2018

1947 – The first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation showed procedures to observers in classrooms at Johns Hopkins University.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19470301&id=DJ4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q2gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2503,4683685?

1954 – The Westinghouse H840CK15 went on sale in the New York area. It is generally agreed to be the first production television receiver using NTSC color offered to the public. Only 30 sets were sold at $1,295 a pop.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/westinghouse_ad.html?
Westinghouse display ad, New York Times, Feb. 28, 1954, p. 57

1959 – Discoverer 1 was launched on a Thor-Agena A rocket and became the first man-made object ever put into a polar orbit.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1959-002A?

2017 – A typo in a command to take some servers offline for maintenance caused an outage in Amazon’s S3 service that took millions of websites offline.

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/?

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DTNS 3228 – In Vero Veritas?

Vero is currently the hottest app on the App Store. The latest platform social networking platform can Vero successfully break into a market dominated by FB, Instagram and Twitter? Plus Apple is launching medical clinics to provide employees with healthcare and Facebook is using Messenger to de-radicalize extremists.

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