Xiaomi’s High-end $300 Phone – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 22nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Xiaomi making money and lowering prices, Facebook and twitter ban accounts they say originate in Iran and Russia, Verizon caught throttling fire department during California fires.

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CurrentGeek 182: Godfather Part II

Current Geek/ Shows / August 21st, 2018

Welcome to the Current Geek Film Festival, a special monthly look at the greatest movies of all time from a geeky perspective. I’m Scott Johnson and he’s Tom Merritt

Our monthly look at the best films ever continues, this time with The Godfather Part II

DTNS 3351 – Agree to Disagree on a Degree’s Pedigree

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 21st, 2018

Top tech companies are looking to hire experience over formal education, Netflix wants to escape the Apple’s cut on subscriptions, and Microsoft cracks down on Russian bots.

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

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Microsoft Gains Control of Russian-based Phishing Sites – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 21st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Tinder launches Tnder U for college students, Winklevoss twins create digital currency association, Facebook gives users reputation scores.

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Cordkillers 233 – Giving Up on Being a Completionist

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 21st, 2018

Amazon theaters, Verizon 5G rollout, and a new Star Wars trailer. All this and more on Cordkillers!

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Today in Tech History – – August 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 20th, 2018

1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK, began operating in Michigan. Now, WWJ, it is owned by CBS.

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

1930 – W2XCR began broadcasting at 2.1-2.2 mHz from Jersey City, New Jersey, with the first demonstration of telecasts meant for the home. A half-hour program, hosted by the cartoonist Harry Hirschfeld, was viewed on screens placed in a store in the Hotel Ansonia, the Hearst building, and a home at 98 Riverside Drive.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xcr.html

1970 – John Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. He would grow up to co-found id software and bring the world Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Carmack-John.html#b

2017 – Microsoft opened preoders for the XBox One X, a console which supported 4K video games.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/20/16160650/microsoft-xbox-one-x-project-scorpio-edition-preorders

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DTNS 3350 – The Giphy That Keeps on Giving

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 20th, 2018

Nvidia announces new consumer video cards based on its Turing GPU architecture, Financial Times drafting rules to penalize social media platforms for not removing terrorist content within an hour of notification, and Bittorrent’s creator criticizes cryptocurrency.

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

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Minecraft: Education Edition Hits iPad – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 20th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple removes thousands of gambling apps from China store, Fitbit announces the Charge 3, Skype end-to-end encryption is live.

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Today in Tech History – – August 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 19th, 2018

1839 – At a crowded meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Louis Daguerre demonstrated the process of making photos called daguerreotypes.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v144/n3642/abs/144341b0.html

1906 – Philo Farnsworth was born on Indian Creek in Beaver County, Utah. He would grow up to inspire the beloved professor character on Futurama. He also gets credit for inventing the first completely electronic television.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm

1934 – Gordon Bell was born in Kirksville, Missouri. He would grow up to help build PDP computers and oversee the development of DEC’s VAX series.

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bell_gordon.htm

2003 – Dave Winer posted an experiment with RSS enclosures. It allowed subscribers with the right aggregator to have an MP3 of an interview Chris Lydon did delivered with no click-wait. This would lead to Christopher Lydon becoming the first podcaster before it was called podcasting.

http://scripting.com/2003/08.html#When:9:49:05PM

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Today in Tech History – – August 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 18th, 2018

1937 – The first Frequency Modulation or FM radio permit was granted to W1XOJ, in Paxton, Massachusetts. It went on the air with scheduled programs in May 1939 and operated with the highest output power (50 kilowatts) granted prior to World War II.

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

1947 – Eight years after William Hewlett and David Packard founded it, Hewlett-Packard was officially incorporated.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KMSH_wzyDaEC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=august+18+1947+hewlett+packard+incorporated&source=bl&ots=YfkA9g_uAY&sig=mDYAGbyTlXh-xMlVMVbqAEwJlCk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gckHUoTJBI7OyAHKl4C4Aw&ved=0CHsQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=august%2018%201947%20hewlett%20packard%20incorporated&f=false

2005 – The largest and most widespread power outage in history happened on the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

https://www.upi.com/Millions-affected-in-Indonesia-blackout/37061124395633/

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