Daily Tech Headlines – February 5, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 5th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel’s AR glasses, Broadcom still after Qualcomm, cell phone radiation still not proved dangerous.

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Today in Tech History – February 5, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 5th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1850 – The first US patent for push-key operation of a calculating machine was issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, NY.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7074

1944 – At Bletchley Park in Great Britain, the Colossus Mk I attacked its first Lorenz-encrypted message. Enigma had been cracked but Lorenz was a tougher cipher used in communications between Hitler and his generals in World War II.

http://www.zdnet.com/colossus-celebrates-70th-anniversary-at-national-museum-of-computing-7000026002/

1974 – The US space probe Mariner 10 returned the first close-up images of Venus and became the first spacecraft to use a gravity assist from one planet to help it reach another.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-085A

1999 – Victoria’s Secret’s online fashion show became the first major webcast, attracting an estimated 1.5 million viewers worldwide. Proving even back then, the Internet is for shopping.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/05/vicweb.idg/

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Today in Tech History – February 4, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 4th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1890 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the first quadruplex telegraph, which could send two messages simultaneously in each direction. One message consisted of an electric signal of varying strength, while the second was a signal of varying polarity.

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Quadruplex_Telegraph
http://www.google.com/patents?id=SV9BAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1998 – Noël Godin, a Belgian who made a practice of pie-ing rich and famous people struck a pie against the face of Bill Gates. Gates did not press charges.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-207832.html

2004 – Mark Zuckerberg and a few other guys at Harvard launched TheFacebook so Harvard students can look up and hook up with each other. They would eventually expand the service to the world. And drop the “the”.

https://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=info

2014 – Microsoft named 22-year employee Satya Nadella its new CEO replacing Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates stepped down as Chairman of the Board at the same time and was replaced by John Thompson.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04newspr.aspx

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Today in Tech History – February 3, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1879 – Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb to 700 people at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5197568&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5176125%2F5197544%2F05197568.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5197568

1966 – The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed safely on the moon in the Ocean of Storms. It was the first lunar soft landing and first transmission of photographic data from the Moon to Earth.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-006A

2011 – The Number Resource Organization announced that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses was fully depleted. The IANA allocated the last of the blocks equally between the five Regional Internet Registries.

http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted

2014 – Facebook launched its ‘Paper’ app for iOS in the US. Paper provided a more magazine like format for viewing Facebook content.

http://recode.net/2014/01/30/meet-paper-facebooks-answer-to-browsing-and-creating-mobile-media/

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DTNS 3212a – Don’t Put Mouth On My Words

Daily Tech News Show / February 2nd, 2018

We explore the link between AI generated fake porn videos and the future of news and facts. Plus Kaz Hirai steps down as CEO of Sony and CEO Susan Wojcicki explains what YouTube wants.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Nicole Lee.

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Daily Tech Headlines – 2/2/2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 2nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple does OK on slowing iPhone sales, Amazon knocks it out of the park and Alphabet has mixed results.

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Today in Tech History – February 2, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1046 – English monks recorded “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” Their analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657

1931 – Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.
http://www.astronautix.com/s/schmiedl.html

1935 – Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.

http://www.wired.com/2012/02/0202polygraph-leads-conviction/

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DTNS 3211 – Alphabet Has Problems with Numbers

Daily Tech News Show / February 1st, 2018

Google and 3M have joined the Universal Stylus Initiative. Will this herald a new age of stylus interchangeability between hardware vendors? Plus eBay will end use of PayPal as a back-end payment system in 2020 and YouTube TV is now available on select Roku devices.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 1st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Mario Kart Tour in development, YouTube TV comes to Roku, Elon Musk sells out flamethrowers.

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#316 – Why’d Ya Do It, Ernie?

Shows/ Sword and Laser / February 1st, 2018

We share our memories and thoughts on the passing of Ursula K. Leguin. We also talk about how silly it is to think anybody but George R. R. Martin truly knows the release date for Winds of Winter, and discover the true villain of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.