Today in Tech History – – August 2, 2018

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

1870 – The world’s first underground tube railway, (the Met had been the first underground non-tube railway) Tower Subway, opened in London, running from Lower Thames street to Vine Street. It closed after 4 months of operation.

http://books.google.com/books?id=UgcHBtYPYy0C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false

1880 – Parliament officially adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the official time of Great Britain.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/gmt.htm

1902 – Mina Spiegel Rees was born in Ohio and became one of the earliest female computer pioneers. She ran the Office of Naval Research, where she organized work on early computers like the Harvard Mark I.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Rees.html

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DTNS 3338 – Google Glass grew up and got a job

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 2nd, 2018

What is the state of Augmented Reality market and where will it be down the road? Plus Twitter users can no longer cross post to Facebook automatically and a hearing AI that will help prevent rollercoaster failures.

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

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Apple Cuts Off App Affiliate Program – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 2nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple becomes first trillion dollar public company, Cisco buys Duo Security, DARPA doubles down on chip design.

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Today in Tech History – – August 1, 2018

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

1873 – Andrew Smith Hallidie took his San Francisco cable car for its first test run. The tracks ran from Clay and Kearny Streets for 2800 feet to a hill 307 feet above.

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

1967 – The US Navy recalled Captain Grace Murray Hopper to active duty to continue to COBOL and other projects.

http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=3556

1981 – MTV began broadcasting in the United States, playing The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” and changing how we view music forever.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/xavierstagecoach/mtv-is-30-what-are-the-first-5-videos-they-played-3upv

2013 – Motorola announced the Moto X Android phone with multiple customization options. It was the first phone designed entirely after Google bought Motorola.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4578890/this-is-the-moto-x

2014 – Apple officially acquired Beats Electronics making Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Apple employees.

http://recode.net/2014/08/01/apples-3-billion-beats-purchase-now-apparently-a-done-deal/

2016 – Japan’s NHK began the first regular TV satellite broadcasts in 8K resolution from 10 AM to 5 PM. Viewing stations around Japan were set up to view the broadcasts as no 8K TVs were on the market.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/2/12349954/8k-broadcasts-start-japan-nhk

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DTNS 3337 – MoviePassed?

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 1st, 2018

MoviePass the self-proclaimed future of movie cinemas across the nation now finds itself in a spiral of bad news borrowing $6 million to keep running, stopped access to Mission Impossible: Fallout, reduced the number of movie releases available, and raised prices. Was this inevitable and is the company’s failure all but assured?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 230 – Mission Impossible: Fallout, Preacher (306), Deadwood (306)

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 1st, 2018

We talk about the hottest new Mission Impossible film. Plus, Preacher keeps us on our toes and Deadwood gives us an uncomfortable moment.

00:59 – Summer Movie Draft update

04:28 – Mission Impossible: Fallout

15:50 – Preacher (306)

23:32 – Deadwood (306)

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Google Search May Go Back to China – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 1st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook is adding a way to tell how much time you spend on the app, the smartphone market slows but not for Huawei, and Google may return to China.

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CurrentGeek 180: Movie Passed

Current Geek/ Shows / July 31st, 2018
Nasa digitized a lot of audio for you and me. Lucasfilm confirms they will put Leia in episode 9. There are 45,000 year old worms among us. Netflix is making Locke and Key a thing. MoviePass might pass soon. Scott is rediscovering level 1 in WoW, and Tom loved MI:6. We will soon have trash bins that sort everything and keep all the good stuff in spools, and more!

Today in Tech History – – July 31, 2018

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

1910 – Dr. Hawley Crippen was arrested when the boat he was on docked in Quebec. He was the first person to be caught as a result of a wireless telegraph.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10802059

1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first humans to take a drive on the Moon in the lunar rover.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_15/surface_opp/

1976 – NASA issued a press release describing one photo taken by Viking 1 on Mars as resembling “a human head.” Conspiracy theories about the face on Mars still run today, though close-up pictures from the Mars Express mission have debunked most of them.

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEM09F8LURE_0.html

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