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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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Samsung’s growth slows weighed down by low Galaxy S9 sales while Huawei posted a 15% increase in revenue. How OpenAI is improving robotic hands work. Yahoo Finance is planning on launching its own full-day live video stream network by the end of the year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
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WhatsApp now supports group voice and video calling, Yahoo Finance may launch live streaming network, Logitech buys Blue Microphones.
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1889 – Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia. He would go on to earn the title “Father of Television” (one of several called that) for his work on the iconoscope and the kinescope. He worked on television for RCA.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/30/
1898 – The Winton Motor Carriage Company placed a magazine advertisement in Scientific American calling on readers to “dispense with a horse.” It’s the earliest known automobile ad.
https://www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0730/
1971 – The Apollo 15 mission landed the first lunar rover onto the moon.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo15/index.html
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Twitter will work with two university professors to understand the Internet “echo chamber”. A UK parliamentary committee calls for action to “build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system”. How do we go about “fixing” the internet and ensure that misinformation is NOT passed along as objective fact?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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DJI Mavic models show up in a catalog, Spanish taxi drivers engage in ride-hailing protest and Twitter hires professors to help make the platform better.
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1947 – ENIAC was switched on after being transferred to the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. It operated continuously until October 2 1955.
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4374183/Construction-begins-on-ENIAC–May-31–1943
1951 – A recording was made of Beethoven’s 9th by EMI that eventually became used to justify the diameter of the CD.
1958 – President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_29.html
2015 – Microsoft launched Windows 10 as a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/operating-systems/23119/windows-10-release-date-and-specs-76
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1858 – The first use of fingerprints as identification took place in India. William James Herschel, magistrate of Nuddea, India requested local businessman Rajyadhar Konai make a handprint on the back of a contract. Herschel wanted to “frighten [Konai] out of all thought of repudiating his signature.”
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/dcjs/html/nyidbur2.html
1997 – Dell announced its entry into the workstation market with the Dell Workstation 400.
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-07-1997/swol-07-eyeoncomp.html#0
2000 – Ted Kekatos celebrated the First System Administrator Appreciation Day. He had been inspired by an HP ad showing people bringing gifts to their System Administrator. The day is celebrated annually on the last Friday of July.
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It’s our end of month July round table episode. We examine how robust security keys are in everyday life and why moving to physical keys in an digital world makes sense. We discuss the technology used to discover water on Mars and how this will change the idea of space exploration. Plus teens debate the news with peers on Instagram. What are the implications of a free for all mindset to the spread of information and will this alter how these teens will get their news as adults?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Rob DeMillo.
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