DTNS 3208 – Botty By Nature

Apple plans on releasing three new Macs with custom co-processors later this year. Military users of the fitness tracker Strava may of inadvertently exposed sensitive location data. And is the US considering a building a government 5G network to combat spying?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 29, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Strava reveals military locations, Microsoft issues out-of-band Spectre rollback, US considering building its own 5G network.

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Today in Tech History – January 29, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1886 – Karl Benz submitted a patent for his Benz Patent Motorwagen, a three-wheeler vehicle with a one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. The world’s first patent for a practical internal combustion engine powered automobile. Previous automobiles had been steam-powered.

http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1322446-1-1323352-1-0-0-1322455-0-0-135-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

1895 – Charles Proteus Steinmetz received a patent for a “system of distribution by alternating currents.” His engineering work made a widespread power grid practical.

http://www.google.com/patents/US533244

1901 – In Brooklyn, Allen B. DuMont was born. He would go on to perfect the cathode ray tube, sell the first practical commercial television and found the first national US TV network to fail. The DuMont network was eventually sold to Fox Television Stations.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tV7fXlQQdz4C&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=january+29,+1901+dumont&source=bl&ots=EUPEhckzt5&sig=aJqDM3cOO0NWx5a7EbfeznNL0ts&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTjsi2lZ7YAhUD5GMKHRySA4UQ6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q=january%2029%2C%201901%20dumont&f=false

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Today in Tech History – January 28, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1878 – The first commercial telephone exchange in the US was installed at New Haven, Connecticut, and served 21 subscribers connected by a single strand of iron wire. Only two conversations could be handled simultaneously and six connections had to be made for each call.

http://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/withdrawn/telephone.htm

1960 – The Communications Moon Relay System was inaugurated publicly when a facsimile picture of the USS Hancock was transmitted wirelessly by radio wave to Washington DC, by being bounced off the moon.

http://www.nrl.navy.mil/accomplishments/systems/moon-relay/

1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger experienced an O-ring failure in the right solid rocket booster during flight. 73 seconds after liftoff a catastrophic explosion claimed crew and vehicle.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51L.html

2001 – The Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants faced off in Tampa Bay, Florida, for Super Bowl XXXV, and facial-recognition surveillance cameras pointed at tens of thousands of fans entering the game. It found 12 false positives.

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/w01/Papers/Lopez.htm

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Today in Tech History – January 27, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1948 – IBM dedicated its “SSEC” in New York City. The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator handled both data and instructions using electronic circuits made with 13,500 vacuum tubes and 21,000 relays.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html

1967 – The first US astronauts died in the line of duty. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfed their command module during testing for the first Apollo-Saturn mission.

http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/

2006 – Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. The company still handles money transfers.

http://www.livescience.com/6989-era-ends-western-union-stops-sending-telegrams.html

2010 – Apple announced the iPad, a tablet computer running the same operating system as the iPhone.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPad.html

2016 – Google’s DeepMind researchers published a paper in Nature announcing that their machine intelligence AlphaGo had defeated Fan Hui, a three-time European Go champion. The computer won five games of Go without a defeat.

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats-a-top-player-at-the-game-of-go/

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DTNS 3207 – Montana is So Gangsta

It’s our end of month Jan 2018 roundtable episode. We examine the data security implications of smart speakers, discuss the future of state enforced net neutrality, ponder the how connected technology has changed traveling, and share the tech topics we’re tired of talking about.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 26, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google gets into local news, Intel has good news despite Meltdown and Rakuten and Wal-Mart team up on groceries and ebooks.

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Today in Tech History – January 26, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1926 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of a broadcast television picture that delivered a recognizable human face. Previously he could only broadcast silhouettes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/tvstory2 http://www.bairdtelevision.com/

1932 – The US Patent Office received a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a “Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions.”

http://www.google.com/patents?id=egdOAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory saw first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope. Hubble photographed Hubble’s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261).

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/history.html

1983 – Lotus began selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. It would quickly become the most popular spreadsheet software but not make the transition to Windows well and fall behind Excel permanently.

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/0126lotus-1-2-3/

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DTNS 3206 – Millennials Are Killing CNN

Are gestures the best way to control devices? Plus, Nintendo ends its first iOS app, CNN ends Casey Neistat’s Beme and New York tries to end net neutrality violations.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 25, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Miitomo closing down, Apple changing iBooks and Samsung sets a date for the 9.

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