Tom tries to convince Veronica to fight hate, but A Wrinkle In Time has her questioning love’s power.
DTNS 3230 – Twitter: Toxic or Tonic?
Has the mobile phone market reached full saturation? A dedicated Ghanian teacher’s efforts to teach how computers work without using a computer has won global applause, and America’s mobile wireless companies join forces to create a new multi-factor authentication standard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:15) ‘Bro Culture’ Led to Repeated Sexual Harassment, Former Google Engineer’s Lawsuit Says | gizmodo
- (01:55) Nintendo Holds Off on Switch 2.0, Looks to Peripherals for More Sales | wall street journal
- (02:35) Facebook won’t move news into a separate feed after all | the verge
- More Top Stories
- (03:15) Longer upgrade cycles and growing purchases of used smartphones said to threaten flagship sales | 9to5 google
- (04:30) Microsoft Soundscape helps the visually impaired navigate cities | tech crunch
- (07:40) Uber launches Uber Health, a B2B ride-hailing platform for healthcare | tech crunch
- (09:25) The story behind the viral photo of a teacher in Ghana showing students Windows on a blackboard | quartz
- (11:50) US carriers testing replacement for two-factor authentication | engadget
- Discussion (15:45)
- Message of the Day
- (23:50) Alan – QR code fun
- Today’s Contributors
Daily Tech Headlines -March 1, 2018
Uber launches Uber Health, Nintendo is not updating Switch hardware, Best Buy shuttering mobile stores.
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Today in Tech History – March 1, 2018
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered images of uranium rocks had appeared on a photographic plate without exposure to the sun. He had discovered natural radiation.
1995 – A little over a year after starting the website in January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo incorporated Yahoo!
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_march.php?
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reached its one millionth article, “Jordanhill railway station.”
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article?
2016 – Astronauts Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly landed safely in Kazakhstan after spending a record 340 days aboard the International Space Station.
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DTNS 3229 – Minority Report in New Orleans
Is big data based predictive policing the key to better law enforcement or is it a bandage for more serious issues? Plus Fitbit teases a new fitness tracker watch and researchers at MIT have come up with a faster and safer way to build wood furniture.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:15) There Is Actually a Point to Putting a 4G Network On the Moon | fortune
- (02:00) Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn | tech crunch
- (02:25) BlackBerry will remove paid apps from the BlackBerry World app store on April 1st | the verge
- (02:40) Spotify files for its unusual IPO | axios
- More Top Stories
- (03:35) Apple Watch Series 3 Can Now Track Skiing and Snowboarding Activity | macrumors
- (04:50) Fitbit’s new ‘mass appeal’ smartwatch: Exclusive pictures and details revealed | wareable
- (07:45) Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta | tech crunch
- (10:45) Twitter launches Bookmarks, a private way to save tweets | tech crunch
- (12:55) MIT’s robot carpenters will saw wood for you, but you have to make the furniture yourself | the verge
- Discussion (15:30)
- Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology | the verge
- Chicago’s predictive policing tool just failed a major test | the verge
- Predictive Policing Reinforces Police Bias | human rights data analysis group
- Message of the Day
- (24:35) David – Vero
- Today’s Contributors
Daily Tech Headlines – February 28, 2018
Fitbit watch for women on the horizon, Ford is launching autonomous car feet in Miami, New Orleans secret partnership with Palantir revealed.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 209 – Annihilation, Counterpart, Deadwood
Annihilation: good movie or poor take on a book? Plus, a death on Counterpart.
01:16 – Annihilation
22:13 – Counterpart (106)
31:19 – Deadwood (110)
Today in Tech History – February 28, 2018
1947 – The first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation showed procedures to observers in classrooms at Johns Hopkins University.
1954 – The Westinghouse H840CK15 went on sale in the New York area. It is generally agreed to be the first production television receiver using NTSC color offered to the public. Only 30 sets were sold at $1,295 a pop.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/westinghouse_ad.html?
Westinghouse display ad, New York Times, Feb. 28, 1954, p. 57
1959 – Discoverer 1 was launched on a Thor-Agena A rocket and became the first man-made object ever put into a polar orbit.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1959-002A?
2017 – A typo in a command to take some servers offline for maintenance caused an outage in Amazon’s S3 service that took millions of websites offline.
https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/?
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DTNS 3228 – In Vero Veritas?
Vero is currently the hottest app on the App Store. The latest platform social networking platform can Vero successfully break into a market dominated by FB, Instagram and Twitter? Plus Apple is launching medical clinics to provide employees with healthcare and Facebook is using Messenger to de-radicalize extremists.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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Daily Tech Headlines – February 27, 2018
Apple starting its own health care system, Ford begins autonomous car test in Miami, Cellebrite says it can unlock iOS 11 devices.
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