#312 – Eating Bones for Fun and Magic by swordandlaser
Daily Tech Headlines – December 8, 2017
YouTube developing another music service, Didi Chuxing headed to Mexico and Amazon Echo and Amazon Music Unlimited expand to 28 more countries.
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Today in Tech History – December 8, 2017
1931 – US Patent No. 1,835,031 for a “concentric conducting system” was awarded to Lloyd Espenschied of Kew Gardens, New York, and Herman A. Affel of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and assigned to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Coaxial Cable had been patented.
1993 – The US Secretary of Defense declared the GPS system a dual use system that had Initial Operation Capability and opened the Standard Positioning System to civilians, which gave accuracy of nine meters horizontally.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/gps/gps-info
2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX became the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/spacexfeature.html
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DTNS 3174 – The Large Patron Collider
A blockchain-based replacement for Wikipedia, Qualcomm’s hot new mobile chip and Patreon’s watershed moment.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 7, 2017
Instagram testing messaging app, Valave stops taking bitcoins in Steam and Lyft starts a test autonomous car service.
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Today in Tech History – December 7, 2017
1962 – Ferranti Ltd. switched on the Atlas, the UK’s first supercomputer. It was the most powerful computer in the world at the time and doubled the UK’s scientific computing capability.
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/12/remembering-ferranti-atlas-uks-first.html
1963 – The CBS broadcast of the college football game between Army and Navy featured the first use of video instant replay during a sports telecast. Some people got confused and called to complain.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19727_7-57337961-10170017/the-birth-of-instant-replay/
1972 – The last Apollo moon mission, Apollo 17 was launched. The crew took the famous Blue Marble picture that now graces desktop background everywhere.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo17.html
1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America sued 6-month-old Napster. The Industry refused to settle, thus insuring that digital music sales would remain low for years to come.
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DTNS 3173 – Watts’ The Matter With Bitcoin?
Amazon comes to Apple TV, Facebook wins best place to work, you won’t believe who’s winning in smartphones in China? (Yes you will, it’s Huawei) but why isn’t Samsung? AND whether Bitcoin will ruin our power grid and climate.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Scott Johnson.
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 6, 2017
Microsoft opens Whiteboard app public preview, Mozilla and Yahoo continue legal spat over Firefox browser, new emoji candidates announced.
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Today in Tech History – December 6, 2017
1877 – Thomas Edison tested out his new phonograph invention, by recording the first lines of the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” He recreated the event in 1927.
1957 – Responding to Sputnik, the United States launched the Vanguard TV3. The rocket only made it a little over a meter off the launchpad before it fell back and was destroyed. A fuel leak was thought to have caused the failure.
http://archive.org/details/GPN-2001-000008
2006 – NASA revealed photographs from the Martian Global Surveyor, of two craters called Terra Sirenum and Centauri Montes which appeared to show evidence that water existed on the surface of Mars, as recently as five years before.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mgs-20061206.html
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DTNS 3172 – The End of Burgergate
YouTube is adding 10,000 people in a new push to filter objectionable content from the site. Will it work? And what about other popular online social platforms? Plus the FCC is going full steam on head on dismantling FCC provisions on Net Neutrality.
Featuring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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