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Daily Tech Headlines – 12/5/2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 5th, 2017

YouTube staffing up for moderation, Fitbit brings more apps to Ionic watch, Honor 7X goes on sale.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 198

Cordkillers / December 5th, 2017

Mr. Robot thinks it’s over and Deadwood gets grumpy.

00:27 – Winter Movie Draft 2017
05:24 – Mr. Robot (307)
14:58 – Deadwood (102)

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Today in Tech History – December 5, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 5th, 2017

1766 – James Christie held his first sale on Pall Mall in London. Christie’s still operates auctions today and is much more civilized than EBAY.
http://www.christies.com/features/welcome/

1901 – At 2156 Tripp Avenue in Chicago, Elias and Flora welcomed their new baby boy into the world. They had no idea at the time that Mickey Mouse had also come into the world along with their son, Walt Disney.

http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/w_bio_short.html

1901 – Physicist Werner Heisenberg was born. We may not know both his precise position and precise momentum at the same time, but we are certain he was born in Wurzburg, Germany.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-bio.html

2014 – NASA’s Orion space capsule made its first successful test flight. The capsule was unmanned but made two orbits before successfully splashing down in the Pacific.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/orion-performance-showcases-exploration-abilities/#.VISRfqTF8ww

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DTNS 3171 – Am-Oz-On

Daily Tech News Show / December 4th, 2017

Kittens are taking over Ethereum, Neil Young wants to take over streaming music and whether Anil Dash is right about hyphens ruining the Internet.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 4, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 4th, 2017

Facebook launches Messenger Kids, Broadcom gets pushy with Qualcomm, and Australia goes after Facebook and Google for hurting journalism.

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Today in Tech History – December 4, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 4th, 2017

1985 – The Cray X-MP/48 began operation at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It almost doubled the speed of other machines with a parallel processing system, which ran at 420 megaflops.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/December/4/

1996 – General Motors began delivery of the EV1, an electric vehicle that would become well-loved by its drivers then be taken back in 2002 and sent to car-crushers.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1204gm-ev1-electric-car/

1998 – The space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the first American-built component of the International Space Station, a connecting node, known as Unity.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-88.html

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Today in Tech History – December 3, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 3rd, 2017

1992 – The first text message was sent on Vodafone’s UK network from a PC to a mobile device with the message “Merry Christmas.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57556747-94/father-of-sms-reflects-on-20th-anniversary-of-first-text/

1994 – The Sony PlayStation game console went on sale in Japan.
http://www.economist.com/node/21541164

1999 – NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere. It just wasn’t a good year for Mars exploration.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander/

2001 – In Bryant Park in Manhattan, Inventor Dean Kamen unveiled a secret project with the codename “Ginger” that Steve Jobs reportedly said would cause cities to be re-architected. The Segway Personal Transporter has become iconic for mall cops and mailmen.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1687647/IBOT

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DTNS LABS – INTERVIEW – Kelly Weinersmith

Daily Tech News Show / December 2nd, 2017

We talk with Kelly Weinersmith about her book, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, and how she worked to make complex scientific subjects easy to understand while still being accurate.

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Today in Tech History – December 2, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 2nd, 2017

1942 – Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and their colleagues achieved a successful nuclear fission chain reaction in a squash court underneath the football grandstand of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field. The atomic age had begun.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec02.html

1982 – A Seattle dentist named Barney Clark, deemed too sick for a heart transplant, became the first human recipient of a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik 7. He survived for 112 days.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/dayintech_1202jarvikheart/

1993 – NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, turning the Hubble from a late night talk show joke to the source of some of the most beautiful and valuable astronomy yet done.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-61.html

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DTNS 3170 – TenSpotify

Daily Tech News Show / December 1st, 2017

Jason Howell shares his tips on tech you need to make music, plus drones that plant forests and Tesl powers up South Australia.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Jason Howell, Iyaz Akhtar and Len Peralta.

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