1919 – Sir Arthur Eddington led a team in Africa to observe the total eclipse, while another team observed it in Brazil, to measure how the sun bent star light during a solar eclipse. The results confirmed Einstein’s theory of Relativity.
http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/einstein.php
1935 – Workers poured the last concrete at the iconic Hoover Dam hydroelectric site. Four months later after the concrete was well and truly set, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the dam.
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/
1992 – John Sculley introduced the Apple Newton at CES. The first one unveiled on stage had dead batteries and didn’t work.
http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html
2015 – Google announced Levi’s as the first partner for Project Jacquard, a way of weaving electronics into clothing to do things like turn cloth into a touchscreen controller.
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In this episode, we discuss:
General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, the EU’s new data privacy rules start today. Already some EU users have been blocked from sites, access to social media platforms limited for others, and lawsuits against large tech firms in the process of being filed. We examine the laws impact, its affect on countries outside of the EU and how well large tech firm are complying with the new rules.