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Today in Tech History – January 8, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 8th, 2018

1889 – Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electronic tabulating machine. His Tabulating Machine Company would go on to merge with three others and be called International Business Machines, known today as IBM.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=iPNEAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/hollerith.html

1973 – Less than a month after the last manned Moon mission, Apollo 17, the USSR launched space mission Luna 21 carrying lunar rover Lunakhod 2.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html

1982 – The United States vs. AT&T settlement was finalized with AT&T agreeing to divest itself of local exchanges in exchange for being allowed to start AT&T Computer Systems. Like Voltron, the behemoth would eventually reassemble.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/hearings/single_firm/docs/218697.htm

1986 – “The Mentor” wrote “The Conscience of a Hacker” writing “This is our world now.” It was published on Phrack and is often referred to as the Hacker Manifesto.
http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 8, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 8th, 2018

Sprint CEO joins Uber’s Board, Samsung and LG get their smart fridge on, and Tivo announces its Next-Gen Platform.

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Today in Tech History – January 7, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 7th, 2018

1714 – Henry Mill patented a machine for transcribing letters “one after another, as in writing.” Sadly, he died before he perfected the first typewriter.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_history.html

1839 – Louis Daguerre made the first announcement of his photographic system at the Académie des Sciences in Paris, though details were not presented until August of that year.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm

1954 – In New York at IBM headquarters, IBM and Georgetown University showed off their joint project on machine translation. More than 60 sentences were translated from Russian to English using eight grammar rules.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html

2003 – Apple released the public beta of its new browser, called Safari.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/01/07Apple-Unveils-Safari.html

2016 – the 49th Mersenne prime was discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. It was written as 2^74,207,281-1.
http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281

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DTNS LABS – GAMES – Big Games of 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 6th, 2018

In this episode, we discuss the big games you can exepect and look forwrd to in 2018:
Monster Hunter World (Jan 26, PS4, XBO, Win)
Dragon Ball Fighter Z (Jan 26, PS4, XBO, Win)
Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom (Mar 23, PS4, Win)
A Way Out (Mar 23, PS4, XBO, Win)
Far Cry 5 (Mar 27, PS4, XBO, Win)
Wargroove (TBA Q1/Q2, Switch, XBO, Win)
Kingdom Hearts III (TBA, PS4, XBO)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (TBA Q2, PS4, XBO)
Anthem (Q3, PS4, XBO, Win)
Crackdown 3 (Q2, XBO, PC)
Sea of Thieves (Mar 20, XBO, PC)
State of Decay 2 (2018, XBO, PC)
God of War (TBA Q1, PS4)
Detroit: Become Human (Q2, PS4)
Days Gone (TBA Q1/Q2, PS4)
Spider-Man (TBA Q1/Q2, PS4)

With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

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Today in Tech History – January 6, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 6th, 2018

1838 – Samuel Morse, with his partner, Alfred Vail, gave the first public demonstration of their new electric telegraphic system at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, NJ. They used Morse’s specially designed code to send the message “A patient waiter is no loser.”
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/morse-demonstrates-telegraph

1851 – Leon Foucault proved the rotation of the Earth experimentally. He wrote in his journal that he made the discovery at 2:00 AM working with his famous pendulum in the cellar of his house.
http://www.davidellyard.com/01-02_08%20Discoveries.pd

2004 – Apple debuted the iPod Mini, a diminutive 4GB version of the iPod available in five colors at $249.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/01/06Apple-Introduces-iPod-mini.html

2016 – Oculus began taking orders for the Oculus Rift VR headset. It cost $599 and came with a remote, Xbox One controller and external sensor on a stand for $599. It was also bundled with the game Lucky’s Tale and access to Eve: Valkyrie.

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-now-open-first-shipments-march-28/

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DTNS 3193a – IoT: The Internet of Toilets

Daily Tech News Show / January 5th, 2018

The hottest trends to expect at CES, plus smart toilets. Which is one of the hot trends at CES actually.
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Allison Sheridan.

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News You Should Know
- (01:05) Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine may leave the company in August | the verge
- (01:40) To catch Apple, Fitbit invests in a company that makes a small patch to track blood sugar for diabetics | cnbc
- (02:30) FCC issues final version of order eliminating net neutrality rules | tech crunch
More Top Stories
- (02:50) Alexa is coming to wearable devices, including headphones, smartwatches and fitness trackers | tech crunch
- (05:10) Kohler’s new smart fixtures make Alexa your bathroom buddy | engadget
- (07:40) Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it | ars technica
- (09:40) Intel says performance impact of security updates not significant | reuters
  - Google says it can mitigate Spectre with “negligible” effect | boingboing
  - Intel facing multiple class action suits over chip security flaw | the verge
- (14:20) GoPro cuts 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its drone division | tech crunch
Discussion Story
- (16:00) CES Expectations
  - CES 2018: What to expect | engadget
  - CES 2018: What to Expect from the Year’s Biggest Tech Show | the verge
  - 12 questions that CES 2018 needs to answer | cnet
Message of the Day
- (27:15) James – voicemail
Today’s Contributors
- Get Len Peralta‘s “CES Connected Commode” at his store or by supporting his Patreon
- Allison Sheridan
  - Allison interviewed by Rich Stroffolino for Gestalt IT and the podcast IT Origins
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Daily Tech Headlines – January 5, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 5th, 2018

Jimmy Iovine might cash out at Apple, Kohler makes smart faucets and more updates on Meltdown and Spectre

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Today in Tech History – January 5, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 5th, 2018

1948 – Warner Brothers showed the very first color newsreel, featuring the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football game.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Nyg3NJ4VVuAC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=january+5+1948+newsreel+tournament+of+roses&source=bl&ots=1v6x2PwJ4c&sig=Snfz8JP62-w3DyzyoPKaY73cuyo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjagv3n89vJAhVF62MKHbL8DBQQ6AEIRjAJ#v=onepage&q=january%205%201948%20newsreel%20tournament%20of%20roses&f=false

1972 – President Richard M. Nixon announced that NASA would develop a space shuttle system, emphasizing its reliability, reusability and low cost.
http://history.nasa.gov/stsnixon.htm

1984 – Richard Stallman began working on the GNU Operating system, a free UNIX-like OS. GNU/Linux is seen as the most successful outgrowth of that project.

http://stallman.org/

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DTNS 3192 – The Spectre of Speculation

Daily Tech News Show / January 4th, 2018

Whether or not to freak out about the new chip vulnerabilities, or whether to freak out about the Indian citizen database breach OR whether you should freak out about oil-filled artificial muscles for robots and prosthetics.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Roger Chang.

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News You Should Know
- (01:15) Nintendo’s Switch is the fastest-selling US console ever | engadget
- (01:20) Samsung’s new Exynos chip teases iPhone X features for Galaxy S9 | circuit breaker
- (01:40) Blade Shadow heads to the US to slay your PC | cnet
- (02:15) Mad Catz, maker of gaming peripherals, is back from the dead | cnet
- (02:40) Microsoft unveils preorders for the beautiful $319 Cortana-powered thermostat | the verge
More Top Stories
- (03:10) “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws | ars technica
  - Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers | new york times
  - Meltdown and Spectre | graz university
  - Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know | google security blog
  - Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits | intel
  - Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2 | macrumors
  - (05:30) Michael O’Neill – Meltdown and Spectre
- (13:55) Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2018: Fix Facebook | cnbc
- (18:20) AT&T will launch real mobile 5G in 12 cities this year | engadget
- (21:10) India probes report on breach of national identity database | reuters
- (23:35) A Clever New Robotic ‘Muscle’ Seriously Lifts, Bro | wired
Message of the Day
- (26:35) Anonymous – Apple design
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#314 – Not-So-Young Frankenstein

Shows/ Sword and Laser / January 4th, 2018

It’s a whole new year of books, and we have some suggestions! Plus the science behind Westeros and the amazing 200-year-old Mary Shelley.