Daily Tech Headlines – December 13, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 13th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500T-Mobile plans new TV service, Google announces AI center in China, Dutch eagle drone project is abandoned.

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Today in Tech History – December 13, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 13th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1962 – NASA “Relay 1” launched, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-068A

1977 – Young Bill Gates was arrested for a traffic violation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leading to one of the most famous mugshots ever.

http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/gallery/MicrosoftTheEndofTheBillGatesEra?pg=3

1977 – Robert Metcalfe et. al were awarded a patent for “Multipoint data communication system with collision detection” also known as ethernet.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=Szg6AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

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DTNS 3177 – 1800s TweetStorm

Daily Tech News Show / December 12th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comOfficial tweetstorms, following hashtags on Instagram and why Patrick thinks there may be an anti-bubble that’s ruining your day.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 12, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 12th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500iMac pro gets a sale date, Google experiments with new photo apps and Tesla sells more electric trucks.

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Today in Tech History – December 12, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 12th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazed a group at Toynbee Hall in East London with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Every time Marconi hit a key a bell would ring from a box across the room being carried by William Henry Preece.

http://www.wired.com/2011/12/1212marconi-radio-demo-transatlantic/

1973 – Founder of LinkExchange, CEO of Zappos, and promoter of customer-centric business, Tony Hsieh was born.

http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/tag/tony-hsieh/

1980 – Apple’s stock was initially offered for sale. Regulators in Massachusetts prohibited individual investors in the state from buying the stock, as it was deemed too risky.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4403276/Apple-IPO-makes-instant-millionaires–December-12–1980

1991 – Paul Kunz set up the first website in North America. It searched particle physics literature at Stanford.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/december12/webturns10-1212.html

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DTNS 3176 – Internet of Steves tells FCC to Stop It

Daily Tech News Show / December 11th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAre you a bad person for looking at someone else’s phone while they’re texting? Plus, there’s a way to 3D print WiFi devices made of plastic and a way to start learning quantum computing without owning a quantum computer.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 11, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 11th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x15003D print plastic that can handle WiFi, Apple buys Shazam, the fake MyEtherWallet.

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Today in Tech History – December 11, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 11th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1910 – Georges Claude, the first person to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas, displayed the first neon lamp to the public at the Paris Motor Show.

http://inventors.about.com/od/qstartinventions/a/neon.htm

1967 – The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France. Bigger news than the speed of the jet was the announcement that it was finally agreed that the British and French planes would both be spelled with an “e” at the end.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2050872,00.html

1972 – Apollo 17 became the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo17/index.html

1998 – The Mars Climate Orbiter was successfully launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. However, the probe disappeared on September 23rd before reaching Mars, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco981211.html

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