DTNS 3218 – Facebook: All the Kids Aren’t Doing It

Daily Tech News Show / February 12th, 2018

With Apple revamping the iOS development cycle to focus more on quality control and reliability issues we examine the differences between Apple’s and Google’s approach to OS development. Plus the number of younger Facebook appears to be dropping and Uber is making six-hour breaks mandatory for drivers who’ve driven 12 hours straight.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – 02/12/2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 12th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple changes iOS development cycle, Android may work with phones that have notches and Facebook getting less popular with younger users.

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Today in Tech History – February 12, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 12th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1877 – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for the first time in public at the Salem Lyceum Hall. The demonstration ended with the sending of the first telephone news dispatch which was received by the Boston Globe.

http://www.salemweb.com/tales/lyceum.shtml

1973 – Along Interstate 71 in Ohio, the first metric distance road signs to be erected in the US were put in place. They informed of the distance between Columbus and Cleveland and Columbus and Cincinnati.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/12/loc_ohiodate0212.html

2001 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on 433 Eros after transmitting 69 close up pictures. It became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

http://near.jhuapl.edu/

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Today in Tech History – February 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 11th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1847 – Proud parents Samuel and Nancy welcomed their seventh and last child into the world. Thomas Edison would grow up to embody the word inventor.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/179233/Thomas-Alva-Edison

1970 – With the launch of Osumi 5, Japan became the fourth country (after the US, USSR and France) to place a satellite into orbit using its own rocket.
http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/exhibitions/permanent/outdoors/index.html

1997 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launched on Mission STS-82 with the objective of making significant upgrades to the scientific capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope. The upgrades helped turn the Hubble from a punchline, to one of the greatest telescopes ever created.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-82/mission-sts-82.html

2004 – Ben Hammersley wrote a column for The Guardian called “Audible revolution” describing a boom in “radio” on the Internet. He proposed three terms for the new wave of shows, Audioblogging, GuerillaMedia, and Podcasting. It was the first known publication of the term podcasting.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/12/broadcasting.digitalmedia

2016 – Researchers at LIGO published evidence of the first direct observation of gravitational waves in Physical Review Letters. Einstein predicted such waves as part of General Relativity.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10965312/einstein-gravitational-waves-discovered-announced-video

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Today in Tech History – February 10, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 10th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1958 – Scientists at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT bounced radar signals off the planet Venus, calling it the first measurement of interplanetary distances.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19590319&id=c1EqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7082,1174229

1996 – Chess’s international grandmaster Garry Kasparov began a six game match against IBM’s Deep Blue. Deep Blue won the first game, the first time that a current world champion had ever been beaten by a computer opponent under regular tournament conditions.

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/watch/html/c.10.html
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/02/0210computer-deep-blue-beats-chess-champ-kasparov/

2004 – While talking about their forthcoming game, Game Neverending, Ludicorp unveiled a side project called Flickr at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech Conference in San Diego. It was a service that melded chat rooms with real-time photo sharing.
http://techland.time.com/2014/02/10/flickr-turns-10-the-rise-fall-and-revival-of-a-photo-sharing-community/?curator=MediaREDEF

2009 – One of Motorola’s communication satellites Iridium 33 collided with defunct Russian satellite Kosmos-2251 destroying both. It was an unprecedented space collision.
http://www.space.com/5542-satellite-destroyed-space-collision.html

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DTNS 3217 – Self-Settling Lawsuit

Daily Tech News Show / February 9th, 2018

Uber and Waymo have finally settled. So what can this real live corporate drama teach start-ups and their partner companies about navigating around the dangers of intellectual property? Plus Facebook is testing a downvote option on comments and how the Praying Mantis may be key to giving robots low-cost stereoscopic vision.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Shannon Morse.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 9, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 9th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber and Waymo settle out of court, Facebook testing a downvote button, India fines Google for antitrust.

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Today in Tech History – February 9, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 9th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1870 – US President Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill authorizing “the Secretary of War to take observations at military stations and to warn of storms on the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.” This agency operating under the Signal Service eventually became the National Weather Service.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/pa/history/signal.php

1969 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet took flight for the first time. It was the first wide-body plane ever produced.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=1181

1995 – Dr. Bernard Harris became the first African-American to walk in space. Joining him, Michael Foale became the first British-born American to walk in space.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/harris.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/foale.html

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DTNS 3216 – Paul Allen Shreds

Daily Tech News Show / February 8th, 2018

The source code for iBoot a core component of iOS 9 was posted on GitHub. Apple issues a DMCA take-down notice. What are the implications for iPhone security? Police in China are testing sunglasses with built-in facial recognition technology in train stations. Amazon has added Whole Foods to its Prime Now delivery service to residents in Austin, Dallas, Virginia Beach, and Cincinnati.

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