Today in Tech History – – April 27, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 27th, 2018

1981 – The first mouse integrated with a personal computer made its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation.

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/

1995 – The Justice Department sued to block Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, claiming the acquisition would raise prices and squash innovation. Intuit still exists but Microsoft Money is long gone.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19950427&id=CfQqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jdAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6545,2500946

1998 – Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the first known live interspecies chat with Koko the gorilla. Koko signed her answers; Penny Patterson interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator entered them in the computer.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9804/24/gorilla.chat/index.html

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 27, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 27th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon raises Prime price, Apple discontinues Airport, Microsoft revenues soar.

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DTNS 3270 – Mind Over Bacon

Daily Tech News Show / April 26th, 2018

Earnings reports from Intel, Microsoft, Amazon and Nintendo. Plus researchers at MIT have successfully kept a pig’s brain alive outside of its body and chip architecture Jim Keller is leaving Tesla and heading for Intel.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Today in Tech History – – April 26, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 26th, 2018

1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E3DA1138E033A25755C2A9629C94659FD7CF

1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.

http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/

1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Chernobyl-Accident/#.Ud7xfz54Zvg

1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.

https://books.google.com/books?id=DnjwTdlpsekC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11&dq=replaytv+april+1999&source=bl&ots=Y2SJbfViMA&sig=5ZFQ5SAFV5C5tUPnU7MVas8Vmb0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii5dHQidrLAhVU3GMKHVavDRQQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=replaytv%20april%201999&f=false

2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/landfill-excavation-unearths-years-of-crushed-atari-treasure/

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 26, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 26th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung hints at lagging iPhone X sales, IBM launches jewelry blockchain, Tesla loses famed chip architect.

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#322 – Analysis Paralysis

Shows/ Sword and Laser / April 25th, 2018

Have you ever walked into a book store and just froze? Us too. We’ll talk you through it. Plus we announced the May book pick and Tanith Lee fans will be happy! Because it’s by Tanith Lee! Also the wrap-up for We Are Legion (We are Bob).

DTNS 3269 – MoviePass: Pass… or Play?

Daily Tech News Show / April 25th, 2018

Is MoviePass the future of movie theater as it backers allege or is it destined to be another casualty of price sensitive consumers? Plus Google rolls out new changes to the venerable Gmail app and a Federal Appeals court rules that a man who created Windows rescue CDs to ship alongside refurbished PCs can go to jail.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Chris Mancini.

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Today in Tech History – – April 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 25th, 2018

1944 – Lt. Carter Harman of the 1st Air Commando Group rescued four men from the jungle in Burma, flying a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. It was the first combat rescue by helicopters in the US Army Air Forces.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130312201246/http://www.pacaf.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090422-085.pdf

1953 – Watson and Crick presented their findings on the double helical structure of DNA in the publication Nature. They noted that the structure “suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” 50 Years later the Human Genome Project had concluded sequencing the genome and published a follow-on in Nature on their vision for genetic research.

http://www.sns.ias.edu/~tlusty/courses/landmark/WatsonCrick1953.pdf

1961 – Robert Noyce received the US patent for the silicon-based integrated circuit. He went on to found the Intel Corporation with Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Noyce fought a long patent rights battle with Jack Kilby who invented a germanium based integrated circuit.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/icinv.html

2014 – Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia’s handset business. Nokia retained its mapping, research and network infrastructure business. Microsoft gained most of the mobile phone parts of the company.

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-closes-nokia-deal-pays-more-than-expected/#ftag=CAD590a51e

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Gmail redesign, AI IDs heart attacks – DTH

Daily Tech News Show / April 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Gmail gets a redesign, Windows 10 might get lean and Ai helps identify heart attacks.

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