Daily Tech Headlines – May 2, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 2nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook launches standalone VR headset, Apple earnings look good for phone sales and service revenue, Moviepass brings back unlimited subscription.

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DTNS 3273 – D8. It’s Your F8

Daily Tech News Show / May 1st, 2018

We analyze the latest announcements from Facebook’s F8 conference. Plus the British Parliament gives Facebook CEO Zuckerberg an ultimatum. Voluntarily give evidence before Parliament or get a summons the next time he steps foot in the UK.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Today in Tech History – – May 1, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 1st, 2018

1884 – Construction began in Chicago on the Home Insurance Building, generally acknowledged as the first steel-frame high-rise skyscraper.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-02-20/news/9702200217_1_skyscraper-american-skyline-office-building

1959 – Shortly after construction had begun, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was officially named in honor of the pioneering rocket scientist.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/dr_goddard.html

1964 – Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny of Dartmouth College, launched a time-sharing system using a language meant to be learned quickly, called BASIC.

http://cis-alumni.org/BASIC.html

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 1, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 1st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Jan Koum reportedly set to leave Facebook, Twitter says video makes up over half its ad revenue, Microsoft adds new features to Outlook.com.

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DTNS 3272 – End Graphic Violence (in GPU Pricing)!

Daily Tech News Show / April 30th, 2018

In the market to upgrade you PC or Mac desktop display? We got TekThing’s Patrick Norton on the show to talk about what you should be on the lookout for when buying a new computer monitor. Plus France.com’s owner files suit against France and T-Mobile and Sprint say I do to a corporate merger.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.

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Today in Tech History – – April 30, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 30th, 2018

1904 – George Stibitz was born. He pioneered the principles of relay-based computing. And named the “model K” design after his kitchen table. His work led to the Complex Number Calculator, the first remotely accessed computer.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/30/

1916 – Claude Elwood Shannon was born. He is considered the father of information theory and is the man who coined the term ‘bit’ for the fundamental unit of both data and computation.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/30/

1939 – RCA began regularly scheduled television service in New York City, with a telecast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the New York World’s Fair. Programs were transmitted from mobile camera trucks to the main transmitter, which was connected to an aerial atop the Empire State Building. The broadcasting division of RCA was called the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

http://www.bairdtelevision.com/RCA.html

1993 – CERN released a statement declaring the software protocols developed for the World Wide Web would be available in the public domain.

http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 30, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 30th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500T-Mobile and Sprint want to merge, AMD has a 7-nanometer chip, and the fight over France.com.

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