DTNS 3258a – Ban ¢ash movement

Daily Tech News Show / April 10th, 2018

As countries like Sweden push for cashless payments it seems the future of currency is electronic payments but is this a necessarily a good thing? Plus Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gets a grilling on Capital Hill and the W3C and FIDO Alliance announce WebAuthn, a password-free open standard supported by the latest version of Firefox.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 10, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 10th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook announces data abuse bounty program, Walmart to use Postmates for grocery delivery, Vevo YouTube account hacked.

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Today in Tech History – April 10, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1710 – The Statute of Anne entered into force in Great Britain. The statute ended the practice of copyright being enforced by the Stationer’s Guild under the licensing act and for the first time granted copyright to authors.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/anne_1710.asp

1943 – Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania began work on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer known as ENIAC. The machine that was synonymous for years with the word computer, could perform 5,000 additions per second.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/10/

2003 – British Airways and Air France announced the retirement of all Concorde supersonic jets. After a quarter century of supersonic speeds, passengers in the 21st century would go slower than those who flew in the late 20th century.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/04/10/concorde.history

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DTNS 3257 – Mr. Zuck Goes to Washington

Daily Tech News Show / April 9th, 2018

Zuckerberg meets lawmakers on Capital Hill, Facebook suspends two data analytic companies, and Facebook partners with nonprofit foundations to measure the affects of Social Media on elections. Plus PayPal is rolling out FDIC insured debit cards and Leap Motion announces Project North Star.

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

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 9, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / April 9th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber buys a bike-sharing company, Apple issues new RED phones and Facebook apologizes to the US Congress.

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Today in Tech History – April 9, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1860 – Parisian typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his Phonoautogram to record sound onto paper but had no way to play it back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html

1919 – Presper Eckert was born in Philadelphia. Eckert became famous for his work, with John Mauchly on the ENIAC project.

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/entrepreneuereckert

1959 – NASA publicly announced the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, who quickly became known as the “Mercury Seven”.

http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/intro.htm

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Today in Tech History – April 8, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1953 – The major studios were inspired by the 1952 3D hit “Bwana Devil.” Columbia beat Warner Brothers’ “House of Wax” to the theatre, with a New York City premiere, making “Man in the Dark” the first 3D motion picture produced and released by a major studio.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046036/

1959 – The Department of Defense called a meeting at the University of Pennsylvania to define the objectives for a new Common Business Language. Captain Grace Hopper led the group that kicked off COBOL.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4411540/COBOL-group-meets-for-1st-time–April-8–1959

1991 – A team moved from Sun Microsystems to work in secret on Project “Green” using its “Oak” programming language. The whole thing later bacame “Java.”

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/8/

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Today in Tech History – April 7, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1927 – The Bell System sent live TV images of Herbert Hoover, then the Secretary of Commerce, over telephone lines from Washington, D.C. to an auditorium in Manhattan. It was the first public demonstration in the US of long-distance television transmission.

https://www.poynter.org/news/today-media-history-1927-newspapers-introduced-television

1964 – IBM unveiled the System/360 line of mainframe computers, its most successful computer system. It was called the “360” because it was meant to address all possible sizes and types of customer with one unified software-compatible architecture.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html

1969 – The first Request For Comment, RFC 1 put together by Steve Crocker was distributed on the newly operational ARPANET. RFCs describe methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet.
http://isen.com/blog/2009/04/40th-anniversary-of-rfc-1.html http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1

2014 – OpenSSL issued a security advisory about a vulnerability that would come to be called ‘Heartbleed.’ The bug was in the TLS Heartbeat function, that when implemented could be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server. Unpatched servers could have their private keys stolen making it easy for malicious hackers to pretend to have certified secure connections.

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

2015 – HBO launched it’s HBO Now service, allowing US viewers to watch HBO online without a cable subscription. The service was initially sold through Apple and Cablevision.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/hbo-now-arrives-on-apple-tv/

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DTNS 3256 – Shelly’s Accessibility Tech Rundown

Daily Tech News Show / April 6th, 2018

Accessibility tech has made great strides over the years. We take a look at the trends and developments that promise to make technology more accessible and easier to use for persons with disabilities.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Shelly Brisbin.

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