OMG. Patrick Rothfuss is best buds with Lin-Manuel Miranda and they’re doing a TV prequel to Kingkiller Chronicles, while Felicia Day plays Poppy the Dragonologist AND Amazon wants to do a Tolkien series. And that doesn’t even begin to shed light on how good our book pick Doomsday Book is. But the piece de resistance of the show is one man’s story of losing power and trying to read.
DTNS 3156 – Check Your Mark Privilege
We try to make sense of the AT&T Time Warner merger situation, and we try to make sense of the Twitter verification pause, AND we try to make sense of Facebook’s revenge porn reporting system.
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Daily Tech Headlines – November 9, 2017
Apple may take home button off iPad, Intel to make graphics cards, Chrome battles annoying redirects.
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Today in Tech History – November 9, 2017
1967 – NASA launched a Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 4, a test craft launched from Cape Kennedy. It was the first launch in the Apollo program and the first time using the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-4/apollo-4.html
1979 – The NORAD computers detected a massive Soviet Nuclear Strike. Thankfully raw data from satellites were reviewed along with early warning radar, proving it was a false alarm. A technician had loaded a test tape but failed to switch the system status to “test”. Oops!
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb371/
2004 – The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0. It featured tabbed browsing and a popup blocker.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html
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DTNS 3155 – Up Up and Uber Away
Flying cars is an industry that multiple companies are investing in. Crazy? Or Crazy like a flying fox? Also, Bloomberg’s latest reliable Apple rumors and Logitech cuts functions from some of their old remote controls.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 194
Why Brian saw Thor twice, the last two episodes of Stranger Things, Tom thinks they may have seen the most boring Mr. Robot yet, and Mal finds love on Firefly.
01:18 – Winter Movie Draft 2017
03:26 – Thor: Ragnarok
14:49 – Mr. Robot (304)
23:30 – Stranger Things (208-209)
35:08 – Firefly (Heart of Gold)
Daily Tech Headlines – November 8, 2017
Facebook and Australia team up to fight revenge porn, Apple’s developing an AR headset, Snap gets investment from Tencent.
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Today in Tech History – November 8, 2017
1870 – The US Weather Bureau (someday to become the National Weather Service) issued its first weather warning for a storm on the Great Lakes. It was accurate, but there was no high-pitched beep yet.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/november_8th_1870.php
1887 – German immigrant Emile Berliner patented a successful system of sound recording that used flat disks instead of cylinders. The first versions were made of glass. Talk about your broken records.
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gramophone.htm
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, working in his lab in Wurzburg noticed a strange effect while studying vacuum tubes covered in black cardboard. He eventually saw his own skeleton and went on to publish a paper “On a new kind of rays.” The rays would end up being called X-Rays.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/xray/roentgen.html
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html
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DTNS 3154 – XBAAS XBox As A Service
Waymo goes literally driverless with its cars, a noise-canceling ramen fork, and whether the death of consoles was exaggerated.
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Daily Tech Headlines – November 7, 2017
Waymo goes truly driverless, Amazon ships a fire TV stick international, and Apple caught moving cash offshore.
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