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Daily Tech Headlines – September 28, 2017
Amazon announces new Echos, Facebook out to help blood donors in India, and Anthony Levandowsky, formerly of Uber, has started an AI religion.
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Today in Tech History – September 28, 2017
1998 – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer passed Netscape Navigator as the Web browser with the greatest market share, according to a report from the International Data Corporation.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/09/0928ie-beats-netscape/
2008 – SpaceX launched the Falcon 1, the first ever private spacecraft to enter orbit.
http://www.spacex.com/press/2012/12/19/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-orbit
2011 – Amazon shook up the tablet market, announcing the the Amazon Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet for $199.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/28/technology/amazon_tablet/index.htm
2015 – NASA announced definitive signs of liquid water on Mars had been found near the equator. Dr. Alfred S. McEwen and other scientists published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, describing the direct identification of water in the the form of hydration salts.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars
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DTNS 3125 – Amazon Announces New Echo Echo Echo Echo….
Amazon unleashes new Echo products, Apple explains how Face ID works and Twitter doubles its character limit.
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- News You Should Know
- Twitter trials expanding tweets…to 280 | TechCrunch
- Google Makes Big Concession in Europe | Fortune
- Google pulls YouTube off the…Echo Show | The Verge
- More Top Stories
- Amazon debuts…slew of new Echo devices, too | Ars Technica
- Apple, Fitbit, others work with FDA… | Ars Technica
- IPhone X to use…anti-spoof Face ID tech | BBC
- Apple explains how Face ID learns… | The Verge
- Comcast…introduces Xfinity Instant TV… | engadget
- Discussion
- Twitter trials expanding tweets…to 280 | TechCrunch
- Twitter workarounds give anyone 280 characters… | engadget
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- Natron – Great Cheap Phones
- Kevin – August Lock
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 27, 2017
Firefox Quantum is twice as fast, Twitter extends character limit to 280, YouTube blocks its videos from Amazon Echo Show.
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Today in Tech History – September 27, 2017
1922 – Scientists at the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory near Washington, DC, demonstrated radar by showing that if a ship passed through a radio wave broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/classic/world-war-i-flight-timeline7.htm
1983 – Richard Stallman announced the GNU project which aimed at the time to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
1996 – Kevin Mitnick was indicted on charges he broke into the systems of major software companies, then transferred stolen material to computers at USC via the Internet. Seems prosaic today, but was unheard of at the time.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-27/local/me-47980_1_computer-hacker
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East Meets West 360 – White People are Like–
Tom tries to explain white people to Roger.
DTNS 3124 – Fly Me to the Dune
Firefox gets faster, Plex gets newsier, and Dubai tests self-flying cars.
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 26, 2017
Microsoft announces new Office dates, macOS High Sierra password vulnerability uncovered, Amazon adds Alexa to its music app.
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Today in Tech History – September 26, 2017
1960 – For the first time, a US presidential debate was televised. Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy debated in Chicago and were perceived differently by those who listened on radio versus those who watched on television.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/LYj_UVJ9gEyA5U9buPW8Hg.aspx
1983 – 17-year-old Neal Patrick, of the hacking group 414s testified before the US House of Representatives about computer break-ins and how they might be stopped.
1991 – Eight people entered Biosphere 2, an airtight replica of the Earth’s biosphere in Oracle, Arizona. They left exactly two years later in 1993. Results of the experiment are still controversial.
http://blogs.britannica.com/2011/09/years-glass-biosphere-2-mission/
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