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Today in Tech History – December 17, 2017
1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.
http://edison.rutgers.edu/list.htm
1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.
http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/wrights/1903.html
1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.
http://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/
2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/html5-cr
2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered, causing noticeable dips in Internet traffic as fans flocked to theaters and avoided spoilers.
http://www.newsweek.com/star-wars-bring-european-nerds-offline-temporarily-406709?rx=us
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Today in Tech History – December 16, 2017
1935 – A Time magazine article described the use of the pattern of capillaries in the retina as a means of identification called eye prints. Hello biometrics!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755453,00.html
1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/labpages/labpg3.html
2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.
https://creativecommons.org/2002/12/16/creativecommonsunveilsmachinereadablecopyrightlicenses/
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DTNS 3180 – AIM-Less
Vice begins planning to subvert the ISPs, the cryptocurrency bubble continues to inflate and TVs to watch at CES and beyond.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Rob Reid, Patrick Norton and Len Peralta.
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 15, 2017
Amazon, Apple and Gogole playing nicer, Facebook adds a snooze button and Google rolls out light beam internet in India.
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Today in Tech History – December 15, 2017
1953 – Dudley Buck entered the idea for the Cryotron into his MIT notebook. The cryotron is a four-terminal superconductive computer component.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Cryotron
1965 – Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-104A
1994 – Netscape shipped version 1.0 of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.
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DTNS 3179 – Net Neutrality: What now?
We talk about what will happen next after the FCC vote to reclassify Internet and what you can do about it. Plus, Disney is buying most of Fox.
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- News You Should Know
- (00:45) The FCC just repealed net neutrality | TechCrunch
- (01:15) Snapchat launches [AR] platform Lens Studio | TechCrunch
- (01:35) Amazon to start selling Apple TV…Chromecast | cnet
- More Top Stories
- (02:05) Facebook pushes pre-roll ads on Watch… | TechCrunch
- (04:05) Disney’s Fox acquisition means the end of Hulu… | Recode
- (07:25) Microsoft looks to make Bing results smarter… | TechCrunch
- (09:30) Google adds price tracking and deals… | TechCrunch
- (11:00) Pandora Introduces New Free Premium Trial… | Variety
- Discussion (13:50)
- The Truth About Net Neutrality | Tom Merritt
- The FCC just repealed net neutrality. What happens next? | TechCrunch
- Goodbye, net neutrality… | Ars Technica
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- Messages of the Day
- (25:10) Mark – Digital Companies Apologizing
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 14, 2017
Disney buys Fox, Bing gets some AI smarts and Microsoft adds native OpenSSH.
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Today in Tech History – December 14, 2017
1900 – German physicist Max Planck published his theory that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as “quantum.” And quantum physics was born.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-birth-of-quantum-theory
1972 – Eugene Cernan ended a 7 hour and 15 minute EVA, climbed back aboard the Apollo 17 Lunar Module and became the last person to walk on the moon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/14/newsid_4104000/4104387.stm
1996 – John Tu and David Sun, the founders of Kingston Technology took $100 million from the sale of their privately held enterprise and gave it to employees, a spontaneous gesture to those who had helped make the memory-module company a market leader.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1214kingston-technology-christmas-bonus/
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Briefly What I thought of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
This will not have spoilers. However it will tell you what I feel about the movie. You have been cautioned.
The Last Jedi is a fun movie. It has epic moments.
It also has some weird things. But overall the weird is outweighed by the awesome.
It is well-paced. There is a lot more that is new than there was in Force Awakens and yet it has well-executed nods to the previous story.
Is it the best Star Wars yet? Arguably not. Depending on who you are you can make solid arguments that Empire or Even Force Awakens are better for various reasons. But this is a solid entry in the top 3 if not at the top of all the Star Wars movies made to date.
I had a great time. My expectations were often subverted. Characters were put in impossible situations and yet prevailed (very much like A New Hope in that way). And in the end I felt bonded more to the characters old and new.
If there is a criticism it might be too light-hearted at times. I’m also critical of the answers to some big questions we did and did not get. But that’s for a spoilery conversation.
Overall I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt it was: Amazing.