Today in Tech History – March 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 20th, 2018

1800 – Alessandro Volta dated a letter announcing his invention of the voltaic pile to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, London. We’ve been dealing with battery life ever since.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200603/history.cfm

1886 – The first alternating current power plant in the United States began providing power to Main Street in Great Barrington, Mass.

http://edisontechcenter.org/GreatBarrington.html

1916 – The Annalen der Physik received a paper titled ‘Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie’ by Albert Einstein. “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” changed physics and technology dramatically.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.19163540702/abstract

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DTNS 3242 – Facebook: Get the Mops

Daily Tech News Show / March 19th, 2018

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower spills the beans on how the company used profile data from millions Facebook users without permission and worked with political parties it to win elections. Is this behavior the result of criminal intent, un-ethical people, hazards of social networking, corporate ambivalence or all the above?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lance Ulanoff.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 19, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 19th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook suspends data analytics company, Appel may be making its own displays, HTC releases new version of Vive VR headset.

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Today in Tech History – March 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 19th, 2018

1474 – The Venetian Senate issued a Statute on Industrial Brevets that is widely considered the first patent law. Patents had been issued before, often at the whims of monarchs, but this statute codified the practice and set out a standard 10-year term.

http://books.google.com/books?id=L0hhubDCGksC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=who+makes+any+new+and+ingenious+contrivance+not+made+heretofore+in+our+dominion&source=web&ots=fA-8X6pIYT&sig=jI3fsoVOkEz7egRqsN8WPsE5V5U&hl=en#v=onepage&q=who%20makes%20any%20new%20and%20ingenious%20contrivance%20not%20made%20heretofore%20in%20our%20dominion&f=false
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venetian_Patent_Statute_1474.png

1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened. It is the world’s largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/on-this-day/2010/03/on-this-day-in-history-sydney-harbour-bridge-opens/

1991 – US patent No. 5,000,000 was issued to microbiologist Lonnie. O. Ingram of the University of Florida for a process of turning garbage into fuel. His method depended on the creation of a new species of bacterium genetically formed from two other bacteria.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5000000.PN.&OS=PN/5000000&RS=PN/5000000

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DTNS LABS – Mailbag Episode 2

Daily Tech News Show / March 18th, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoTom, Sarah, and esteemed guest Iyaz Akhtar tackle the latest emails from our mailbag!

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Today in Tech History – March 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 18th, 2018

1931 – Jacob Schick began marketing his second electric razor. His first hadn’t caught on because of the bulky motor. This time the more practical design became a hit.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/march-18/

1965 – The Voskhod 2 launched and on the second orbit Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left the capsule (on purpose) for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-022A

1987 – Thousands of physicists crowded a ballroom at the New York Hilton at the meeting of the American Physical Society to hear speakers talk on high-temperature superconductivity. The session started in the evening and ran until 3:15 AM earning the nickname “Woodstock of Physics.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/03/science/power-line-makes-use-of-a-miracle-of-physics.html

2015 – Sony launched its Internet TV service called PlayStation Vue in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. For $50 a month subscribers got around 50 channels plus the ability to record shows in the cloud for up to 28 days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/business/media/sonys-playstation-vue-is-introduced-in-3-cities.html

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Today in Tech History – March 17, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 17th, 2018

1948 – William Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina. His stories are credited with launching cyberpunk literature, named after the phrase he used in the story “Burning Chrome”.

https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233297/William-Gibson

1953 – Australian researcher David Warren came up with the idea for a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. His ARL Flight Memory Unit would eventually be known as the Black Box.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4429502/Unexplained-crashes-inspire-the-first-black-box–March-17–1953

1958 – The United States launched the Vanguard 1 satellite, achieving the highest altitude of any man-made vehicle to that time.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/accomplishments/rockets/vanguard-project/

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DTNS 3241 – Lyfting Subscriptions

Daily Tech News Show / March 16th, 2018

Lyft is trialling a subscription plans for high frequency users. Is this a potential model for other ride hailing services and could this be another alternative to private car ownership and public transit?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Iyaz Akhtar.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 16, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 16th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500US accuses Russia of hacking power grids, Plattsburgh NY imposes moratorium on bitcoin mining, Lyft tests subscription model.

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Today in Tech History – March 16, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 16th, 2018

1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.

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

1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online and would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/everquest/

1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/history.html

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