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Daily Tech Headlines – August 31, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 31st, 2017

LG finally unveils its new flagship phone, Zipline becomes the biggest drone delivery service int he world, and everybody has new wearables.

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Today in Tech History – August 31, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 31st, 2017

1897 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera, the forerunner of the motion picture film projector.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug31.html

1994 – Stockholders approved the merger of Aldus Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. It united the two driving forces behind desktop publishing software. Aldus Pagemaker became Adobe Pagemaker.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/01/business/company-news-adobe-and-aldus-stockholders-approve-merger.html

1997 – The developer release of Apple’s new OS, code name Grail1Z4 / Titan1U was released. It was known formally as Rhapsody and would evolve into OS X.

http://www.rhapsodyos.org/misc/rhap_timeline/Rhapsody_Timeline_1.html

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DTNS 3106 – Don’t Brick My Heart

Daily Tech News Show / August 30th, 2017

Cortana teams up with Alexa, iPhone may dump the home button and an inconcenient pacemaker firmware upgrade.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 185

Cordkillers / August 30th, 2017

Rick and Morty (306), Game of Thrones (707), Firefly (Our Mrs. Reynolds), Summer Movie Draft.

01:03 – Summer Movie Draft
03:57 – Triage (Your emails to cordkillers@gmail.com)
05:49 – Rick and Morty (306)
11:44 – Game of Thrones (707)
25:56 – Firefly (Our Mrs. Reynolds)

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 30, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 30th, 2017

Alexa and Cortana team up, iPhone may lose the home button, and new laptops announced at the IFA conference in Berlin.

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Today in Tech History – August 30, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 30th, 2017

1885 – Gottlieb Daimler received a patent for adding an internal combustion engine to a bicycle to make the first gasoline-driven motorcycle.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/08/0830daimler-first-true-motorcycle/

1907 – John Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He would grow up to pioneer the design and construction of ENIAC along with Presper Eckert as well as contribute to the creation of BINAC and UNIVAC.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mauchly.html

1963 – A direct line of communication between the leaders of the USA and USSR, dubbed “The Hotline” began operation.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/aug-30-1963-communications-hot-line-connects-soviet-and-u-s-heads-of-state/

1969 – BBN delivered the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) to the Network Measurements Center at UCLA. It was built from a Honeywell DDP 516 computer with 12K of memory, and would be used in October to make the first Internet connection with Stanford. Graduate students Vinton Cerf, Steve Crocker, Bill Naylor, Jon Postel, and Mike Wingfield were charged with installation.

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm

1982 – A copyright was issued to 16-year-old V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai for a computer program he called “EMAIL,” short for “electronic mail.” While Ayyadurai may not be considered the inventor of email he definitely deserves credit for establishing the name.

http://allthingsd.com/20120904/email-turns-30/

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East Meets West 359 – Flood of Emotions

East Meets West/ Shows / August 29th, 2017

Houston hurricanes, Do we need aliens to bring us together? Why we localize tragedies.

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DTNS 3105 – Google Flexes Its ARCore

Daily Tech News Show / August 29th, 2017

Google’s ARCore and the state of augmented reality, plus Apple’s fight for 4K and Enterprise success.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 29, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 29th, 2017

NYPD ditches 36,000 Windows Phones, Apple teams up with Accenture for custom business app design and movie studios want Apple to charge more for 4K movies.

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Today in Tech History – August 29, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 29th, 2017

1831 – Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, which is used in power generation and power transmission by generators, transformers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200108/history.cfm

1965 – Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, orbiting 100 miles above the Earth in Gemini 5 talked with aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter in Sealab II, 205 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It happened to be Cooper’s wedding anniversary.
http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/cooper.htm

1990 – The British Computer Misuse Act went into effect. The Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers.
http://usir.salford.ac.uk/15815/7/MacEwan_Crim_LR.pdf

1997 – Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded Kibble Inc. The service initially let you rent individual DVDs by mail without late fees. There was no subscription service and no streaming. And the service was later renamed Netflix.

http://money.cnn.com/quote/profile/profile.html?symb=NFLX
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312504128377/dex31.htm

2003 – Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis started Skype service, the Voice over Internet Provider that would go on to dominate the space.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/skypes-secrets/

2005 – Music service Pandora left preview and became open for all to use.
http://blog.pandora.com/2005/08/29/pandora_for_eve/

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