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Daily Tech Headlines – March 12, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 12th, 2018

Bose announces AR glasses, Apple acquires digital newsstand app Texture, Elon Musk says pedestrians will have priority underground.

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Today in Tech History – March 12, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 12th, 2018

1790 – John Frederic Daniell was born. He would grow up to invent the Daniell cell, a battery that supplied an even current during continuous operation, thus making battery power practical.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151016/John-Frederic-Daniell

1889 – Almon B. Strowger of Kansas City filed his patent for the first automatic telephone exchange.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq2zRb4FMgYC&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&dq=march+12+1889+strowger&source=bl&ots=TCfyPya_By&sig=CCNHRMxK71BWOcNhQpP7dncGshY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj90-_355HZAhWiqlQKHeCBDyUQ6AEIPTAI#v=onepage&q=march%2012%201889%20strowger&f=false

1923 – Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated the Phonofilm for the press. It was the first motion picture with a sound-on-film track.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yV4nAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA115&lpg=RA3-PA115&dq=march+12+1923+lee+de+forest&source=bl&ots=A_yIgcZUDF&sig=RYXpo6cFuQFcTDpOodOCiWrTRsU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0MQMU6iJKdjmoAS6qoL4AQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=march%2012%201923%20lee%20de%20forest&f=false

1989 – Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing an “information management” system that became the foundation of the World Wide Web. He called it the Mesh at the time.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/

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DTNS LABS – BOT TAKES with Veronica Belmont

Daily Tech News Show / March 11th, 2018

The first of Veronica’s weekly-ish roundup of bot news.

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Today in Tech History – March 11, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 11th, 2018

105 – Ts’ai Lun demonstrated his process for making paper to the Han emperor in China. He probably didn’t invent it, but he certainly turned it into an industry for the first time. And the industry still survives 20 centuries later even in the face of the computers that plot its doom.

http://www.historychannel.com.au/classroom/day-in-history/481/paper-invented

1985 – The Southern New England Telephone Company turned on ConnNet, the nation’s first local, public packet-switching network. Customers could access CompuServ, NewsNet and other services at a blistering 4,800 to 56,000 bits per second. The service’s X.25 protocol went obsolete in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet Protocol.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oVnVdSTcPbAC&pg=PT146&lpg=PT146&dq=connnet+1985+southern+new+england+telephone+x.25&source=bl&ots=72T_A7qK_4&sig=f_SUUr-etmXoUQ1RZZ6NXniSj1M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W4EyUd7PIOTUigKC8oHoDA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg

2011 – Apple began selling the iPad 2, a thinner version of the first iPad, that also included a camera.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/10iPad-2-Arrives-Tomorrow.html

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Today in Tech History – March 10, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 10th, 2018

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell spoke the immortal words “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” over a telephone in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant from the next room. It is widely considered the first instance of someone using technology when they bloody well could have just got up and spoke to someone in person. It is also widely considered the first phone call.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar10.html

1891 – Almon B. Strowger was issued a US patent for his electromechanical switch to automate a telephone exchange. Strowger wasn’t the first to think of of automatic switching but he was the first to make a practical switch.

http://www.ospmag.com/issue/article/052008-Lies

2000 -The Nasdaq hit 5,048.62, the highest point of the dot-com boom. The bust began the next day.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/03/10/markets/markets_newyork/

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DTNS 3236 – You have the right/To repair/Electronnnnnnnnnics

Daily Tech News Show / March 9th, 2018

California has become the 18th state to propose “Right to Repair” legislation. What are the implications and does the consumer really benefit? Plus Waymo has started a pilot program to test autonomous semi-truck technology in Atlanta, and Twitter is working on way for users to verify themselves.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Brian Brushwood.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 9, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 9th, 2018

Barack Obama in talks to produce series for Netflix, Android users have highest loyalty rate, Twitter wants users to verify themselves.

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Today in Tech History – March 9, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 9th, 2018

1948 – The University of California at Berkeley and the Atomic Energy Commission announced the artificial production of mesons using the 184-inch cyclotron at the university’s Radiation Laboratory.

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1981/81fepi3.html

1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launched, carrying a human dummy and and the dog Chernushka. It completed 1 orbit and was successfully recovered upon return. Yes, the dog made it back unharmed.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1961-008A

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-133 made its final landing after 39 flights.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/mar/HQ_11-068_Discovery_Lands.html

2015 – Apple and HBO announced a new Internet-only streaming version of HBO called HBO Now would launch in early April exclusively on Apple products including the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Apple also announced the Apple Watch would come April 24.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/03/09HBO-NOW-Premiering-in-April.html

2016 – In the first of 5 games, DeepMind’s AlphaGo machine intelligence defeated 18-time Go champion Lee See-dol in Seoul, Korea.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11184362/google-alphago-go-deepmind-result

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DTNS 3235 – Real Facts About Fake News

Daily Tech News Show / March 8th, 2018

MIT researchers discover false news travels faster and farther on Twitter than factual news, Amazon explains why Alexa has been uttering creepy laughs, and Flippy the burger flipping robot gets turned off.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 8, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / March 8th, 2018

MoviePass updates its iOS app after location tracking confusion, new alliance seeks to unify smart camera data, Oculus updates software after Rift headsets stopped working.

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