We talk with author Daniel H. Wilson about his book, Clockwork Dynasty and why we might not need to fear the robots.
Daily Tech Headlines – August 10, 2017
Facebook Launches Original Video Shows, Kaspersky withdraws antitrust complaint against Microsoft, Consumer Reports withdraws recommendations for Surface laptops and tablets.
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Today in Tech History – August 10, 2017
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan set sail to find that pesky trade route that Columbus was looking for, and instead circumnavigated the globe. Well, at least his ship did.
1990 – The Magellan space probe, named after Ferdinand Magellan, reached Venus, beginning its mission to map the planet’s surface.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html
2004 – The iTunes Music Store library passed the mark of 1,000,000 songs available.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/08/10iTunes-Music-Store-Catalog-Tops-One-Million-Songs.html
2015 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a new company called Alphabet had been created to oversee a slimmed down Google as well as other companies Google owned like Calico, Nest and more. Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the new Google. Alphabet continued to be traded under the stock tickers GOOG and GOOGL.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-alphabet.html
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DTNS 3091 – Flash Point
Intel bets big on self-driving cars, esports might go Olympic and some myths about the death of Flash busted.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (03:40) Tencent and Amazon invested in Essential PH-1 Phone
- (04:40) Disney plans to launch ESPN, Disney/Pixar streaming services
- (10:10) Intel will build fleet of 100 level 4 autonomous cars
- (11:05) 2024 Olympics may include competitive video games
- (13:55) Sony developed educational record blockchain
- Discussion
- (16:00) Animation and Flash in this golden age of televised animated
- Message of the Day
- (27:25) Joe the Pilot – pilot shortage
- (29:00) Mike – organ donation
It’s Spoilerin’ Time 182
The Dark Tower, Rick and Morty (303), Preacher (207), Game of Thrones (704), Firefly (“Shindig”).
01:00 – Summer Movie Draft
03:25 – The Dark Tower
13:44 – Rick and Morty (303)
17:12 – Preacher (207)
22:17 – Game of Thrones (704)
37:04 – Firefly – “Shindig”
Daily Tech Headlines – August 9, 2017
Disney buys BAMTech will end Netflix deal, Apple to launch three iPhones at once in September, Archive.org blocked in India.
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Today in Tech History – August 9, 2017
1859 – US Patent no. 25,076 was issued to Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass. for the first escalator-type moving staircase.
http://www.google.com/patents/US25076
1927 – Computer pioneer Marvin Minsky was born in New York City. Minsky grew up to become a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence research and wrote the book “The Society of Mind.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/384568/Marvin-Minsky
1995 – Netscape Communications staged an IPO. Shares opened at $28 and shot up to $75 per share in one day, becoming one of the indicators of the beginning of the dot-com boom.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4792365
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DTNS 3090 – Trender’s Game
Google fires an engineer, France and Germany team up on US tech company tax avoidance, and why we overestimate progress in two years and underestimate ten. With Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt.
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- Breaking News
- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- Google fires engineer who criticized diversity policies
- Fired Google memo writer draws jeers, cheers and a job offer – Reuters
- Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech – recode
- Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google – Gizmodo
- The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo – The Atlantic
- The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond – Quillette
- France, Germany among countries closing tax loopholes
- Ming-Chi Kuo updates iPhone release expectations
- Google Pixel 2 leaks allege curved glass, dual flash
- HBO attackers release more internal data, 3-day deadline
- Google fires engineer who criticized diversity policies
- Discussion
- We tend to tend to over estimate what can be achieved in 2 years and underestimate what can be done in 10
- Message of the Day
- Rolando – Mailvelope
Daily Tech Headlines – August 8, 2017
Google fires engineer who wrote critical memo, Intel announced 18-core consumer processor, IBM’s big advance in deep learning.
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Today in Tech History – August 8, 2017
1876 – Thomas Edison received a US patent for a mimeograph, which combined with an invention by A. B. Dick led to the first widely successful mimeograph machine.
http://museumofprinting.org/pdfs/MOPWinter07.pdf
1908 – For the first time in public, Wilbur Wright showed off the Wright Brothers’ flying machine at the racecourse in Le Mans, France. French doubts about the Wright Brothers’ claims to flight were put to rest for the time being.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/1908-the-year-the-airplane-went-public-8791602/?no-ist
2007 – Barbara Morgan became the first educator to safely reach space on the US. Space Shuttle Endeavour.
http://idahoptv.org/productions/specials/barbaramorgan/2007Aug8.cfm
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