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1838 – In the small town of Chirlitz of the Austrian Empire Ernst Mach was born. His work in aerodynamics and supersonic speeds, led to the unit of measurement that bears his name. He would die one day after his birthday in 1916.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ernst-mach/
1908 -Dr Lee de Forest received a patent for “Space Telegraphy” which described a three-element vacuum tube later called the triode, which could amplify feeble electric currents, and proved especially useful for radio reception. Sorry it was not about Moon telegrams.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=6i1vAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1977 – The Enterprise space shuttle orbiter prototype made the first of five “captive-inactive” flight tests, testing structural integrity and performance handling, while attached to the top of a 747 jumbo jet.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/multimedia/gallery/enterprise/12-04-20.html
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1965 – The Ranger 8 probe launched on its mission to photograph the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. The photos paved the way to select the area as the site of the first manned Moon landing.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-010A
1996 – World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue in game 6 winning the match 4-2. He would lose the next match a year later.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kasparov-defeats-chess-playing-computer
2000 – Microsoft released Windows 2000, the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and the final Windows release to display the “Windows NT” designation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0
http://news.microsoft.com/2000/02/17/windows-2000-now-broadly-available/
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Hey the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us! Also Firefly is coming back as books. And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Plus StoryBundle has an awesome set of books called Black Narratives! And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Oh and the Locus Awards are open for voting. That one… you can’t vote for us. But you can vote for us in the Hugos.
Google removes “view image” button from search, Intel helps with a more practical quantum computer chip, and an Australian cyborg researcher loses the use of his embedded transit pass.
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1880 – 30 engineers from eight states met in the New York editorial offices of the American Machinist to found the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
https://www.asme.org/about-asme/who-we-are/engineering-history
1968 – The first-ever 911 call was placed by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite from Haleyville City Hall to US Rep. Tom Bevill at the city’s police station.
http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/articles/feb%2016.pdf
1978 – After a particularly harsh January gave them plenty of time for programming, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess completed the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. It was the first BBS.
http://pcmuseum.tripod.com/bbs.htm
2016 – Magistrate Sheri Pym of the US District Court of Central California ordered Apple to assist the US FBI in cracking the password on an iPhone 5C. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s intent to resist the order writing, “Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.” The FBI eventually accessed the data without Apple’s assistance.
http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf
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Twitter being streaming live local news broadcasts alongside its timeline. Will it work and will news coverage change to adapt to it? Plus reports of iOS 11’s interface crashing and researchers at MIT have developed a low powered high speed neural network chip.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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New Samsung Notebook 9s, Intel opens up its bounty program, super low power sensor communication.
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1897 – Ferdinand Braun published a paper in the journal Annalen der Physik und Chemie describing his “Braun tube”, the first cathode-ray oscilloscope, which paved the way for the modern CRT.
http://www.radarworld.org/history.pdf
1946 – A few days after its first public demonstration, the first practical all-digital computer, ENIAC was formally dedicated.
http://www.ushistory.org/more/eniac/public.htm
1995 – The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick on charges of wire fraud and breaking into the computer systems of several major corporations.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/02/feb-15-1995-mitnick-arrested/
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IBM produced a study showing consumers value security over convenience. Is this a trend, and if so will this lead to greater demands on companies to secure their online services? Plus Qualcomm has released its X24 LTE Modem and Snapchat rolls out analytics tools for its biggest creators.
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