Daily Tech Headlines – February 14, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 14th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Snapchat offers new analytics to creators, Qualcomm’s X24 LTE modem claims 2gbps, Seti blames crypto mining for GPU shortage.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 207 – Black Mirror wrap-up, Altered Carbon, Counterpart

Cordkillers / February 14th, 2018

Brian’s got words about Altered Carbon, Counterpart gets a heart, and we round out the back-half of the new Black Mirror season.

00:58 – Altered Carbon (101-102, Brian’s take)
03:49 – Black Mirror (404 – Hang the DJ)
07:19 – Black Mirror (405 – Metalhead)
09:16 – Black Mirror (406 – Black Museum)
12:41 – Countertpart (104)
21:29 – Deadwood (108)

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Today in Tech History – February 14, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 14th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company merged with its subsidiary and took the subsidiary’s name, International Business Machines Corporation. Yes it was later shortened to IBM.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/faq_0000001707.html

1989 – The Department of Defense put the NAVSTAR II-1 into orbit, the first of 24 satellites that would make up the global positioning system.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1989-013A

2005 – The domain name YouTube.com was registered. It would eventually become the dominant place to share videos on the Internet.

http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/youtube-birthday/

2011 – IBM’s Watson, a computer system, competed against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson cleaned up, winning $77,147 to Mr. Jennings’s $24,000 and Mr. Rutter’s $21,600.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/17jeopardy-watson.html?pagewanted=all

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DTNS 3219 – Blade Cuts Through PC Game Streaming

Daily Tech News Show / February 13th, 2018

French company Blade hopes to up end the Gaming PC market with their cloud based remote gaming PC service. Does it live up to the hype? Plus ARM unveils its new processor designs for object detection and machine learning and Harvard and MIT are offering classes in AI ethics.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 13, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 13th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google unveils AMP stories for publishers, Microsoft will support public blockchains through its Authenticator app, Snapchat redesign outrages user base.

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Today in Tech History – February 13, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 13th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1895 – French patent No. 245,032 was filed for appareil servant à l’obtention et à la vision des épreuves chrono-photographiques, AKA the Cinématographe, a combined motion-picture camera and projector.

http://books.google.com/books?id=WVVX4NHS8TwC&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=french+patent+cinematographe+245,032&source=bl&ots=xDfRtz4MgE&sig=Eog12dLJYTYM_xx9YrCq3rkgUJI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sn8xT4TJK66NigLk7qSVAw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=french%20patent%20cinematographe%20245%2C032&f=false

1946 – ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) the first practical, all-electronic computer was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electronics. The New York Times carried the report the next day.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/courses/BIB/eniac.pdf

2001 – Microsoft gave the first public look at their new version of Windows, called Windows XP, formerly codenamed Whistler.

http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/02/13/technology/microsoft/

2002 – The first version of Microsoft’s .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET.

https://news.microsoft.com/2002/02/13/microsoft-launches-xml-web-services-revolution-with-visual-studio-net-and-net-framework/

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DTNS 3218 – Facebook: All the Kids Aren’t Doing It

Daily Tech News Show / February 12th, 2018

With Apple revamping the iOS development cycle to focus more on quality control and reliability issues we examine the differences between Apple’s and Google’s approach to OS development. Plus the number of younger Facebook appears to be dropping and Uber is making six-hour breaks mandatory for drivers who’ve driven 12 hours straight.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – 02/12/2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 12th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple changes iOS development cycle, Android may work with phones that have notches and Facebook getting less popular with younger users.

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Today in Tech History – February 12, 2018

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

Today in Tech History logo1877 – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for the first time in public at the Salem Lyceum Hall. The demonstration ended with the sending of the first telephone news dispatch which was received by the Boston Globe.

http://www.salemweb.com/tales/lyceum.shtml

1973 – Along Interstate 71 in Ohio, the first metric distance road signs to be erected in the US were put in place. They informed of the distance between Columbus and Cleveland and Columbus and Cincinnati.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/12/loc_ohiodate0212.html

2001 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on 433 Eros after transmitting 69 close up pictures. It became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

http://near.jhuapl.edu/

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