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Daily Tech Headlines – August 4, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 4th, 2017

Security researcher malwaretech arrested, Facebook improves machine translation and China conducts website removal drills.

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Today in Tech History – August 4, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 4th, 2017

1921 – The first facsimile was transmitted by radio across the Atlantic Ocean using the Belinograph invented by Edouard Belin. A message written by C. V. Van Anda, managing editor of The New York Times and addressed to the Matin in Paris, was sent in seven minutes.

http://todayinsci.com/B/Belin_Edouard/Belinogram1921-NYT.htm

1988 – A computer halted an engine test in preparation for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. The flight would be the first since the Challenger explosion in 1986.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/August/4/

2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spaceship launched on its mission to survey the Martian Arctic in search of water, geological discoveries, and evidence of conditions for biological life.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/launch/index.html

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DTNS 3087 – Ransomware Savior Arrested

Daily Tech News Show / August 3rd, 2017

The man who stopped the WannaCry arrested arrested on accusations of building a banking trojan, how to USB charge safely, and Facebook’s fight against falsity.

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#301 – Long Days and Pleasant Nights

Shows/ Sword and Laser / August 3rd, 2017

Hot Pie has a bakery! Ready Player One has a trailer! The Rook has a TV show! This episode has a final word on butterscotch! And the man in black has a gunslinger following him!

Daily Tech Headlines – August 3, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 3rd, 2017

HBO attack compromised some employee info, Facebook tweaks hoax detection, Uber Freight tweaks service for better driver matching.

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Today in Tech History – August 3, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 3rd, 2017

1811 – Elisha Otis was born. He invented a safety brake that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. Thank him every time you get in an elevator.

http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/E-5.htm

1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus became the first watercraft to reach the geographic North Pole. Commanding Officer, Commander William R. Anderson, announced to his crew, “For the world, our country, and the Navy – the North Pole.”

http://www.ussnautilus.org/nautilus/index.shtml

1977 – Tandy Corp of Texas held a New York press conference to announce that it would manufacture the TRS-80.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2010/08/august-3-1977-the-trs-80-personal-computer-goes-on-sale/

1995 – John Romero released the first screenshots of Quake on the Internet. They were 320 x 200 TIFFs.
http://rome.ro/news/2016/6/22/happy-20th-birthday-quake

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DTNS 3086 – Diminishing Results Management

Daily Tech News Show / August 2nd, 2017

IBM makes a 300 TB tape drive, Amazon Echo gets hacked to listen to everything and filmmaker Jon Schiefer tells us his views on DRM, crowdfunding and more.
With Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson and Jon Schiefer.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 181

Cordkillers / August 2nd, 2017

Rick and Morty (301-302), Preacher (206), Game of Thrones (703), Firefly – Bushwhacked, Summer Movie Draft. With special guest Chris Cox.

01:09 – Summer Movie Draft
04:02 – Rick and Morty (301-302)
10:07 – Preacher (206)
14:58 – Game of Thrones (703)
26:36 – Firefly – Bushwhacked

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 1, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 2nd, 2017

Apple earnings look pleasing to investors, Hyperloop One sets a speed record and Firefox has new test features.

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Today in Tech History – August 2, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 2nd, 2017

1870 – The world’s first underground tube railway, (the Met had been the first underground non-tube railway) Tower Subway, opened in London, running from Lower Thames street to Vine Street. It closed after 4 months of operation.

http://books.google.com/books?id=UgcHBtYPYy0C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false

1880 – Parliament officially adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the official time of Great Britain.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/gmt.htm

1902 – Mina Spiegel Rees was born in Ohio and became one of the earliest female computer pioneers. She ran the Office of Naval Research, where she organized work on early computers like the Harvard Mark I.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Rees.html

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