Daily Tech Headlines – February 6, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 6th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple HomePod reviews are mixed, tablet sales decline for 13th straight quarter, France cracks down on smartphones while driving.

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Today in Tech History – February 6, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 6th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1957 – MIT introduced the cryotron, the first practical demonstration of superconductivity, invented by Dudley Allen Buck. The Cryotron paved the way for the integrated circuit which used semiconductivity.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201202/physicshistory.cfm

1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed a patent for miniaturized electronic circuits, the first patent for what we now call integrated circuits.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=O89pAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1971 – Apollo 14’s Lunar Module lifted off from the moon returning astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell to the Command Module. Shepard had made extra history by becoming the first human to hit a golf ball on the moon.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/as14/a14sum.htm

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DTNS 3213 – Tech Creator’s Remorse

Daily Tech News Show / February 5th, 2018

A group of former Google and Facebook employees have banded together to fight what they see are the ill effects of technology on the human condition. Will this put them at odds with their former employers and industry they helped build? Plus Apple, Cisco and Allianz are teaming up to offer cyber insurance to business that use equipment from both companies and Google will 3rd party developers access the Visual Core processor in the Pixel 2 smartphone.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang.

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DTNS LABS – Mailbag – The mailbag opens

Daily Tech News Show / February 5th, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoIt’s the first a of a series of regular dips into the DTNS feedback with Sarah Lane! She reads both your questions and answers from the audience.

Can you answer a question read on the show? Send us an email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 5, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / February 5th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel’s AR glasses, Broadcom still after Qualcomm, cell phone radiation still not proved dangerous.

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Today in Tech History – February 5, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 5th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1850 – The first US patent for push-key operation of a calculating machine was issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, NY.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7074

1944 – At Bletchley Park in Great Britain, the Colossus Mk I attacked its first Lorenz-encrypted message. Enigma had been cracked but Lorenz was a tougher cipher used in communications between Hitler and his generals in World War II.

http://www.zdnet.com/colossus-celebrates-70th-anniversary-at-national-museum-of-computing-7000026002/

1974 – The US space probe Mariner 10 returned the first close-up images of Venus and became the first spacecraft to use a gravity assist from one planet to help it reach another.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-085A

1999 – Victoria’s Secret’s online fashion show became the first major webcast, attracting an estimated 1.5 million viewers worldwide. Proving even back then, the Internet is for shopping.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/05/vicweb.idg/

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Today in Tech History – February 4, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 4th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1890 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the first quadruplex telegraph, which could send two messages simultaneously in each direction. One message consisted of an electric signal of varying strength, while the second was a signal of varying polarity.

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Quadruplex_Telegraph
http://www.google.com/patents?id=SV9BAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1998 – Noël Godin, a Belgian who made a practice of pie-ing rich and famous people struck a pie against the face of Bill Gates. Gates did not press charges.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-207832.html

2004 – Mark Zuckerberg and a few other guys at Harvard launched TheFacebook so Harvard students can look up and hook up with each other. They would eventually expand the service to the world. And drop the “the”.

https://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=info

2014 – Microsoft named 22-year employee Satya Nadella its new CEO replacing Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates stepped down as Chairman of the Board at the same time and was replaced by John Thompson.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04newspr.aspx

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Today in Tech History – February 3, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 3rd, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1879 – Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb to 700 people at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5197568&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5176125%2F5197544%2F05197568.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5197568

1966 – The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed safely on the moon in the Ocean of Storms. It was the first lunar soft landing and first transmission of photographic data from the Moon to Earth.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-006A

2011 – The Number Resource Organization announced that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses was fully depleted. The IANA allocated the last of the blocks equally between the five Regional Internet Registries.

http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted

2014 – Facebook launched its ‘Paper’ app for iOS in the US. Paper provided a more magazine like format for viewing Facebook content.

http://recode.net/2014/01/30/meet-paper-facebooks-answer-to-browsing-and-creating-mobile-media/

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DTNS 3212a – Don’t Put Mouth On My Words

Daily Tech News Show / February 2nd, 2018

We explore the link between AI generated fake porn videos and the future of news and facts. Plus Kaz Hirai steps down as CEO of Sony and CEO Susan Wojcicki explains what YouTube wants.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Nicole Lee.

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