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Today in Tech History – July 23, 2017
1903 – Ford sold its first car to Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago. The two-cylinder Model A was assembled at Mack Avenue Plant in Detroit.
https://corporate.ford.com/history.html
1985 – Commodore introduced the Amiga personal computer at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York’s Lincoln Center. Amiga cost $1,295 and shipped with a base configuration of 256K of RAM.
http://technologizer.com/2010/07/23/amiga/
1996 – The first commercial HDTV signal was broadcast in North Carolina by WRAL channel 32 operating at 100 kilowatts with an antenna 1,750 feet above the ground. 200 members of the press watched the broadcast at WRAL.
http://www.wral.com/wral-tv/story/1069461/
2016 – Russian Fyodor Konyukhov set a new record flying around the world in a balloon from Northan, Australia in 11 days and 6 hours. He broke Steve Fossett’s record by 2 days.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36873594
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Today in Tech History – July 22, 2017
1933 – Wiley Post returned to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes after leaving, becoming the fastest person to circumnavigate the Earth by air and the first to do it solo.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wiley-post-flies-solo-around-the-world
1962 – The first Mariner space probe to Venus had to be destroyed shortly after lift-off because of “improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment.” The error was caused by a missing overbar in the program that must have disappeared during hand transcription.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A16F63C59137B93C1AB178CD85F468685F9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbar
1997 – Apple announced OS 8 for Macintosh computers. It added easier Internet integration and a 3D look to the OS.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/sep97/applesep97.html
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DTNS 3078 – GreyOrange is the new Black
Lyft wants to make its own autonomous car parts, Verizon gets caught throttling video, and an Indian company revolutionizing robots in warehouses.
With Shannon Morse, Tom Merritt and Len Peralta.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (04:55) Lyft expects majority of its rides will be autonomous by 2021
- (07:00) Nintendo files graphical trademarks in European Union
- (08:50) Verizon testing video stream optimization cap at 10Mbps
- (11:15) Office 365 revenue tops traditional Office licensing
- (13:55) Delta using fingerprint as boarding pass at Reagan National airport
- Discussion
- (17:00) Indian robots are marching into the world’s warehouses
- Robot wars: Amazon has Kiva, Alibaba has Geek+, and there’s GreyOrange for the rest – Tech In Asia
- Meet the robots making Amazon even faster – CNET News (video)
- (17:00) Indian robots are marching into the world’s warehouses
- Message of the Day
- (25:05) John Clayton – Experience with Ecobee
- (26:40) Gábor – Hungarian perspective on Net Neutrality
Len Peralta’s “A Gray/Orange Love Story”
Daily Tech Headlines – July 21, 2017
Microsoft strong earnings from cloud, Alexa comes to Android and Lyft gets into autonomous car building.
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Today in Tech History – July 21, 2017
1975 – Xerox announced its withdrawal from computer mainframe manufacturing. The company did indicate it would continue activities in other computer-related businesses like computer disk drives, serial printers, and apparently giving away secrets to companies like Apple and Microsoft.
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/profess/SDSigma7.htm
2002 – WorldCom filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history. It was the number two long-distance phone company, at a time when that still meant something. It would end up changing its name back to MCI, and its remains exists as Verizon’s business division.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/19/news/worldcom_bankruptcy/
2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, Runway 15, ending the US space shuttle missions.
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East Meets West 358 – AI AIn’t AIfrAId
Talking about what to talk about, the inability to have rational discussions, blurring of demography and geography, the psychology of uncertainty, will automation disrupt jobs.
DTNS 3077a – A Shot In The Dark Web
Microsoft builds Cortana into a thermostat, Rwanda uses low power networking to stop poachers, and Elon Musk promises more things.
With Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (02:40) Europol confirms AlphaBay and Hansa dark Web marketplace takedowns
- (04:20) Intel reportedly shut down wearables effort, shifted to augmented reality
- (07:40) iOS and Android patched against Broadcom WiFi chip vulnerability
- (10:35) Akagera National Park can monitor animals, visitors in real time
- (14:30) Elon Musk claims “verbal govt approval” to build NYC-DC Hyperloop
- Discussion
Action News – The Game of Television News
Password Managers for Newbies – DTNS WEEKLY TECH UPDATE 07/20/2017
#300 – Don’t Pee in the Gene Pool
Hey kids, Nnedi Okorafor has an HBO show coming, EW and Tor have LOADS of book recommendations and we love the world created by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Daily Tech Headlines – July 20, 2017
Intel off of wearables, Cortana comes to a thermostat and Rwanda uses low power networking to stop poachers.
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