We’re happy for Chuck Wendig and sad for the passing of Roy Dotrice and Julian May. And we’re also debating whether side conversations are a good literary device.
DTNS 3146 – Earningspalooza
It’s earnings-palooza! As Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter and Intel release earnings at the same time, we take the opportunity to reflect on what it means that the biggest companies in tech are now among the biggest companies in the world.
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Daily Tech Headlines – October 26, 2017
Twitter shows user growth, ends ads from RT and Sputnik, Facebook launches desktop version of Workplace and Apple’s CarPlay arrives on a motorcycle.
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Today in Tech History – October 26, 2017
1936 – The first electric generator went into full operation at Hoover Dam, about a month after President Roosevelt had dedicated the dam and tried to encourage people to call it the Boulder Dam.
1992 – Software deployment issues in CAD, the new ambulance dispatch system in London, caused 30-45 deaths. Poor training, a memory leak and no load testing contributed to the failure.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/las/lascase0.9.pdf
2004 – Apple debuted the iPod photo, capable of displaying digital photographs and album art on a built-in color screen.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/10/26Apple-Introduces-iPod-Photo.html
2012 – Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system went on sale, with its tile-based start screen.
http://news.microsoft.com/2012/10/25/windows-8-arrives/
2016 – Microsoft announced the Surface Studio, an all-in-one desktop PC with a touchscreen that could fold down almost flat on a desk. It worked with the new Surface Dial input device and sold for $2,999.
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East Meets West 361 -Politics
Politics, from Catalonia to New Zealand and China and beyond. Also housing.
DTNS 3145 – Why Did the Texter Cross the Road?
Amazon wants you to let it’s delivery people in your house while you’re gone, Apple says it has not reduced the accuracy of FaceID, and Honolulu wants you to watch where you’re going.
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Daily Tech Headlines – October 25, 2017
DirecTV moves away from satellite service, Microsoft drops Kinect manufacturing, Amazon announces Key to unlock customers’ doors.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 192
Brian and Tom are back together and we talk Mindhunter, Firefly (Trash), and Mr. Robot (302). They also revisit Blade Runner 2049 and a Winter Movie Draft update!
00:41 – Winter Movie Draft 2017
02:44 – Blade Runner 2049
05:19 – Mr. Robot (301-302)
11:31 – Mindhunter (101)
15:02 – Firefly (Trash)
Today in Tech History – October 25, 2017
1955 – Tappan introduced the first microwave oven for home use. It sold for $1,295. Raytheon developed the Radarrange after engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.
1977 – VAX/VMS was born. At a shareholder meeting, DEC, the Digital Equipment Corporation, released VMS v1.0 the first version of what we later would call OpenVMS, along with the VAX 11/780 architecture which increased the PDP-11 address space.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/30th/t_past_text.html
2001 – Microsoft Windows XP hit retail shelves for the first time.
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.london.launch/
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DTNS 3144 – My Kid’s Toy is Smarter than Your Honor Student
Are we ready for AI toys? Plus, Facebook messes with the News Feed and wipes out some site traffic and US DoJ backs down on gag orders.
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