Daily Tech Headlines – January 26, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 26th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google gets into local news, Intel has good news despite Meltdown and Rakuten and Wal-Mart team up on groceries and ebooks.

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Today in Tech History – January 26, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 26th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1926 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of a broadcast television picture that delivered a recognizable human face. Previously he could only broadcast silhouettes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/tvstory2 http://www.bairdtelevision.com/

1932 – The US Patent Office received a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a “Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions.”

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

1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory saw first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope. Hubble photographed Hubble’s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261).

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/history.html

1983 – Lotus began selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. It would quickly become the most popular spreadsheet software but not make the transition to Windows well and fall behind Excel permanently.

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/0126lotus-1-2-3/

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DTNS 3206 – Millennials Are Killing CNN

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2018

Are gestures the best way to control devices? Plus, Nintendo ends its first iOS app, CNN ends Casey Neistat’s Beme and New York tries to end net neutrality violations.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 25, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Miitomo closing down, Apple changing iBooks and Samsung sets a date for the 9.

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Today in Tech History – January 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 25th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company in agreement with the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China and several other Asian countries.

http://edison.rutgers.edu/list.htm

1915 – AT&T inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, CA The line had been completed the previous summer too early for the Panama Pacific Exposition, where it was introduced.

https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4405635/1st-transcontinental-phone-call-made–January-25–1915

1921 – A play called Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) by Karel Capek debuted at the National Theater in Prague. It was the first appearance of the word robot. Spoiler alert, the robots end up killing all the humans but one.

http://io9.com/5260195/where-do-robots-come-from

1979 – Robert Williams was killed on the job in a Flat Rock, Michigan, casting plant, becoming the first recorded human death by robot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/25/robot-murder-anniversary

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DTNS 3205 – $5 Million For Change

Daily Tech News Show / January 24th, 2018

AT&T takes out full page ads in the Washington Post and NY Times urging Congress to pass a Net Neutrality law. Critics content the effort is hypocritical and in fact would enshrine anti-net neutrality behavior into law. YouTube is pushing for a nicer, kinder YouTube, but is that what YouTube really wants?

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 24, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 24th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The European Commission hands Qualcomm a big fine, Uber autonomous vehicles within 18 months, and Facebook acquires Confirm.io

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Today in Tech History – January 24, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 24th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1935 – Krueger’s Cream Ale and Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, Virginia in cans, developed by the American Can Company. Cans protected beer better than translucent bottles.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-canned-beer-goes-on-sale

1950 – Percy LeBaron Spencer received a patent for a “Method of Treating Foodstuffs” which we would recognize as the microwave oven. Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.

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

1984 – The original Macintosh was introduced becoming the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface.

https://www.cultofmac.com/263298/watch-steve-jobs-introduce-macintosh-january-24-1984/

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DTNS 3204 – Rapport-Based Security Solutions

Daily Tech News Show / January 23rd, 2018

Can law enforcement meet the demands of cyber-security without roughshod over the privacy concerns of citizens and weakening encryption? Plus Apple announced the arrival of HomePod, DuckDuckGo extension protects users against ad bots and tracking, and Google releases its Files Go app.

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

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