Rick and Morty (305), Game of Thrones (706), Summer Movie Draft. With Cordkillers producer Bryce Castillo.
01:09 – Summer Movie Draft
04:04 – Rick and Morty (305)
13:24 – Game of Thrones (706)
Daily Tech Headlines – August 23, 2017
The new Galaxy Note 8, Google and Wal-mart team up and CrashPlan ends consumer service.
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Today in Tech History – August 23, 2017
1852 – The first time signals were transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/milestones-space-photography/#/earth-from-moon_6428_600x450.jpg
1991 – Nintendo launched the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in North America.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/23/snes-25-year-anniversary/
1993 – Nintendo agreed to use Silicon Graphics Inc. technology in a video game player it was developing.
2012 – Microsoft unveiled a new logo for the first time in 25 years, opting for simple squares of color and block type with an overlapping ‘f’ and ‘t’.
http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2012/08/23/microsofts-new-logo/
2013 – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced he would retire within the next 12 months.
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DTNS 3100 – Patrick’s Technophile senses tingle
The scoop on Crash Plan getting out of home backups and what the heck an ICO or Initial Coin Offering is.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (03:20) CrashPlan shutting down consumer backup service
- (05:15) Google planning new Chromebook and Home devices
- Google app 7.10 reveals that ‘Bisto’ are headphones… – 9to5google
- (07:25) Verizon splits ‘Unlimited’ plan
- (11:10) eMarketer estimates 12-17 yo Facebook use to drop
- Let’s face reality: US Teens engage with iMessage… – Giuseppe Stuto
- (15:25) IBM announced consortium to explore blockchain use
- Discussion
- Thing of the Day
- (00:00) DTNS Facebook Group
- Message of the Day
- (33:35) Travis (mechagobbler) – autonomous weaponized robots
- (34:30) Rich Stroffolino – the Cloud
Daily Tech Headlines – August 22, 2017
Android Oreo, Google rumors, blockchain for food, and a cryptocurrency for Estonia.
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Today in Tech History – August 22, 2017
1932 – The BBC began public television broadcasts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1146543.stm
1955 – The first computer user group, SHARE was founded by users of IBM’s Model 704 computer. The first meeting was held in the basement conference room of the RAND Corporation.
http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0567.htm
2007 – The Storm botnet sent out a record 57 million virus-infected emails. It failed to take down the Internet.
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Cordkillers 184 – Popcorn is Worse Than Free Towels (w/ Sean Hollister)
Can MoviePass sustain $10 a month all-you-can-eat theater movies? Plus, Apple and Comcast team up to put theater movies in your home anyway.
DTNS 3099 – When electricity picked up steam
Android Oreo is official, AI experts warn against autonomous lethal weapons, and what steam engines and computers have in common.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (02:10) Android 8.0 is called ‘Oreo’
- (04:05) Intel announced updated U-series mobile processors
- (06:40) Xbox One X available for pre-order
- (07:50) United Nations urged to prevent arms race of autonomous weapons
- AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS… – Future of Life Institute
- (12:50) Nielson reports on listenership of music apps and radio
- Discussion
- (16:25) Why didn’t electricity immediately change manufacturing? – BBC News
- Thing of the Day
Daily Tech Headlines – August 21, 2017
Intel’s 8th-generation chips, Xbox One X pre-orders begin, Warnings about lethal Autonomous Weapons.
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Today in Tech History – August 21, 2017
1888 – William Seward Burroughs received four patents, including one for a ‘Calculating Machine’. It would power the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=BehtAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1973 – Sergey Brin was born in Moscow. His family emigrated to the US in 1979. He would grow up to co-develop a search engine with Larry Page and co-found Google.
http://www.biography.com/people/sergey-brin-12103333
1993 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer three days before it was supposed to enter orbit. As it began to pressurize fuel tanks, the spacecraft’s transmitters went silent and it was never heard from again.
http://science.nasa.gov/missions/mars-observer/
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