Daily Tech Headlines – January 18, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 18th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel has more Spectre problems, Apple will give you more options when your battery gets old, and Nintendo has cool cardboard attachments for the Switch.

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Today in Tech History – January 18, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 18th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1902 – Nikola Tesla filed a patent application for wireless energy transmission. The patent was granted 12 years later. We’re still waiting for the kinks to get worked out.
http://www.tfcbooks.com/patents/1119732.htm

1903 – The first two-way transatlantic communication, and first wireless telegram was sent between North America and Europe. US President Teddy Roosevelt and King Edward VII. They wrote to each other how awesome the wireless telegraph was.

http://www.nps.gov/caco/forteachers/upload/Marconi.pdf

2012 – Many websites, led by Reddit, Wikipedia and others, conducted an Internet “blackout” to protest the US SOPA/PIPA bills.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wikipedia-blackout-websites-wikipedia-reddit-dark-wednesday-protest/story?id=15373251#.UFonko1lRG0

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DTNS 3200a – Sorry Dave, I Can’t Comprehend That

Daily Tech News Show / January 17th, 2018

Blizzard’s Overwatch League attracts 10 million viewers in its first week. What should come next? TWiT sues Twitter over breach of contract and YouTube will begin manually reviewing videos in the Google Preferred premium ad program to assuage client fears over their ads appearing over inappropriate videos.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 17, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 17th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500China leads app usage growth, OnePlus shuts down credit card payments, Microsoft expands Surface Book 2 country availability.

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Today in Tech History – January 17, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 17th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1871 – Andrew S. Hallidie received a patent for an “endless wire rope way” which he would put into practice as the cable car system in San Francisco, California.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_cablecar_1.html

1882 – Thomas Edison received a patent for adding a carbon microphone to the telephone. The patent described finely divided conducting material, like carbon, between metal cups mounted on arms that attached to the mouthpiece diaphragm.
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00252442.PDF

1928 – Anatol M. Josepho received a the first US patent for a fully automatic photographic film developing machine. The Photomaton better known as a PhotoBooth in the US still survives as an app and in dark corners of subway stations.

http://www.google.com/patents/US1656522?printsec=drawing&dq=1,656,522&ei=OIoUT5K0O-Pz0gH3nYSsAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

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DTNS 3199 – Can We Have an Alert for the Alert?

Daily Tech News Show / January 16th, 2018

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWas Hawaii mistakenly put on a ballistic missile alert by bad User Interface design? Can a push by Democrats in the Senate to Reinstate Open Internet Guidelines? And a Canadian man has been arrested for disrupting Twitch streams.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 16, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 16th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google undersea cables, Facebook news test, free satellite Internet.

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Today in Tech History – January 16, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 16th, 2018

Today in Tech History logo1969 – The Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 spacecraft successfully docked in orbit. Yevgeny Khrunov moved from Soyuz-5 to Soyuz-4 and Alexei Yeliseyev went from 4 to 5, marking the first time spacefarers went up in one craft and returned to Earth in another.

https://www.wired.com/2009/01/jan-16-1969-a-rendezvous-and-a-rough-ride-home-2/
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/soyuz45/soyuz45.html

1986 – The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) met for the first time in San Diego to supervise the design and deployment of Internet protocol.

http://www.ietf.org/25years

2007 – Blizzard released the first expansion to its wildly successful World of Warcraft game. The Burning Crusade raised the level cap and allowed players flying mounts, at least when they were in Outland.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1053831/burning.html

2007 – Netflix announced it would begin offering a streaming movies service in addition to its DVD rental service. Movies would initially stream to Windows PCs for customers with at least 3 Mbps Internet service and roll out slowly to all subscribers by July.

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/01/8627/

2015 – The Royal Society announced that the Beagle 2 lander had been found intact on the surface of Mars. The European Space Agency had lost contact with it Dec. 19, 2003 and it had been thought destroyed.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/space-beagle-idUKKBN0KP15F20150116

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