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DTNS 3063 – 10 Years Ago, We Got … One More Thing

Daily Tech News Show / June 29th, 2017

The iPhone turns 10! We discuss its impact on technology and culture. Plus Airbnb goes upscale with a new luxury service and the White House picks another FCC commissioner.
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Today in Tech History – June 29, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 29th, 2017

1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.
http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Geek-Cult-ebook/dp/B000VUCIZO

1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space Station.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-mir-realization-program-goal/

2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/29/technology/iphone_launches/index.htm

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 29, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / June 29th, 2017

Brendan Carr nominated for FCC, Elon Musk drills in LA, and the Canadian Supreme Court rules on global delisting of Google results.

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DTNS 3062 – One Ring To Pair Them All

Daily Tech News Show / June 28th, 2017

Whether we want a fingerprint under our screen and one ring to open doors and pay for stuff. Plus the latest on the Petya/NotPetya ransomware.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 176

Cordkillers / June 28th, 2017

Preacher (201), Fargo (Season 3), Better Call Saul (310), Justified (611), Summer Movie Draft

07:34 – Summer Movie Draft
10:19 – Preacher (201)
13:09 – Fargo (Season 3)
21:23 – Better Call Saul (310)
30:40 – Justified (611)

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 28, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / June 28th, 2017

More was to stop new ransomware, Windows 10 to get stronger security features, Qualcomm introduces under-glass fingerprint sensor.

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Today in Tech History – June 28, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 28th, 2017

1928 – Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl launched his first experimental rocket from a balloon 50,000 feet over Graz, Austria. The rocket was not recovered, but later tests were successful leading to rocket delivered mail.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/style/stamps-when-the-speed-of-rockets-delivered-the-mail.html

1965 – Officials in the US and Europe conducted the first commercial telephone conversation over satellite Early Bird I. The satellite also began operating for television transmission “live via satellite.”
http://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_sf_history-html/

1982 – Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo with the famous “blibbet” of horizontal lines in the first O. New packaging, and a comprehensive set of retail dealer support materials came along with the blibbet.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/The-History-of-Microsoft-1982

2011 – Google announced their latest social network attempt. Google + let you put friends in circles and share different things with different circles.
http://readwrite.com/2011/06/28/google_circles_googles_radical_new_social_network

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DTNS 3061 – Patrick Says that the EU is right. Tom disagrees.

Daily Tech News Show / June 27th, 2017

Google gets a couple billion in fines while Facebook passes 2 billion users and plenty of computers get infected with new ransomware.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 27, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / June 27th, 2017

Google gets fined billions by EU, new ransomware spreads after attacking Ukraine, Apple buys an eye tracking company.

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Today in Tech History – June 27, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 27th, 2017

1967 – The world’s first ATM was installed at a Barclays Bank branch in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/8328017.Cash_machine_plaque_unveiled_in_Enfield_Town/

1972 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney filed incorporation papers for Atari, Inc. and got ready to release its first product, a game called Pong.
http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/

1995 – Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it began distributing its Spyglass Mosaic Web browser. The Spyglass browser powered the first version of Internet Explorer and had code in IE all the way up to IE 7.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Spyglass(R)+announces+initial+public+offering.-a017142114

2008 – Bill Gates spent his last day as an employee of the company he founded, Microsoft, to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He remained Chairman of the Board.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/june-27-2008-bill-gates-retires-13831280

2012 – Sergey Brin interrupted a Google announcement of the new Google + app to show off the Project Glass smart glasses by having sky divers wearing the prototypes, jump out of a zeppelin and land on the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco, while streaming video in a Google hangout.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/googlers-skydive-wearing-google-glasses-broadcast-jump-live-to-google/

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