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Daily Tech Headlines – January 5, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 5th, 2018

Jimmy Iovine might cash out at Apple, Kohler makes smart faucets and more updates on Meltdown and Spectre

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Today in Tech History – January 5, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 5th, 2018

1948 – Warner Brothers showed the very first color newsreel, featuring the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football game.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Nyg3NJ4VVuAC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=january+5+1948+newsreel+tournament+of+roses&source=bl&ots=1v6x2PwJ4c&sig=Snfz8JP62-w3DyzyoPKaY73cuyo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjagv3n89vJAhVF62MKHbL8DBQQ6AEIRjAJ#v=onepage&q=january%205%201948%20newsreel%20tournament%20of%20roses&f=false

1972 – President Richard M. Nixon announced that NASA would develop a space shuttle system, emphasizing its reliability, reusability and low cost.
http://history.nasa.gov/stsnixon.htm

1984 – Richard Stallman began working on the GNU Operating system, a free UNIX-like OS. GNU/Linux is seen as the most successful outgrowth of that project.

http://stallman.org/

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DTNS 3192 – The Spectre of Speculation

Daily Tech News Show / January 4th, 2018

Whether or not to freak out about the new chip vulnerabilities, or whether to freak out about the Indian citizen database breach OR whether you should freak out about oil-filled artificial muscles for robots and prosthetics.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Roger Chang.

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News You Should Know
- (01:15) Nintendo’s Switch is the fastest-selling US console ever | engadget
- (01:20) Samsung’s new Exynos chip teases iPhone X features for Galaxy S9 | circuit breaker
- (01:40) Blade Shadow heads to the US to slay your PC | cnet
- (02:15) Mad Catz, maker of gaming peripherals, is back from the dead | cnet
- (02:40) Microsoft unveils preorders for the beautiful $319 Cortana-powered thermostat | the verge
More Top Stories
- (03:10) “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws | ars technica
  - Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers | new york times
  - Meltdown and Spectre | graz university
  - Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know | google security blog
  - Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits | intel
  - Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2 | macrumors
  - (05:30) Michael O’Neill – Meltdown and Spectre
- (13:55) Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2018: Fix Facebook | cnbc
- (18:20) AT&T will launch real mobile 5G in 12 cities this year | engadget
- (21:10) India probes report on breach of national identity database | reuters
- (23:35) A Clever New Robotic ‘Muscle’ Seriously Lifts, Bro | wired
Message of the Day
- (26:35) Anonymous – Apple design
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#314 – Not-So-Young Frankenstein

Shows/ Sword and Laser / January 4th, 2018

It’s a whole new year of books, and we have some suggestions! Plus the science behind Westeros and the amazing 200-year-old Mary Shelley.

Daily Tech Headlines – January 4, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 4th, 2018

The latest on the severe chip flaws, plus new Dell and Lenovo laptops.

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Today in Tech History – January 4, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 4th, 2018

1642 – Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe in England and would go on to describe universal gravitation and the three laws of motion as well as star in Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle. It was December 25th at the time now as the calendar had not yet been reformed.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ufhatch/pages/01-courses/current-courses/08sr-newton.htm

1958 – Sputnik I the first manmade object to orbit the earth, fell back into the atmosphere and disintegrated, after 92 days in space.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Chron&StartYear=1950&EndYear=1959&MCode=Sputnik

2004 – One half of NASA’s Mars Rover team, Spirit, landed on Mars to analyze the planet’s rocks, looking for evidence of water. Its partner rover Opportunity was 21 days behind. Spirit is no longer active, but Opportunity keeps on chugging along.

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/tl_launch.html

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DTNS 3191 – Let The Chips Flaw Where They May

Daily Tech News Show / January 3rd, 2018

What you need to know about the Intel chip vulnerability, controlling a car with your mind and more startups try to make a go of lab-grown meat.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Rich Stroffolino.

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News You Should Know
- (01:15) Intel’s processors have a security bug and the fix could slow down PCs | The Verge
- (01:40) BlackBerry’s QNX OS to anchor Baidu’s Apollo autonomous driving platform | VentureBeat
- (02:15) Microsoft acquires Avere Systems, file-storage vendor for Windows and Linux | ZD Net
More Top Stories
- (02:35) iFixit teardown of iMac Pro lends a nuanced look inside the powerful all-in-one | 9to5 Mac
- (07:00) Roku joins the voice computing market with smart soundbars, speakers and more built by partners | Tech Crunch
- (10:40) Nissan’s Car of the Future Will Read Your Brain Waves | Bloomberg
- (13:00) Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken | Tech Crunch
- (15:35) Spotify Hit With $1.6 Billion Copyright Lawsuit Over Tom Petty, Weezer, Neil Young Songs | Hollywood Reporter
Discussion (18:25)
- Serious Intel CPU design flaw may require a Windows patch, but probably won’t affect gaming performance | PC Gamer
- Intel’s processors have a security bug and the fix could slow down PCs | The Verge
- What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches? | Ars Technica
- Intel CPU Design Flaw, Performance Degradation, Security Updates | Lone Sysadmin
- The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches | Python Sweetness
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Today’s Contributor
- Scott Johnson

Daily Tech Headlines – January 3, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / January 3rd, 2018

Spotify sued by Wixen Music Publishing, Microsoft buys Avere Systems, Roku developing smart voice assistant.

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Today in Tech History – January 3, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 3rd, 2018

1957 – Hamilton Electric held a press conference to announce the World’s First Electronic Watch. The Hamilton Electric 500 never needed winding, just batteries.
http://www.thewatchguy.com/pages/HAMILTONELECT.html

1977 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak incorporated Apple Computer Company. Ron Wayne famously backed out, selling his shares for $800. Ouch.
http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm?FaqSetID=6

1999 – The US Mars Polar Lander was launched. It would spend most of the year wending its way towards Mars before it lost communication with Earth in December, presumably after crashing.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander/

2009 – “Satoshi Nakamoto” created a virtual currency called Bitcoin posting an announcement and 31,000 lines of code on the Internet.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_davis

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DTNS 3190 – Meatless VR!

Daily Tech News Show / January 2nd, 2018

A new advancement could make VR lenses thinner, whether Apple should buy Netflix and what we think of Apple’s battery replacement program. Oh and DTNS has been around for four years now, officially.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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