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Daily Tech Headlines – September 15, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 15th, 2016

iPhone 7 Plus sells out before launch day, Pandora launches new paid streaming radio service, NYC shuts down public Web browsing terminals.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 14, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 14th, 2016

Uber goes autonomous Twitter brings live video to Apple TV, Amazon Echo turns white launches in UK and Germany.

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Today in Tech History – September 14, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 14th, 2016

1959 – After 33.5 hours of flight, Luna 2 became the first human-made object to strike the moon.

2000 – Microsoft released Windows ME. The ME stood for Millenium Edition but deserving or not, would eventually become code for a bad or unnecessary OS update.

2001 – The Nintendo GameCube went on sale in Japan. It was the first Nintendo game console that did not use cartridges.

2015 – The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves of two merging black holes. It was the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 13, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 13th, 2016

iPhone 7 bats records, Twitter ads exemptions to 140 character limit, Netflix fights data caps.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 12, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 12th, 2016

Ford buys Chariot, Amazon wants to stream sports, and vDOS goes dark.

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Today in Tech History – September 11, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 11th, 2016

1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

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Today in Tech History – September 9, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 9th, 2016

1940 – In McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote operation of a computer. He connected to his Complex Number Generator at Bell labs by telephone using 28-wire teletype cable.

1947 – While troubleshooting the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, operators found a moth trapped between the points of relay #70 in Panel F. They affixed the bug to the log and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.” While this was not the first use of the term ’bug’ for a computer problem, ‘debugging’ became popular for fixing bugs after this case.

1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in North America.

1999 – The Sega Dreamcast debuted in North America. However many were distracted by the supposed 9/9/99 bug that ended up being just as much of a non-problem as the Y2K bug.

2014 – Apple announced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6+ along with Apple Pay, a system that used NFC for payments. The company also unveiled the Apple Watch.

2015 – Apple announced a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a new Apple TV with a hard drive and remote with a touchpad and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with force touch capability.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 9, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 9th, 2016

Airbnb makes changes to address discrimination, the FCC is all about apps, and burrito drones.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 8, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 8th, 2016

New PS4s, HP Enterprise and Intel spinoffs, and oh yeah the iPhone.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 7, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 7th, 2016

ITT Tech shuts down, Microsoft gets a little Slack, and Volvo and Autoliv team up.

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