Daily Tech Headlines – December 12, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 12th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500iMac pro gets a sale date, Google experiments with new photo apps and Tesla sells more electric trucks.

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Today in Tech History – December 12, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 12th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazed a group at Toynbee Hall in East London with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Every time Marconi hit a key a bell would ring from a box across the room being carried by William Henry Preece.

http://www.wired.com/2011/12/1212marconi-radio-demo-transatlantic/

1973 – Founder of LinkExchange, CEO of Zappos, and promoter of customer-centric business, Tony Hsieh was born.

http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/tag/tony-hsieh/

1980 – Apple’s stock was initially offered for sale. Regulators in Massachusetts prohibited individual investors in the state from buying the stock, as it was deemed too risky.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4403276/Apple-IPO-makes-instant-millionaires–December-12–1980

1991 – Paul Kunz set up the first website in North America. It searched particle physics literature at Stanford.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/december12/webturns10-1212.html

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DTNS 3176 – Internet of Steves tells FCC to Stop It

Daily Tech News Show / December 11th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAre you a bad person for looking at someone else’s phone while they’re texting? Plus, there’s a way to 3D print WiFi devices made of plastic and a way to start learning quantum computing without owning a quantum computer.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 11, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 11th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x15003D print plastic that can handle WiFi, Apple buys Shazam, the fake MyEtherWallet.

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Today in Tech History – December 11, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 11th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1910 – Georges Claude, the first person to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas, displayed the first neon lamp to the public at the Paris Motor Show.

http://inventors.about.com/od/qstartinventions/a/neon.htm

1967 – The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France. Bigger news than the speed of the jet was the announcement that it was finally agreed that the British and French planes would both be spelled with an “e” at the end.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2050872,00.html

1972 – Apollo 17 became the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo17/index.html

1998 – The Mars Climate Orbiter was successfully launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. However, the probe disappeared on September 23rd before reaching Mars, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco981211.html

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Today in Tech History – December 10, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 10th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1815 – Ada Byron was born in London, England to the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke. She would later marry William King and take on his title as Lady Lovelace. But she is best remembered as Charles Babbage’s friend, and writer of the first program for his Difference Engine. She is considered by many to be the first computer programmer.

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

1942 – Germany conducted the first powered test flight of a V-1 Rocket, launched from beneath an Fw-200.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Sr6JtOoWghkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781894643054&source=bl&ots=gYyU75QoNf&sig=pOXKx8p7ncyGnBEKmmcEaVwOLRY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kPxQULLhF8mUiAKP2oHADQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=December%2010&f=false

1944 – Paul Otlet died. His theories presciently described a global interlinked “web” of documents, presaging the World Wide Web almost 50 years before its invention.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/434719/Paul-Otlet

1993 – John Carmack and friends at iD Software released the video game Doom. It would launch a million mods and make the first person shooter the dominant form of video game for decades.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5195508/doom-20th-anniversary-retrospective

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DTNS LABS – GAMES – Everything you need to know about lootboxes

Daily Tech News Show / December 9th, 2017

DTNS Labs LogoIn this episode, we explain everything you need to know about lootboxes in five questions:
What are loot boxes?
Why are they becoming an issue now?
Are governments getting involved?
Will they get banned?
What will happen?

With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

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Today in Tech History – December 9, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 9th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1906 – Grace Hopper was born. She would rise to the rank of Rear Admiral but be best remembered for popularizing the term “debugging” for hunting down computer errors. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL.
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/hopper.htm

1968 – Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart gave a legendary product demonstration of NLS that would become known as “the mother of all demos.” Among other things it introduced the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.

http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2008/02/original-program-announcement-for.html

1987 – Microsoft released Windows 2.0 which among other improvements could run the first Windows versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/windows-1-0-to-10-the-changing-face-of-microsofts-landmark-os/2/

2015 – The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency probe Akatsuki successfully went into orbit around Venus.

http://www.cnet.com/news/japans-akatsuki-orbiter-sends-back-triumphant-venus-images/

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DTNS 3175 – Hack 101: Always disclose your Hacks

Daily Tech News Show / December 8th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUber pays hush money to 20 year-old man to keep corporate data breach secret. YouTube plans to launch a new music service called Remix in March. And Nvidia releases the Titan V video card for machine learning.
With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Shannon Morse.

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