DTNS 3047 – Hack Me Baby One More Time

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow well did Apple’s appeal to the creative professionals work. Plus new Facebook tools for elected officials and the Summer of Sharks continues with three new security stories.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 7, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber cleans house, Apple makes it easier to fix iPhone screens, OnePlus 5 gets a launch date.

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Today in Tech History – June 7, 2017

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1954 – Computer science hero Alan Turing died. His death was ruled a suicide from eating an apple containing cyanide. Turing formulated the famous Turing test and broke code at Bletchley park during World War II.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/

1975 – Sony introduced the Betamax video recorder for sale. It would lose the format war to VHS but find a niche in broadcast production.
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/this+history+june+1975/6745667/story.html

1980 – The first US solar power plant was dedicated at the Natural Bridge National Monument, Utah.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jC1QAAAAYAAJ&q=natural+bridges+solar+june+7+1980&dq=natural+bridges+solar+june+7+1980&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9sGnUda-E8iaiALLk4DgBQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA

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DTNS 3046 – Are You My Type?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUber cleans house, Amazon, Reddit and Mozilla team up for net neutrality fight, and why bots need personality.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 6, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple’s WWDC announcements, HP’s new Omen gaming rigs, Lyft partners with Nutonomy on autonomous car service.

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Today in Tech History – June 6, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1933 – The world’s first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. Richard Hollingshead Jr. had developed the system by using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and aimed at a screen pinned to some trees.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-drive-in-movie-theater-opens

1984 – Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov completed the first playable version of Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, was released. It was popularized by Hank Rogers who bought the rights and distributed it.
http://www.wired.com/2009/06/tetris/

1995 – The Los Angeles Times reported that Father Leonard Boyle was working to put the Vatican’s library on the World Wide Web through a site funded by IBM.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/June/6/

2013 – The Guardian published another leak from Edward Snowden about the PRISM project used to gather data held by Google, Facebook, Apple and other US tech companies. The tech companies denied “back door access” to their systems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

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DTNS 3045 – HomePod: it’s an iPod for your home

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comApple announces new iPads, MacBook Pros, iMacs and a smart speaker called HomePod. Plus there’s just enough room to chat about the encryption battle starting up again and new 5 nanometer chip processes.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 5, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft Workstation returns, Apple leaks out files and 32-bit app restrictions, and Amazon and Apple may join Foxconn in Toshiba bid.

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