The Hugo nominees are out and we love them all, we kick off the Hum and the Shiver with music, and a spider that looks like a sorting hat.
Daily Tech Headlines – June 8, 2017
Honda sets self-driving goal, Facebook gives elected officials more communication tools, AOL-Yahoo employees face layoffs after merger.
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Today in Tech History – June 8, 2017
1637 – Rene Descartes published “Discourse on the Method for Guiding One’s Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences”, which formed the basis of the modern scientific method. It’s also the source of the quote “I think, therefore I am.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=UPGVFEDVc0wC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=descartes+1637+june+8&source=bl&ots=IRzDxujrmz&sig=8Zo5pCV6q5e18OY_U4o26FCcwB4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x3iqUaOyCumdiAK4zIH4DA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=descartes%201637%20june%208&f=false
1949 – George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. The book still affects notions of privacy and inspired the iconic Apple commercial that introduced the Macintosh computer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell
1955 – Tim Berners-Lee was born in London. He grew up to develop the World Wide Web. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html
2008 – Apple announced Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_Announces_Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard/
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DTNS 3047 – Hack Me Baby One More Time
How 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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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 173
Wonder Woman, Leftovers (307-308), Justified (608), Summer Movie Draft.
00:54 – Summer Movie Draft
08:02 – Wonder Woman
17:33 – Leftovers (307-308)
31:19 – Justified (608)
Daily Tech Headlines – June 7, 2017
Uber 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
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?
Uber 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
Apple’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
1933 – 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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