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Daily Tech Headlines – July 20, 2017
Intel off of wearables, Cortana comes to a thermostat and Rwanda uses low power networking to stop poachers.
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Today in Tech History – July 20, 2017
1960 – In a first for missiles, a Polaris A1 test vehicle was successfully launched from the USS George Washington submarine off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_55/StratDeter.html
1969 – In a first for humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. successfully landed the Lunar Module “Eagle” on the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission and became the first humans to ever set foot on Earth’s satellite.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
1976 – In a first for robots, the Viking 1 lander successfully set down on on Mars in the Chryse Planitia and performed its mission.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html
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DTNS 3076 – Tiers for Fears
Whether Nintendo’s Switch app makes sense, whether Facebook supporting paywalls for publishers make sense, and why actually teaching kids courses about computer science makes So much sense.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (02:10) Apple names Isabel Ge Mahe first Greater China region managing director
- (03:10) Nintendo released Switch app for Android and iOS
- (06:15) Facebook may begin testing a paywall for news stories
- (10:10) Chinese WhatsApp users report photos and videos only working on VPN
- (12:20) Avast acquired CCleaner maker Piriform
- Discussion
- (14:50) Google adds personalized news feed to Android and iOS app home screen
- Message of the Day
- (23:55) Anonymous – Glass Enterprise Edition
- (26:20) Victor – Bixby first impressions
- (27:55) Bruce – Knox box unlocks
Daily Tech Headlines – July 19, 2017
Google adds news fede to home screen, Nintendo launches Switch app, Apple hires new china managing director.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 179
Baby Driver, War for the Planet of the Apes, Game of Thrones (701), Firefly (101, “Serenity”), Summer Movie Draft.
00:42 – Summer Movie Draft
03:38 – Baby Driver
13:53 – War for the Planet of the Apes
19:28 – Game of Thrones (701)
32:08 – Firefly (101, “Serenity”)
Today in Tech History – July 19, 2017
1961 – Trans World Airlines began offering regular in-flight movies on scheduled flights. The first film shown, only in the first class cabin, mind you, was “By Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
https://travelersunited.org/today/81-years-since-the-first-inflight-movie-was-shown/
1983 – Michael W. Vannier and his co-workers J. Marsh and J. Warren published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single computed tomography (CT) slices of the human head.
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/150/1/179.full.pdf
2004 – Apple announced the fourth-generation iPod with 12-hour battery life and the ability to shuffle songs. HP announced they would sell an HP branded version of this model of the iPod.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/07/19Apple-Introduces-the-New-iPod.html
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DTNS 3075 – Amazon’s Meals on Wheels
A security robot found floating in a fountain. Amazon delivering meal kits, and whether Lamarr’s Mom liked the new LG laptop.
With Lamarr Wilson and Tom Merritt.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- Discussion
- (19:30) Lamarr’s latest tech haul
- Message of the Day
- (23:30) Michael & Teresa Blaes – crowdfunding
- (24:50) Liam – Quantum Computing explaination
- (27:15) Preston – Net Neutrality reference
- (28:20) Josh – Knox box
- (29:30) Anonymous – Kaspersky Labs
- (31:45) Larry the OR Nurse – Sony Dash
Daily Tech Headlines – July 18, 2017
Netflix sets subscriber mark, Google Glass has a new enterprise version, Samsung may make chips for iPhones again.
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Today in Tech History – July 18, 2017
1968 – Robert Noyce, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore incorporated Moore and Noyce electronics, swiftly renamed at Noyce’s daughter’s suggestion to Integrated Electronics Corporation, or Intel for short.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1031210/secret-intel-revealed http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/General/15yrs.pdf
1992 – Silvano de Gennaro, an IT developer at CERN took a picture of the singing group ‘Les Horribles Cernettes’ who sang mostly about physics. Tim Berners-Lee would later use that picture as a test, making it the first photo uploaded to the World Wide Web.
2001 – Apple announced Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first update to OS X.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/18Apple-Previews-Next-Version-of-Mac-OS-X.html
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