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DTNS 3163 – Let’s Talk Exoskeletons!

Daily Tech News Show / November 20th, 2017

Exoskeletons! They don’t require any electricity and they can help your neck. Are they still cool if they can’t fly? Plus A cheap Tesla battery that is also expensive and do we need a new over-the-air TV method?
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Dr. Kiki

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 20, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / November 20th, 2017

Volvo selling cars to Uber, iMac Pro might have always on Siri support, Xiaomi investing heavily in India.

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Today in Tech History – November 20, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 20th, 2017

1984 – The SETI Institute, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence was founded by Thomas Pierson (CEO), and Dr. Jill Tarter. No luck so far, but they keep looking.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/3992/November-20-SETI-Institute-is-founded

1985 – Microsoft finally released Version 1.0 of Windows. It was considered slightly inferior to competitors like DESQview and the Macintosh.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/History/The-History-of-Microsoft-1985

1998 – The first module of the International Space Station launched. Zarya, also called the Functional Cargo Block, provided electrical power, storage and propulsion. It’s now consigned to being used for storage.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/1998/iss3.html

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Today in Tech History – November 19, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 19th, 2017

1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston, Mass. received the first US patent for an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals. The so-called “calculating machine,” proved impractical.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=MaxFAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1967 – Hong Kong TV, the first free over the air commercial television station in Hong Kong was established. Today it is known as TVB.

http://www.tvb.com/info/faq/e_corporation.html

1981 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos banned video games, citing such insidious examples as Space Invaders and Asteroids as a “destructive social enemy, the electrical bandit.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=pq6-X1fTm2oC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=november+19+1981+marcos+bans+videogames&source=bl&ots=oQwRvtTza1&sig=5IoZotCSlAzF0Ha10SJWGAT0gUo&hl=en#v=onepage&q=november%2019%201981%20marcos%20bans%20videogames&f=false

2006 – The Nintendo Wii launched in North America.

http://www.cnet.com/news/nintendo-wii-release-details-nov-19-250-with-a-game-included/

2007 – Amazon launched an e-reader called the Kindle that used an e-ink screen. The device had built-in free Internet connectivity and sold for $399.
http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-debuts-kindle-e-book-reader/

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DTNS LABS – GAMES – Big Games of 2017

Daily Tech News Show / November 18th, 2017

Everything you need to know about the big games of 2017!
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

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The games we cover:

* The classics:

Call of Duty WWII

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Fifa 18 (and other sport sims)

Forza Motorsports 7 (and Forza Horizon 3) (XBox)

Gran Turismo Sport (PS4)

* Big IPs from other media:

Star Wars Battlefront II

Middle Earth Shadow of War

Injustice 2

South Park The Fractured But Whole

* Other multi-support:

Destiny 2

Mass Effect Andromeda

Wolfenstein II The New Colossus

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PC / coming to XBox One) (GA GotY finalist)

* PS4 exclusives:

Horizon Zero Dawn (GA GotY finalist)

Uncharted – The Lost Legacy

Neir Automata

Persona 5 (GA GotY finalist)

* Switch exclusives:

Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) (Wii U / Switch)

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (Wii U / Switch) (GA GotY finalist)

Super Mario Odyssey (GA GotY finalist)

Today in Tech History – November 18, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 18th, 2017

1883 – US and Canadian railways adopted five standardized time zones to replace the multitude of local times scattered across North America. It was called “The Day of Two Noons” as each railroad station clock was reset as standard-time noon was reached within each time zone.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/railroads-create-the-first-time-zones

1928 – Steamboat Willie premiered at Universal’s Colony Theater in New York City. It was the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was also the first official appearance of Mickey Mouse. Happy birthday Mickey, now give us back a reasonable public domain date.

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=89284

1977 – A startup called Microsoft, fresh off developing its own version of FORTRAN, won the right in arbitration to license its version of BASIC, previously licensed exclusively through MITS, makers of the Altair.

http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm

2012 – The Nintendo Wii U launched in North America. The console did not yet feature it TVii service but did require a 5GB download which took over an hour to update the console’s software.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/19/wii-u-launch-us-problems

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DTNS 3162 – No Rest for the Encrypted

Daily Tech News Show / November 17th, 2017

Tesla and Wal-mart get trucking, Apple moves farther from Qualcomm, and if you can’t weaken encryption, what’s a law enforcement official to do?
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Annalee Newitz.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 17, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / November 17th, 2017

Facebook launches Creators app, Tesla announces new electric truck, EA suspends Battlefront II in-app purchases.

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Today in Tech History – November 17, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 17th, 2017

1790 – August Ferdinand Mobius was born in Schulpforta, Saxony. The mathematician, astronomer and physicist is most well remembered for the discovery of the Mobius strip, a 2-dimensional object with only one side when embedded in 3D space. Poor Johann Benedict Listing also discovered it at the same time but Listing strip just doesn’t have the same ring.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Mobius.html

1947 – Walter Brattain dumped a semiconductor experiment into a thermos of water and unexpectedly saw a large amplification of electricity. Working with John Bardeen they developed it into a new amplifier that would eventually be called the transistor.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/miraclemo.html

1970 – The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/538-Lunokhod-1-Revisited.html

1971 – The Kenbak-1 desktop computer was advertised for sale in ComputerWorld for $750 It had first been advertised in Scientific American in September. The 8-bit computer had 256 bytes of memory and was dubbed the world’s first commercially available personal computer by a panel of experts involving Steve Wozniak.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wCl2yLDv2bAC&pg=PT42&dq=Kenbak-1&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bEPqTsXUG4GwiQKO1sC-BA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Kenbak-1&f=false
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34639183

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DTNS 3161 – Fool Me Once, Shame On You, Fool Me Twice, You’re a Bot

Daily Tech News Show / November 16th, 2017

A new system to help you decide whether to trust news sources on Facebook and Google and a new system to stop verifying people form Twitter.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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