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DTNS 3099 – When electricity picked up steam
Android Oreo is official, AI experts warn against autonomous lethal weapons, and what steam engines and computers have in common.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (02:10) Android 8.0 is called ‘Oreo’
- (04:05) Intel announced updated U-series mobile processors
- (06:40) Xbox One X available for pre-order
- (07:50) United Nations urged to prevent arms race of autonomous weapons
- AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS… – Future of Life Institute
- (12:50) Nielson reports on listenership of music apps and radio
- Discussion
- (16:25) Why didn’t electricity immediately change manufacturing? – BBC News
- Thing of the Day
Daily Tech Headlines – August 21, 2017
Intel’s 8th-generation chips, Xbox One X pre-orders begin, Warnings about lethal Autonomous Weapons.
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Today in Tech History – August 21, 2017
1888 – William Seward Burroughs received four patents, including one for a ‘Calculating Machine’. It would power the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=BehtAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1973 – Sergey Brin was born in Moscow. His family emigrated to the US in 1979. He would grow up to co-develop a search engine with Larry Page and co-found Google.
http://www.biography.com/people/sergey-brin-12103333
1993 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer three days before it was supposed to enter orbit. As it began to pressurize fuel tanks, the spacecraft’s transmitters went silent and it was never heard from again.
http://science.nasa.gov/missions/mars-observer/
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DFP #45 – Twin Peaks: The Return Part 15
From the big romantic payoff, to Sunset Boulevard, to saying goodbye to a beloved character, this episode of Twin Peaks had it all. Ken Denmead from Geekdad joins us to revel in the rollercoaster of emotions brought to us by the Convenience Store.
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Today in Tech History – August 20, 2017
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK, began operating in Michigan. Now, WWJ, it is owned by CBS.
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/1stfacts.txt
1930 – W2XCR began broadcasting at 2.1-2.2 mHz from Jersey City, New Jersey, with the first demonstration of telecasts meant for the home. A half-hour program, hosted by the cartoonist Harry Hirschfeld, was viewed on screens placed in a store in the Hotel Ansonia, the Hearst building, and a home at 98 Riverside Drive.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xcr.html
1970 – John Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. He would grow up to co-found id software and bring the world Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Carmack-John.html#b
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Today in Tech History – August 19, 2017
1839 – At a crowded meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Louis Daguerre demonstrated the process of making photos called daguerreotypes.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v144/n3642/abs/144341b0.html
1906 – Philo Farnsworth was born on Indian Creek in Beaver County, Utah. He would grow up to inspire the beloved professor character on Futurama. He also gets credit for inventing the first completely electronic television.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm
1934 – Gordon Bell was born in Kirksville, Missouri. He would grow up to help build PDP computers and oversee the development of DEC’s VAX series.
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bell_gordon.htm
2003 – Dave Winer posted an experiment with RSS enclosures. It allowed subscribers with the right aggregator to have an MP3 of an interview Chris Lydon did delivered with no click-wait. This would lead to Christopher Lydon becoming the first podcaster before it was called podcasting.
http://scripting.com/2003/08.html#When:9:49:05PM
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DTNS 3098 – A Quantta of Solace
Chinese Cyber-court, ATT&T’s big loss, and mining the Deep and the Dark Web.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (04:20) Apple and Comcast rumored to be in talks with movie studios
- (06:35) Google will livestream launch of Android O on August 21st
- (08:10) The Verge’s Vlad Savov celebrates LG’s V30
- (10:45) EFF’s Executive Director condemns tech companies’ overreach
- (12:25) AT&T loses court fight regarding utility pole access
- Discussion
- (14:25) Dark Web Data
- A dark data startup you haven’t heard… – Tech In Asia
- Dark analytics: Illuminating opportunities… – Deloitte University Press
- Quantta Analytics
- The WWW Virtual Library
- (14:25) Dark Web Data
- Thing of the Day
- Message of the Day
- (23:40) Kenji – Verizon Up rewards program
Len Peralta’s “Devouring the Deep Web”
Daily Tech Headlines – August 18, 2017
Reddit hosts videos now, Skype for Mac gets redesigned, AT&T loses lawsuit to slow competitors in Louisville.
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Today in Tech History – August 18, 2017
1937 – The first Frequency Modulation or FM radio permit was granted to W1XOJ, in Paxton, Massachusetts. It went on the air with scheduled programs in May 1939 and operated with the highest output power (50 kilowatts) granted prior to World War II.
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/1stfacts.txt
1947 – Eight years after William Hewlett and David Packard founded it, Hewlett-Packard was officially incorporated.
2005 – The largest and most widespread power outage in history happened on the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bffd3f32-1044-11da-bd5c-00000e2511c8.html?nclick_check=1
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