We’ve got more of Game of Thrones TV coming, the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees, and our thoughts on why The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is the opposite of epic in the best way possible.
DTNS 3027 – Eye Robot
Apple buys a sleep tracking company, Snap announces its first earnings since IPO, All the enterprise developer goodness at BUILD and a robot that can perform delicate eye surgery.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 169
American Gods (102), Better Call Saul (304), Fargo (303), The Leftovers (304), Justified (604), Summer Movie Draft.
01:20 – Summer Movie Draft
03:17 – American Gods (102)
12:41 – Better Call Saul (304)
18:24 – Fargo (303)
22:36 – The Leftovers (304)
29:12 – Justified (604)
Daily Tech Headlines – May 10, 2017
The latest from the Microsoft BUILD developer conference, plus new Snapchat features and Facebook News Feed tweaks.
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Today in Tech History – May 10, 2017
1946 – The US launched its second V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, which became the first successful launch of a large rocket on US soil. The rocket climbed straight up then pitched to the north reaching an altitude of 71 miles and impacted about 35 miles uprange.
1960 – The nuclear-powered USS Triton submarine arrived in Groton, Connecticut, after completing the first completely submerged circumnavigation of Earth.
2011 – Google announced its Open Hardware Platform and the Google Music service which would eventually become Google Play Music.
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DTNS 3026 – It Makes Complete Internet Sense
Why do people like smart speakers and why in heaven’s name would one need a screen? Tom tries to explain that and the Amazon Echo Show to Patrick. Plus chicken nuggets inspire the most retweets ever.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 9, 2017
Amazon Echo Show has a screen, Unlocked S8 up for preorder, Alipay expands in the US.
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Today in Tech History – May 9, 2017
1893 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the Kinetoscope for the first time at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
1941 – The British Royal Naval ship HMS Bulldog captured a German U-110 submarine south of Iceland and recovered a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known as Enigma. The sub was sunk to hide its capture and the machine taken to Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and other cryptographers broke the naval code.
1989 – Apple previewed its new System 7 operating system at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. It was announced users would need at least a Mac Plus to run it as well as 2 megs of RAM.
2006 – Nintendo announced that its next game console, previously referred to as the Nintendo Revolution, would be called the Nintendo Wii.
2012 – Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel wrote the first blog post about Snapchat which had launched in the iOS app store in September 2011 after changing it’s name from Picaboo.
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Cordkillers 169 – The New Tribalism
Hulu’s live TV service brings competition, Amazon might make peace with Apple TV, and Facebook wants to do high quality original TV.
DTNS 3025 – Touchy Subject
Turn any object into a touchscreen including play-doh. Plus Comcast modernizes its routers and Cortana gets a smart speaker.
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