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Today in Tech History – November 9, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 9th, 2017

1967 – NASA launched a Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 4, a test craft launched from Cape Kennedy. It was the first launch in the Apollo program and the first time using the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-4/apollo-4.html

1979 – The NORAD computers detected a massive Soviet Nuclear Strike. Thankfully raw data from satellites were reviewed along with early warning radar, proving it was a false alarm. A technician had loaded a test tape but failed to switch the system status to “test”. Oops!

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb371/

2004 – The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0. It featured tabbed browsing and a popup blocker.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html

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DTNS 3155 – Up Up and Uber Away

Daily Tech News Show / November 8th, 2017

Flying cars is an industry that multiple companies are investing in. Crazy? Or Crazy like a flying fox? Also, Bloomberg’s latest reliable Apple rumors and Logitech cuts functions from some of their old remote controls.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 194

Cordkillers / November 8th, 2017

Why Brian saw Thor twice, the last two episodes of Stranger Things, Tom thinks they may have seen the most boring Mr. Robot yet, and Mal finds love on Firefly.

01:18 – Winter Movie Draft 2017
03:26 – Thor: Ragnarok
14:49 – Mr. Robot (304)
23:30 – Stranger Things (208-209)
35:08 – Firefly (Heart of Gold)

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 8, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / November 8th, 2017

Facebook and Australia team up to fight revenge porn, Apple’s developing an AR headset, Snap gets investment from Tencent.

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Today in Tech History – November 8, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 8th, 2017

1870 – The US Weather Bureau (someday to become the National Weather Service) issued its first weather warning for a storm on the Great Lakes. It was accurate, but there was no high-pitched beep yet.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/november_8th_1870.php

1887 – German immigrant Emile Berliner patented a successful system of sound recording that used flat disks instead of cylinders. The first versions were made of glass. Talk about your broken records.

http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gramophone.htm

1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, working in his lab in Wurzburg noticed a strange effect while studying vacuum tubes covered in black cardboard. He eventually saw his own skeleton and went on to publish a paper “On a new kind of rays.” The rays would end up being called X-Rays.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/xray/roentgen.html
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html

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DTNS 3154 – XBAAS XBox As A Service

Daily Tech News Show / November 7th, 2017

Waymo goes literally driverless with its cars, a noise-canceling ramen fork, and whether the death of consoles was exaggerated.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 7, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / November 7th, 2017

Waymo goes truly driverless, Amazon ships a fire TV stick international, and Apple caught moving cash offshore.

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Today in Tech History – November 7, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 7th, 2017

1960 – The JOSS (Johniac Open Shop System) conversational time-sharing service began on the Rand Corporation’s Johnniac computer. Time sharing reduced the time programmers had to wait after turning in their punch cards.
http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/11/mco2012110012.html

1994 – University of North Carolina student radio station WXYC began what is considered the world’s first Internet radio broadcast. DJ Michael Shoffner set it up. The simulcast continues today.

http://www.wxyc.org/about/simulcast

1996 – NASA launched the Mars global surveyor, humanity’s return to Mars after a 10-year absence. The mission discovered much about the Geology of the planet.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/past/globalsurveyor/

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Cordkillers 194 – Accomplished Cord Murderers

Cordkillers / November 7th, 2017

What’s going to happen to House of Cards? Apple TV 4K gets more reasonable controls. Might Disney buy its way back into controlling X-Men and Fantastic 4?

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DTNS 3153 – Broadcom’s and Qualcomm’s Romcom

Daily Tech News Show / November 6th, 2017

Chip consolidation continues as Broadcom wants to bu Qualcomm, Intel teams up with AMD for a packaged chip with a discrete Radeon GPU, and we discuss whether tech companies should be shut down or encouraged to rule the world.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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