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DTNS 3147 – Round Table: Automation, Amazon, Diversity and AI Hype

Daily Tech News Show / October 27th, 2017

It’s the final Friday of the month and that means it’s time for our first Round Table edition of DTNS. We’ll talk about 4 topics, 15 minutes or so each, including Automation, Amazon’s power, gender diversity in tech and the hype and reality behind AI.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Erin Carson. Play-off music courtesy of Andrew Allen.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 27, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / October 27th, 2017

Earnings look good from Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon. Intel has fast new SSDs and Amazon wants to become a prescription drug seller.

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Today in Tech History – October 27, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 27th, 2017

1904 – The first underground New York City subway line opened. The line ran from City Hall in lower Manhattan through Grand Central, Times Square and ended north in Harlem. Rides cost five cents.
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_New_York_Subway_Souvenir_(1904)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct27.html

1994 – HotWired launched bringing with it the first large quantity sales of banner ads. AT&T, Zima, MCI, Volvo, Club Med and 1-800-COLLECT all plunked down for the privilege.

http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/happy-birthday-digital-advertising/139964/

2005 – The European Space Agency launched its first satellite, a micro-satellite called the SSETI Express Satellite, designed and built by European students.
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/sseti_express/index.html

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#309 – League of Extraordinary Ladies

Shows/ Sword and Laser / October 26th, 2017

We’re happy for Chuck Wendig and sad for the passing of Roy Dotrice and Julian May. And we’re also debating whether side conversations are a good literary device.

DTNS 3146 – Earningspalooza

Daily Tech News Show / October 26th, 2017

It’s earnings-palooza! As Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter and Intel release earnings at the same time, we take the opportunity to reflect on what it means that the biggest companies in tech are now among the biggest companies in the world.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 26, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / October 26th, 2017

Twitter shows user growth, ends ads from RT and Sputnik, Facebook launches desktop version of Workplace and Apple’s CarPlay arrives on a motorcycle.

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Today in Tech History – October 26, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 26th, 2017

1936 – The first electric generator went into full operation at Hoover Dam, about a month after President Roosevelt had dedicated the dam and tried to encourage people to call it the Boulder Dam.

https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399466/First-Hoover-Dam-electric-generator-goes-into-full-operation–October-26–1936

1992 – Software deployment issues in CAD, the new ambulance dispatch system in London, caused 30-45 deaths. Poor training, a memory leak and no load testing contributed to the failure.

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/las/lascase0.9.pdf

2004 – Apple debuted the iPod photo, capable of displaying digital photographs and album art on a built-in color screen.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/10/26Apple-Introduces-iPod-Photo.html

2012 – Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system went on sale, with its tile-based start screen.

http://news.microsoft.com/2012/10/25/windows-8-arrives/

2016 – Microsoft announced the Surface Studio, an all-in-one desktop PC with a touchscreen that could fold down almost flat on a desk. It worked with the new Surface Dial input device and sold for $2,999.

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/26/13380462/microsoft-surface-studio-pc-computer-announced-features-price-release-date

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East Meets West 361 -Politics

East Meets West/ Shows / October 25th, 2017

Politics, from Catalonia to New Zealand and China and beyond. Also housing.

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DTNS 3145 – Why Did the Texter Cross the Road?

Daily Tech News Show / October 25th, 2017

Amazon wants you to let it’s delivery people in your house while you’re gone, Apple says it has not reduced the accuracy of FaceID, and Honolulu wants you to watch where you’re going.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 25, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / October 25th, 2017

DirecTV moves away from satellite service, Microsoft drops Kinect manufacturing, Amazon announces Key to unlock customers’ doors.

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