Today in Tech History – October 14, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 14th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than 100 years until digital stole its thunder.

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-44.jsp

1977 – The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-35th-atari-2600-175216071.html http://www.theverge.com/products/atari-2600/1710

1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/10/1014cplusplus-released/all/1

1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the enduser of Linux.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php

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DTNS LABS – Art Tech – Scott’s Gear Overview

Daily Tech News Show / October 14th, 2017

DTNS Labs LogoScott talks about the hardware he’s used and tested to make his art.

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DTNS 3137 – Google Targets Amazon

Daily Tech News Show / October 13th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTurn any flat surface into a touch screen, the new Raspberry pi-top and how Google is teaming up with all the retailers to beat Amazon.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 13, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / October 13th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Good news and bad news for Samsung, the Dark Web gets darker, and Sony’s projection touch screen.

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Today in Tech History – October 13, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 13th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.

http://books.google.com/books?id=2PCEPLT4aZgC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=october+13+1884+greenwich&source=bl&ots=OL5dRVJ8tz&sig=ItRzcm7zjEFOe33oFSMowrADBwk&hl=en#v=onepage&q=october%2013%201884%20greenwich&f=false

1983 – Bob Barnett, president of Ameritech Mobile communications, called Alexander Graham Bell’s nephew from Chicago’s Soldier Field using a Motorola DynaTAC handset. It marked the launch of the first cellular telephone network in the US.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10064633-94.html

1985 – The first observation of a proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/milestones/interactive-timeline.html

2000 – Tristan Louis suggested sound and video tags be added to the 0.92 spec for RSS feeds. This led to enclosures which allowed media files to be delivered through RSS and paved the way for podcasting.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/syndication/conversations/topics/698

2016 – The PlayStation VR headset began shipping.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/12/13255384/playstation-vr-launch-availability-where-how-to-buy

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#308 – A Decade of Us

Shows/ Sword and Laser / October 12th, 2017

That’s right, Sword and Laser has been picking and reading books for 10 years and we’re not even close to stopping. This week we discuss why you don’t need to travel to London to read Theodora Goss but it doesn’t hurt. And why we’re extra excited for Andy Weir’s Artemis.

DTNS 3136 – You’re Wrong -ong -ong -ong

Daily Tech News Show / October 12th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHuge open source AI collab between Amazon and Microsoft, Disney wins a digital movie war you didn’t know was being fought, and whether social media is threatening democracy.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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What Happened to the DTNS Video podcast?

Daily Tech News Show / October 12th, 2017

The DTNS video feed is not actually run by us, it’s been maintained by a volunteer fan Shawn Wei for it’s entire life which has been most fo the time since we launched in 2014. In all that time Shawn has done an amazing job keeping the feed up and running.

Tuesday we noticed that the feed was not updating and I mentioned it to Shawn on Twitter who promised to look into it. I followed up with him in an email yesterday. Shawn has a day job that was keeping him from getting right on it but he said it was an error in the script that creates the feed and he would get it fixed.

Our apologies for those of you who rely on this feed for the video version of the podcast. I’ve contacted Shawn again this morning and raised the idea of transferring the feed over to us so we can help fix things like this.

Shawn has been amazing and it’s to his credit that most of you haven’t even noticed this was a fan-run feed for so many years.

Apologies again for the disruption.

Tom

Daily Tech Headlines – October 12, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / October 12th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Oculus headsets go wireless, Google disables a Home button and Facebook to release details on Russian ads.

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Today in Tech History – October 12, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 12th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1979 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first published unleashing in book form, the world of Vogon Poetry, essential towel behaviour, and the BabelFish.

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=1237

2001 – An era ended as the Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection, killed off by 1-hour developing and the rise of digital cameras. Bank One bought most of the company and re-launched a company under the same name.

http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/12/companies/polaroid/

2003 – Adam Curry posted an AppleScript called RSS2iPod that took MP3s downloaded by RSS to a folder and automatically transferred them to a connected iPod. Christopher Lydon’s Radio UserLand was used as the example.

http://radio-weblogs.com/0001014/2003/10/12.html#a4604

2005 – After previously assuring us nobody wanted to watch videos on an iPod, Steve Jobs reversed course and Apple started making videos available on iTunes. ABC/Disney was the only TV network available at the time but you could get episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives the day after they aired.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/10/12Apple-Announces-iTunes-6-With-2-000-Music-Videos-Pixar-Short-Films-Hit-TV-Shows.html

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