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Daily Tech Headlines – April 17, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 17th, 2017

Microsoft says it has patched all leaked NSA exploits, Alphabet settles with Russian regulators, Nav devices added to UK driving test.

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Today in Tech History – April 17, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 17th, 2017

1944 – Harvard University President James Conant wrote to IBM founder Thomas Watson Sr. to let him know that the Harvard Mark I was operating smoothly. It was used in conjunction with the US Navy Bureau of Ships.

1967 – The Surveyor 3 spacecraft was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida on its mission to the Moon. It was the first to carry a surface soil sampling scoop.

1970 – The Apollo 13 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after a frightening malfunction caused the team to abort landing on the Moon and instead scramble to keep themselves alive.

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DFP #22 – Double Play

Damn Fine Podcast/ Shows / April 17th, 2017

We move to releasing episodes twice a week until season 3 starts and to kick things off, we welcome Brian Ibbott of Coverville and The Morning Stream to join us as things start to wrap up, and in some cases, resolution can’t come soon enough.

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Today in Tech History – April 16, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 16th, 2017

1959 – The programming language LISP had its first public presentation. Created by John McCarthy, LISP offered programmers flexibility in organization.

1971 – Abhay Bhushan proposed FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in RFC 114.

1976 – The Helios-B deep-space probe made what was then the closest controlled approach to the Sun at 43 million km or within 0.3 AU.

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Today in Tech History – April 15, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 15th, 2017

1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists, inventors and engineers in history, was born near the Tuscan town of Vinci.

1892 – The Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company merged to form the General Electric Company, manufacturer of dynamos and electric lights.

1977 – The first West Coast Computer Faire took place in Palo Alto, California. The star of the show would turn out to be the Apple II. The computer featured a built-in keyboard, 16 kilobytes of memory, BASIC, and eight expansion slots all for $1,300.

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DTNS 3009 – Mojo Ryzen

Daily Tech News Show / April 14th, 2017

The scoop on AMD’s Ryzen chips from Loyd Case, plus Apple gets an autonomous car license and might buy a piece of Toshiba.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 14, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 14th, 2017

Facebook better at blocking fake accounts, T-Mobile buys big in US spectrum auction, Nintendo sells more copies of Zelda for Switch than actual Switch consoles.

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Today in Tech History – April 14, 2017

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

1894 – Alfred Tate, a former Edison associate, and the Holland Brothers, opened a public Kinetoscope in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street. It was the first commercial motion picture house.

1956 – Ampex demonstrated the VRX-1000 videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago. It was the first successful commercial videotape recorder.

1996 – Jennifer Kaye Ringley hooked up a camera in her dorm room at Dickinson College and set it to upload a picture every three minutes as an experiment. The JenniCam would eventually reach 4 million hits per day at its peak.

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DTNS 3008 – No Nintendo For You

Daily Tech News Show / April 13th, 2017

Amazon describes its secret sauce, a man builds his own iPhone Apple’s important medical work, and Nintendo is really sorry it won’t make any more Nintendo Classics.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 13, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 13th, 2017

Microsoft has new events and a game refund program, Burger King’s Google Home adventure and a man who built his own iPhone.

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