Whose outfits are more ridiculous: Windom Earle’s or Billy Zane’s? We welcome Scott Johnson to help us figure it out.
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#290 – Let’s Get Stuck in Fantasyland!
Neil Gaiman makes sure the American Gods TV show is prepared for the sequel he hasn’t even written yet, why the Invisible Library doesn’t need to change the world to be awesome, and a plea for regular folks to get back to Fantasyland.
DTNS 3017 – New Kids on the Blockchain
Is Twitter’s desire to become a 24 hour video channel crazy, brilliant or both? Plus a new Amazon Echo with a camera that helps dress you, and the US FCC decides to revise net neutrality rules.
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 26, 2017
Twitter wants to be 24/7 video channel, Instagram hits record growth, Note 7 refurbs coming in June.
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Today in Tech History – April 26, 2017
1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.
1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.
1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.
2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.
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DTNS 3016a – Microsoft Part 2: Electric Googaloo
Why Google is more like Microsoft than ever, plus three plans to improve news and two plans to bring self-driving cars to Phoenix and the Netherlands.
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 25, 2017
The battle against fake news continues, Waymo starts free self-driving car service in Phoenix and Europe tries to ban region blocking.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 167 (w/ Richard Gunther)
Fargo (301), Better Call Saul (302), The Leftovers (302), Justified (602) and the Summer Movie Draft. With special guest Richard Gunther.
00:59 – Summer Movie Draft
04:48 – Fargo (301)
10:49 – Better Call Saul (302)
16:56 – The Leftovers (302)
25:27 – Justified (602)
Today in Tech History – April 25, 2017
1944 – Lt. Carter Harman of the 1st Air Commando Group rescued four men from the jungle in Burma, flying a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. It was the first combat rescue by helicopters in the US Army Air Forces.
1953 – Watson and Crick presented their findings on the double helical structure of DNA in the publication Nature. They noted that the structure “suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” 50 Years later the Human Genome Project had concluded sequencing the genome and published a follow-on in Nature on their vision for genetic research.
1961 – Robert Noyce received the US patent for the silicon-based integrated circuit. He went on to found the Intel Corporation with Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Noyce fought a long patent rights battle with Jack Kilby who invented a germanium based integrated circuit.
2014 – Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia’s handset business. Nokia retained its mapping, research and network infrastructure business. Microsoft gained most of the mobile phone parts of the company.
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Cordkillers 167 – The UnSub Purge (w/ Richard Gunther)
Can Stephen King’s son save Hulu or will live TV do that? Plus, why you hate using your television to watch shows and spring cleaning for your TV subscriptions. Join the Unsub Purge!