Governments are made of people, one problem with government is scale, do we need to disrupt representative democracy? Should we redraw state borders? Do we need a new social contract?
DTNS 2998 – Internet Surveillance Panic
What ISPS can and can’t do with your privacy in the US, plus Twitter exempts @ replies from its character count and Microsoft has a Samsung phone for sale.
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#287 – You Do Like Your Alternate Londons
A SciFi book is mysteriously returned after 35 years, at the same time a billionaire suddenly invests in brain implants and a skull begins to talk. Are these events connected somehow? Yes. They’re all discussed in this episode along with Gateway by Frederick Pohl.
Daily Tech Headlines – March 30, 2017
AppAnnie predicts rising app revenue, No, you can’t buy individual congressional representative’s data, Lyft starts a fixed route shuttle service.
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Today in Tech History – March 30, 2017
240 BC – Chinese astronomers observed a new broom-shaped “star” in the sky. It was the first confirmed sighting of Halley’s Comet.
1950 – Bell Telephone Laboratories announced the invention of a new kind of electric eye called the phototransistor. Dr. John Northrup Shive invented the transistor, which operated by light rather than electricity.
1951 – The Census UNIVAC System was accepted and subsequently devoted almost exclusively to tabulating results of the 1950 Census of Population and Housing. It was the first UNIVAC and was capable of completing 1,905 operations per second, which it stored on magnetic tape.
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DTNS 2997 – Galaxy fan’s appetites S8ed
Samsung announces first new phones since Note 7 recall, plus US ISP privacy law passed and Windows 10 update release set.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 163
Summer Movie Draft, Legion (102), The Expanse (209), Justified (511).
00:42 – Summer Movie Draft
06:39 – Legion (102)
11:02 – The Expanse (209)
17:36 – Justified (511)
Daily Tech Headlines – March 29, 2017
Samsung announces new S8 phones, Gear VR headset and Gear 360 camera. Microsoft sets date for Windows 10 Creators Update, Intel promises 10-nanometer chips by end of year.
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Today in Tech History – March 29, 2017
1941 – 80% of US AM radio frequencies were reassigned to new channels as part of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement.
1945 – German soldiers blew the launch tracks for the V-1 rocket site near Letelle, Netherlands, ending the rocket attacks.
1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first space probe to cross the orbit of Mercury about 704 km from the surface.
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DFP #19 – Masked Ball
We meet a familiar face, albeit in a dress as Dave Brodbeck joins us just in time for James to get a gig fixing a Jag and begin the trail of misery that follows.
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