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DTNS 2996 – This IS Brain Surgery

Daily Tech News Show / March 28th, 2017

Programmable mammal cells, why your bank teller will soon be AI and then after that you may plug AI directly into your own brain.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 28, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 28th, 2017

Facebook adds stories to main app, Twitter adds ads to Periscope streams, Ikea unleashes its smart lighting system on the world.

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Today in Tech History – March 28, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 28th, 2017

1905 – Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania received a patent for the “Art of Transmitting Intelligence.” It was the forerunner of the modern fax.

1935 – Robert Goddard launched the first rocket equipped with gyroscopic controls near Roswell, New Mexico. The rocket reached an altitude of 4,800 feet and flew 13,000 feet at a speed of 550 mph.

1979- A combination of equipment malfunction and human error caused a partial reactor meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. While no injuries or deaths have been attributed to the accident, it changed US nuclear attitudes significantly.

2016 – The first Oculus Rift VR headsets for consumers began being delivered. Co-founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first one the weekend before to Ross Martin in Alaska who had been the first to pre-order.

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Cordkillers 163 – Anthology Suicide

Cordkillers / March 27th, 2017

More evidence cord-cutting is not imaginary, AMC’s commercial-free service, Vudu’s disc-to-digital for phones, and the essential Expanse.

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DTNS 2995 – Pro-bot

Daily Tech News Show / March 27th, 2017

UK government calls to weaken encryption, Uber’s autonomous car has a wreck, and why are we afraid of robots?

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 27, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 27th, 2017

Uber grounds its autonomous fleets, UK calls for weaker encryption, Facebook adds location sharing to Messenger.

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Today in Tech History – March 27, 2017

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

1850 – San José was incorporated as one of the first cities in California and was the site of the first state capital. It would lose the capital to Vallejo in 1852 but eventually become the center of Silicon Valley and the de facto capital of the technology world.

1884 – The first successful long-distance telephone conversation took place. Bell and Watson experimented with a line of two twelve gauge hard-drawn copper wires connecting Boston and New York City. The line worked for about ninety minutes before finally falling.

1899 – Guglielmo Marconi made the first wireless transmission from France to England. A message was sent 32 miles from Wimereaux near Boulogne, France, to the South Foreland lighthouse near Dover, England. This became an important alternative to laying undersea cables for telegraphy.

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Today in Tech History – March 26, 2017

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

1973 – Larry Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan. He would go on to help invent and co-found Google.

1976 – Queen Elizabeth II sent the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern as a part of a demonstration of networking technology.

1999 – The “Melissa” worm showed up in a file on the alt.sex usenet group and became the first successful mass-mailing worm. The worm’s creator, David L. Smith, apparently named the worm after a lap dancer in Florida.

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Today in Tech History – March 25, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 25th, 2017

1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.

1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.

2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.

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DTNS 2994 – FedEx Pays You to Flash

Daily Tech News Show / March 24th, 2017

Why Tom would pay for Twitter, Flying Taxis in Singapore and what is a tech companies responsibility in publishing?

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