Daily Tech Headlines – March 8, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 8th, 2017

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The secret Tinder for celebs, Vimeo goes 360, Google buys Kaggle.

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Today in Tech History – March 8, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 8th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1955 – Doug Ross demonstrated the Director tape for MIT’s Whirlwind machine, the first digital computer with real-time text and graphics. The idea of the Director Tape was to allow multiple problems to be read by the computer in one session without humans having to intervene and change tapes. In other words, an operating system.

1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, was transmitted on BBC Radio 4. Some credit Adams with accidentally predicting the PDA and smartphone.

1979 – Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called “Philips Introduces Compact Disc.”

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DTNS 2981 – Better Call Chatbot

Daily Tech News Show / March 7th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow bad is the CIA Wikileaks release? Plus a lawyer bot for immigration and a standard for device security.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 7, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 7th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Wikileaks publishes CIA tools, Amazon drops resistance to Echo data in murder investigation, Twitch goes social.

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Today in Tech History – March 7, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 7th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for an “Improvement in Telegraphy” (No.174,465) which established the principle of bidirectional signals that made the telephone possible.

1926 – The first successful transatlantic telephone call was placed between New York City and London. Transatlantic service began the following year at $75 a minute.

1994 – The Supreme Court found that 2 Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman” was fair use, and not a violation of copyright, thus ensuring the future of The Onion.

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DTNS 2980 – Snippit! Snippit, Good!

Daily Tech News Show / March 6th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle snippets often provide wrong answers to questions. Now they’re tied to Google Home questions where you can’t tell as easily if they’re wrong or not. Tom and Veronica discuss that plus a robot that can get help by reading your mind and Ford’s plan to 3D print parts of cars.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 6, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 6th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500New Fitbit Alta HR, Facebook tests thumbs down reaction on Messenger and Ford tests 3D printing.

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Today in Tech History – March 6, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 6th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1937 – Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl region of Russia. She would grow up to become the first woman in space and only woman ever to fly solo in space.

1992 – The first media-hyped computer virus reached fever pitch as the Michelangelo boot sector virus began to affect computers. Worldwide catastrophe did not follow.

2007 Safricom launched M-Pesa in
Kenya, a service to let users receive, send and store money using a basic mobile phone.

2009 – NASA launched the Kepler space observatory, with a mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.

2012 – Google consolidated its various online stores, Android Market, Google Books, Google Music, and Google video, into one store called Google Play.

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