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DTNS 3113 – One Bad Apple (Leak)

Daily Tech News Show / September 11th, 2017

Is it the press’s job to help Apple keep its secrets? Do leaks ahead of events spoil them for you? Plus Xiaomi tries to steal a little announcement thunder.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 11, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 11th, 2017

Xiaomi announces new phones and laptop, Apple iPhone leaks, China cracks down on cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Today in Tech History – September 11, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 11th, 2017

1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

http://eyesofageneration.com/cameras-page/ge-cameras/

1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/isee3.html

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/starr.report/

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Today in Tech History – September 10, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 10th, 2017

1990 – Peter Deutsch posted to comp.archives about the Internet Archive Server called “Archie” that he, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan had put together. It is often considered the Internet’s first search engine.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.archives/LWVA50W8BKk/wyRbF_lDc6cJ

1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.unix.misc/-CGG1XLkjfk

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, powered up on its quest to discover the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1098.html

2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/10Apple-Introduces-iPhone-5c-The-Most-Colorful-iPhone-Yet.html

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Today in Tech History – September 9, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 9th, 2017

1940 – In McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote operation of a computer. He connected to his Complex Number Generator at Bell labs by telephone using 28-wire teletype cable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stibitz_plaque_0708_edited-1.jpg

1947 – While troubleshooting the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, operators found a moth trapped between the points of relay #70 in Panel F. They affixed the bug to the log and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.” While this was not the first use of the term ’bug’ for a computer problem, ‘debugging’ became popular for fixing bugs after this case.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/

1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in North America.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2015/09/09/playstation-turns-20-in-the-u-s-heres-a-look-back-at-the-consoles-evolution/

1999 – The Sega Dreamcast debuted in North America. However many were distracted by the supposed 9/9/99 bug that ended up being just as much of a non-problem as the Y2K bug.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/09/the-swirl-that-shook-gaming-the-sega-dreamcast-turns-10/
http://www.zdnet.com/9999-not-a-problem-say-bug-experts-3002073449/

2014 – Apple announced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6+ along with Apple Pay, a system that used NFC for payments. The company also unveiled the Apple Watch.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/09/apple-unveils-apple-watch/

2015 – Apple announced a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a new Apple TV with a hard drive and remote with a touchpad and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with force touch capability.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/everything-apple-announced-at-its-september-2015-event/

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DTNS 3112 – Equihaxxed

Daily Tech News Show / September 8th, 2017

An AI that can determine sexual orientation, a store that takes personal info for purchases and the horrible no good very bad Equifax breach.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.

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News You Should Know
- (01:20) Equifax confirmed massive breach
- (01:40) FBI investigating Uber
- (01:55) Facebook willing to spend $1 Billion on original content
- (02:20) Google acquiring HTC
More Top Stories
- (03:20) AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon form Mobile Authentication Taskforce
- (04:35) Kaspersky Lab trades photos for swag
- (07:15) Algorithm identifies gay/straight persons with facial images
- (11:25) Camera manufacturer RED teams up with Leia Inc
- (12:35) Google working with state of Florida for Irma traffic
Discussion
- (13:35) Equifax data breach affects as many as 143 million
  - Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock… | Bloomberg
  - Why the Equifax breach is…possibly the worst… | Ars Technica
  - TrustedID enrollment may waive rights
    - Are you an Equifax breach victim?… | Ars Technica
  - It’s time to build our own Equifax with blackjack and crypto | TechCrunch
  - What happened to Equifax today | TechCrunch
  - Equifax security breach leaks personal info… | Engadget
  - Equifax execs dumped stock before the hack news went public | TechCrunch
Message of the Day
- (33:35) Jim Thatcher – Ohio broadband

Len Peralta’s “Credibility Score“

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 8, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 8th, 2017

Equifax breach exposes information on 143 million US residents, US FBI investigating Uber and RED has more details on its holographic smartphone.

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Today in Tech History – September 8, 2017

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

1930 – The first roll of waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape was sold. Its brand name “Scotch” has become synonymous with cellophane tape.

http://news.3m.com/press-release/company/3m-celebrates-75-years-scotch-transparent-tape

1966 – The TV show Star Trek made its network television debut with the episode “The Man Trap”. Star Trek would have a profound influence on future technology thought and design.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/8_September

2004 – NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-landed when its parachute failed to open.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/media/feature-genesis-returns.html

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DTNS 3111 – Dolphin Attack

Daily Tech News Show / September 7th, 2017

Smart clothes that grow with your children, John Deere gets into AI and how being online helps people stay clean and sober.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Hammond Chamberlin

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DTNS Studio Chat with Sarah

Daily Tech News Show / September 7th, 2017

Tom and Sarah sit down and take her new studio for a spin. Yes not all is perfect yet but we thought you’d enjoy the sneak peek anyway.

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