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DTNS 2985 – Swipe My Jacket

Daily Tech News Show / March 13th, 2017

Use your jean jacket sleeve like a mouse and why Intel just bet BIG on car tech. Plus how Nintendo overcame low expectations.

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Meetup – Book Signing March 18 at Book Soup in LA

Speaking Appearances / March 13th, 2017

Saturday March 18 at 4 PM, Tom will be at Book Soup to talk about his book Pilot X and sign some copies.

Whether you’re interested in the book or Tom’s podcasts, you’re welcome to come on by!

Book Soup is located at:
8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, Ca 90069

And again the event is Saturday, March 18 at 4 PM.

Daily Tech Headlines – March 13, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 13th, 2017

Intel buys Mobileye, Google shows off a Levi’s smart jacket, Pandora launches its on-demand music service.

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Today in Tech History – March 13, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 13th, 2017

1781 – English astronomer William Herschel observed what he initially thought was a comet but turned out to be the planet Uranus. It was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope.

1882 – At the Royal Institution, Eadweard J. Muybridge demonstrated his zoopraxiscope, an optical apparatus that exhibited photographs of moving animals. It is sometimes considered the first movie projector.

1969 – Apollo 9 returned safely to Earth after orbital testing of the first crewed Lunar Module.

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Today in Tech History – March 12, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 12th, 2017

1790 – John Frederic Daniell was born. He would grow up to invent the Daniell cell, a battery that supplied an even current during continuous operation, thus making battery power practical.

1889 – Almon B. Strowger of Kansas City filed his patent for the first automatic telephone exchange.

1923 – Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated the Phonofilm for the press. It was the first motion picture with a sound-on-film track.

1989 – Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing an “information management” system that became the foundation of the World Wide Web. He called it the Mesh at the time.

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Today in Tech History – March 11, 2017

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

105 – Ts’ai Lun demonstrated his process for making paper to the Han emperor in China. He probably didn’t invent it, but he certainly turned it into an industry for the first time. And the industry still survives 20 centuries later even in the face of the computers that plot its doom.

1985 – The Southern New England Telephone Company turned on ConnNet, the nation’s first local, public packet-switching network. Customers could access CompuServ, NewsNet and other services at a blistering 4,800 to 56,000 bits per second. The service’s X.25 protocol went obsolete in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet Protocol.

2011 – Apple began selling the iPad 2, a thinner version of the first iPad, that also included a camera.

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DTNS 2984 – Fintech != fish

Daily Tech News Show / March 10th, 2017

Tesla promises 100 day battery build for Australia, or it’s free, India makes a play for FinTech and Allison Sheridan shares her experience of 30 years as a female engineer.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 10, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 10th, 2017

Google makes CAPTCHA invisible, Carmack sues Zenimax and Apple fights the right to repair.

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Today in Tech History – March 10, 2017

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

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell spoke the immortal words “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” over a telephone in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant from the next room. It is widely considered the first instance of someone using technology when they bloody well could have just got up and spoke to someone in person. It is also widely considered the first phone call.

1891 – Almon B. Strowger was issued a US patent for his electromechanical switch to automate a telephone exchange. Strowger wasn’t the first to think of of automatic switching but he was the first to make a practical switch.

2000 -The Nasdaq hit 5,048.62, the highest point of the dot-com boom. The bust began the next day.

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DTNS 2983 – Google Trying to Pick Up the Slack

Daily Tech News Show / March 9th, 2017

IBM stores data in an atom, WhatsApp might make money off cows, and whether we should care about the Wikileaks CIA dump.

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