Brittany Curran, who plays Fen on The Magicians, talks about how her childhood love of C.S. Lewis has turned into a modern-day trip to Fillory. Plus, the best way to enjoy Walt Whitman!
Daily Tech Headlines – March 9, 2017
Facebook launches Snapchat clone, Samsung leader on trial, WhatsApp for dairy cows.
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Today in Tech History – March 9, 2017
1948 – The University of California at Berkeley and the Atomic Energy Commission announced the artificial production of mesons using the 184-inch cyclotron at the university’s Radiation Laboratory.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launched, carrying a human dummy and and the dog Chernushka. It completed 1 orbit and was successfully recovered upon return. Yes, the dog made it back unharmed.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-133 made its final landing after 39 flights.
2015 – Apple and HBO announced a new Internet-only streaming version of HBO called HBO Now would launch in early April exclusively on Apple products including the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Apple also announced the Apple Watch would come April 24.
2016 – In the first of 5 games, DeepMind’s AlphaGo machine intelligence defeated 18-time Go champion Lee See-dol in Seoul, Korea.
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DTNS 2982 – AI Can Show You the World
There’s a secret Tinder, Microsoft gets closer to Windows Server on ARM and a visual search of the world through AI.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 160 (w/ Owen J.J. Stone)
Winter Movie Draft, Get Out, Logan, The Expanse (206), Justified (508). With special guest Owen JJ Stone (https://iqmz.com)
01:08- Winter Movie Draft
03:00 – Logan
17:28 – Get Out
33:50 – The Expanse (206)
38:44 – Justified (508)
Daily Tech Headlines – March 8, 2017
The secret Tinder for celebs, Vimeo goes 360, Google buys Kaggle.
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Today in Tech History – March 8, 2017
1955 – 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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DFP #16 – Drive with a Dead Girl
Leland goes for a drive, Ben does some cleaning, Truman’s had enough, and Cooper finds out that it’s happened, again.
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DTNS 2981 – Better Call Chatbot
How 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
Wikileaks publishes CIA tools, Amazon drops resistance to Echo data in murder investigation, Twitch goes social.
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