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Daily Tech Headlines MWC – February 26, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 26th, 2017

New phones from LG, Huawei, BlackBerry and Nokia at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Today in Tech History – February 26, 2017

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

1896 – Hoping to test the sun’s ability to create X-rays, Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. It was cloudy.

1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

2015 – The US FCC voted 3-2 to implement new Open Internet Rules and classify Internet Service Providers as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

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Today in Tech History – February 25, 2017

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

1837 – The US Patent Office approved Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.

1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

1930 – A US patent for a photographing apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It was the first bank check photographing device.

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DTNS 2974 – Cloudy With A Chance of Flare

Daily Tech News Show / February 24th, 2017

Why the Cloudflare leak does affect you and why you shouldn’t panic, but might want to change your passwords. Plus 5G specs announced and Google sort of sues Uber.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 24, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 24th, 2017

Cloudflare suffers massive leak, Waymo sues Uber, Apple fixes some iPhone shutdowns.

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Today in Tech History – February 24, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 24th, 2017

1949 – A modified German V-2 ballistic missile launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of 244 miles, and putting it well above the Kármán line. It was the first US rocket to reach “outer space.”

1955 – A boy was born to University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. He was given up for adoption and taken in by a machinist and his wife in Mountain View, California. They named him Steve Jobs.

2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its final mission.

2014 – Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 with a heart rate sensor and water and dust proofing.

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DTNS 2973a – SHA-ttered – FULL VERSION

Daily Tech News Show / February 23rd, 2017

A new AI to moderate comments, SHA-1 is finally broken and why everyone is furious at Uber.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 23, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 23rd, 2017

SHA-1 is broken, What Fitbit paid for Pebble and AI moderation of comments.

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Today in Tech History – February 23, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 23rd, 2017

1893 – Germany’s Imperial Patent Office granted Rudolph Diesel Patent No. 67207 for “a new efficient thermal engine”. We just call it, the Diesel engine.

1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge signed Public Law no. 632 establishing the Federal Radio Commission which was later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission.

1927 – German physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, describing the uncertainty principle for the first time. He submitted a paper on the principle for publication the following March.

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DTNS 2972 – This will go down on your permanent Blockchain!

Daily Tech News Show / February 22nd, 2017

Is the blockchain good for anything besides Bitcoin? Yes. John Wolpert, Blockchain Offerings Director at IBM helps us understand.

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