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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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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 158

Cordkillers / February 22nd, 2017

Winter Movie Draft, Logan impressions, Split, The Young Pope (106-110), Justified (506)

01:09 – Winter Movie Draft
01:49 – Logan (spoiler-free impressions)
04:03 – Triage (The Expanse 203)
06:11 – The Young Pope (106-110)
20:56 – Split
29:51 – Justified (506)

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 22, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 22nd, 2017

Apple’s new campus to open in April, MLB in talks with Facebook, Skype Lite comes to India.

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DFP #14 – Demons

Shows / February 22nd, 2017

Introducing FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole! And to welcome him, Conor Kilpatrick of iFanboy returns to the show as we dive deep into the mythology of Twin Peaks as mysteries begin to be solved.

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Today in Tech History – February 22, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 22nd, 2017

1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany. Hertz made key discoveries in optics but also transmitted and received electromagnetic waves and gave his name to the common unit of frequency, Hz.

1995 – Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett completed the first hot air balloon flight over the Pacific Ocean. At 9600 km it was also the longest balloon flight.

1995 – US President Clinton signed an Executive Order directing the declassification of intelligence imagery acquired by the CORONA, ARGON and LANYARD US photo-reconnaissance satellites. More than 860,000 images of the Earth’s surface, collected between 1960 and 1972 were made public.

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