Hulu’s live TV service brings competition, Amazon might make peace with Apple TV, and Facebook wants to do high quality original TV.
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Turn any object into a touchscreen including play-doh. Plus Comcast modernizes its routers and Cortana gets a smart speaker.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 8, 2017
Intel chip vulnerability worse than it appeared, Harman-Kardon announces Cortana smart speaker, Handbrake issues malware warning.
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DFP #28 – The Path to the Black Lodge
The $500 prize for winning Miss Twin Peaks can change lives and we thank Anthony Carboni of We Have Concerns and The Star Wars Show for reminding us of that.
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Today in Tech History – May 8, 2017
1790 – The French National Assembly acted on a motion from Bishop Charles Maurice de Talleyrand to create a simple, stable, decimal system of measurement units. The earliest metre unit chosen was the length of a pendulum with a half-period of a second. The system eventually evolved into the metric system.
1988 – A fire broke out in the main switching room of the Hinsdale Central Office of the Illinois Bell telephone company, causing a telephone service outage for more than 40,000 local phone lines. It was considered to be the ‘worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history.’
1995 – The New York Times announced it would join eight other newspapers in the New Century Network. The network aimed to connect local online news services into a national service on the Web.
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Today in Tech History – May 7, 2017
1895 – The first demonstration of A. A. Popov’s electromagnetic wave receiver took place at a meeting of the Russian Physical Chemical Society in St.- Petersburg. It was essential to the development of wireless communications.
1895 – Otto Steiger received a patent for the Millionaire calculating machine. Switzerland’s Hans Egli made 4,700 of the 120-pound things. The Millionaire’s chief feature was the ability to do direct multiplication with a single rotation of the handle!
1952 – British radar engineer Geoffrey Dummer introduced the concept of the integrated circuit at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, DC.
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Today in Tech History – May 6, 2017
1896 – Samuel Pierpoint Langley’s Aerodrome No. 5 made the first successful flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft of substantial size.
1949 – The EDSAC, the first practical stored program computer, performed its first calculation. It operated at a speed of 714 operations per second.
2002 – Apple’s Steve Jobs previewed Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. It featured a handwriting technology dubbed Inkwell, an iChat instant messenger client, QuickTime 6 integration and more.
2003 – Eve Online launched. The massively multiplayer space adventure differed from others in that its storylines were created mostly by the players of the game.
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The death of the landline is at hand, Amazon and Apple may make peace and tips for good password hygiene with Bart Busschots.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 5, 2017
Facebook shuts down its VR movie studio, US DoJ investigating Uber, OnePlus 5 coming this summer.
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Today in Tech History – May 5, 2017
1961 – First NASA astronaut Alan Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule on its 15-minute 28-second suborbital flight.
1992 – Id Software released Wolfenstein 3-D. It wasn’t the original first person shooter, but it launched the form into widespread popularity.
1999 – Microsoft shipped Windows 98 SE to manufacturers. The new version included Internet Connection Sharing, Internet Explorer 5, Windows NetMeeting 3.
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