People have broadcast but not TVs, YouTube has a TV service, and Amazon pilot season is back. With special guest Owen JJ Stone (https://iqmz.com)
DTNS 2980 – Snippit! Snippit, Good!
Google snippets often provide wrong answers to questions. Now they’re tied to Google Home questions where you can’t tell as easily if they’re wrong or not. Tom and Veronica discuss that plus a robot that can get help by reading your mind and Ford’s plan to 3D print parts of cars.
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Daily Tech Headlines – March 6, 2017
New Fitbit Alta HR, Facebook tests thumbs down reaction on Messenger and Ford tests 3D printing.
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Today in Tech History – March 6, 2017
1937 – Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl region of Russia. She would grow up to become the first woman in space and only woman ever to fly solo in space.
1992 – The first media-hyped computer virus reached fever pitch as the Michelangelo boot sector virus began to affect computers. Worldwide catastrophe did not follow.
2007 Safricom launched M-Pesa in
Kenya, a service to let users receive, send and store money using a basic mobile phone.
2009 – NASA launched the Kepler space observatory, with a mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
2012 – Google consolidated its various online stores, Android Market, Google Books, Google Music, and Google video, into one store called Google Play.
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DTH – Sunday History Break
DTH Sunday history break.
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Today in Tech History – March 5, 2017
1975 – The Homebrew Computer Club, held its first meeting in the garage of Gordon French in Menlo Park, California. 32 people showed up for the first meeting. John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were some of the more famous members of the club.
1981 – The ZX81 was launched by Sinclair Research in Britain for £69.95 and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. It was much more successful than it’s predecessor the ZX80.
1982 – Four days after it’s twin, the second of two Soviet probes to Venus, the Venera 14 landed on the planet. Venera 13 and 14 would continue to send data until 1983.
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DTNS 2979 – How Does Zelda Taste?
Our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, plus why online shoppers in Thailand don’t use shopping carts.
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DTH – Saturday History Break
DTH Saturday history break.
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Today in Tech History – March 4, 2017
1976 – The first Freon-cooled Cray-1 supercomputer was shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories, in New Mexico at a cost of $19,000,000.
2000 – The Sony PlayStation 2 went on sale in Japan.
2007 – Election Day was held in Estonia, and for the first time in the world, voters were allowed to vote on the Internet. Approximately 30,000 voters took advantage of electronic voting. Ballots had to be completed three days before election day.
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DTNS Friday Announcement/Headlines
Why the Friday show will be on Saturday and the headlines for Friday.
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