Today in Tech History – July 22, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1933 – Wiley Post returned to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes after leaving, becoming the fastest person to circumnavigate the Earth by air and the first to do it solo.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wiley-post-flies-solo-around-the-world

1962 – The first Mariner space probe to Venus had to be destroyed shortly after lift-off because of “improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment.” The error was caused by a missing overbar in the program that must have disappeared during hand transcription.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A16F63C59137B93C1AB178CD85F468685F9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbar

1997 – Apple announced OS 8 for Macintosh computers. It added easier Internet integration and a 3D look to the OS.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/sep97/applesep97.html

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DTNS 3078 – GreyOrange is the new Black

Daily Tech News Show / July 21st, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comLyft wants to make its own autonomous car parts, Verizon gets caught throttling video, and an Indian company revolutionizing robots in warehouses.
With Shannon Morse, Tom Merritt and Len Peralta.

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Len Peralta’s “A Gray/Orange Love Story”

Daily Tech Headlines – July 21, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / July 21st, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft strong earnings from cloud, Alexa comes to Android and Lyft gets into autonomous car building.

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Today in Tech History – July 21, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 21st, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1975 – Xerox announced its withdrawal from computer mainframe manufacturing. The company did indicate it would continue activities in other computer-related businesses like computer disk drives, serial printers, and apparently giving away secrets to companies like Apple and Microsoft.
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/profess/SDSigma7.htm

2002 – WorldCom filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history. It was the number two long-distance phone company, at a time when that still meant something. It would end up changing its name back to MCI, and its remains exists as Verizon’s business division.

http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/19/news/worldcom_bankruptcy/

2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, Runway 15, ending the US space shuttle missions.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/launch/sts-135_mission-overview.html

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DTNS 3077a – A Shot In The Dark Web

Daily Tech News Show / July 20th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comMicrosoft builds Cortana into a thermostat, Rwanda uses low power networking to stop poachers, and Elon Musk promises more things.
With Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt

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Action News – The Game of Television News

Password Managers for Newbies – DTNS WEEKLY TECH UPDATE 07/20/2017

Daily Tech Headlines – July 20, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / July 20th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel off of wearables, Cortana comes to a thermostat and Rwanda uses low power networking to stop poachers.

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Today in Tech History – July 20, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 20th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1960 – In a first for missiles, a Polaris A1 test vehicle was successfully launched from the USS George Washington submarine off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_55/StratDeter.html

1969 – In a first for humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. successfully landed the Lunar Module “Eagle” on the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission and became the first humans to ever set foot on Earth’s satellite.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html

1976 – In a first for robots, the Viking 1 lander successfully set down on on Mars in the Chryse Planitia and performed its mission.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html

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DTNS 3076 – Tiers for Fears

Daily Tech News Show / July 19th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhether Nintendo’s Switch app makes sense, whether Facebook supporting paywalls for publishers make sense, and why actually teaching kids courses about computer science makes So much sense.

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