Today in Tech History – July 10, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 10th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1856 – Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother an inventor of household appliances.

http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm

1962 – The world’s first communication satellite, Telstar, was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral on a Delta rocket.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol42-1963/articles/bstj42-4-1449.pdf

1990 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formally founded, immediately coming to the aid of Steve Jackson Games, who’s BBS had been seized by the Secret Service.

http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/?f=eff_creation.html

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Daily Tech Headlines – July 10, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / July 10th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The News Media Alliance seeks collective bargaining with Google and Facebook, W3C approves DRM web standard, and Stripe partners with Alipay and WeChat.

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Today in Tech History – July 9, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 9th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1941 – British cryptologists including Alan Turing broke the code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the eastern front.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enigma-key-broken

1971 – Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He would grow up to develop the Netscape browser, which powered the explosion of the Web in the late 1990s.
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-andreessen-9542208

1979 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 kilometers of the planet.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/history/70s/Voyager2_1979.htm

1982 – Disney released the movie Tron, which used the most extensive computer-generated graphics and special effects to that time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/

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Today in Tech History – July 8, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 8th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1908 – Charles Urban demonstrated Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process, at a scientific meeting in Paris attended by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
http://books.google.com/books?id=JGoLZrIqa_wC&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=july+8+1908+kinemacolor&source=bl&ots=txw5pg8N-G&sig=BXNkiUCZrOEpNgbV01fq80SiEwM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iwGnU6KlFoTZoATB_4KQBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=july%208%201908%20kinemacolor&f=false

1946 – The University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering began a summer school course on computing that inspired the EDSAC, BINAC, and, many other similar computers.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200208/history.cfm

2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on the final Space Shuttle mission.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/space-shuttle-atlantis-final-flight-launches-florida-struggling/story?id=14024251#.T87MB9VYvmI

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DTNS 3068 – The Insecurity of Cybersecurity

Daily Tech News Show / July 7th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comSamsung’s riding high, Jawbone’s not and Dan Patterson’s adventures at a Ukrainian cybersecurity summit.

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Len Peralta’s “The Four Components of CyberDefense”

Daily Tech Headlines – July 7, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / July 7th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft lays off people to refocus on cloud, George Hotz sells a car toolkit and Samsung gets ready for its most profitable quarter yet.

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Today in Tech History – July 7, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / July 7th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard was born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor created the first programmable power loom and the cards he used to program it would be adapted by Herman Hollerith and others for programming the first computers.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/7/

1936 – Henry F. Phillips received patents for a new kind of screw and the screwdriver used with it. Endless numbers of computer cases have been held together by it since.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=MINJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1981 – The first solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, flew 163 miles from Corneille-en-Verin Airport north of Paris across the English Channel to Manston Royal Air Force Base south of London, staying aloft 5 hours and 23 minutes.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-054-DFRC.html

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DTNS 3067 – Bonfire Of The Inanity

Daily Tech News Show / July 6th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe new best hope for Moore’s Law, Google back to its old self in VR and why Amazon and Dish may be talking partnership again.

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