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Today in Tech History – January 5, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 5th, 2017

1948 – Warner Brothers showed the very first color newsreel, featuring the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football game.

1972 – President Richard M. Nixon announced that NASA would develop a space shuttle system, emphasizing its reliability, reusability and low cost.

1984 – Richard Stallman began working on the GNU Operating system, a free UNIX-like OS. GNU/Linux is seen as the most successful outgrowth of that project.

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DTNS 2939 – CES Kicks off

Daily Tech News Show / January 4th, 2017

We get you up to speed on the big announcements from CES.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 4, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 4th, 2017

Faraday Future debuts a prototype, Tesla misses sales target, and Intel’s Kaby Lake comes to all the computers.

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Today in Tech History – January 4, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 4th, 2017

1642 – Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe in England and would go on to describe universal gravitation and the three laws of motion as well as star in Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle. It was December 25th at the time now as the calendar had not yet been reformed.

1958 – Sputnik I the first manmade object to orbit the earth, fell back into the atmosphere and disintegrated, after 92 days in space.

2004 – One half of NASA’s Mars Rover team, Spirit, landed on Mars to analyze the planet’s rocks, looking for evidence of water. Its partner rover Opportunity was 21 days behind. Spirit is no longer active, but Opportunity keeps on chugging along.

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DTNS 2938 – I Want a Robocook

Daily Tech News Show / January 3rd, 2017

The first wave of CES news plus Patrick’s impressions of a new cloud PC service aimed at gaming.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 3, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 3rd, 2017

Lenovo debuts VR, SpaceX set to launch again, and Samsung makes a 4-in-1 laundry system.

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Today in Tech History – January 3, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 3rd, 2017

1957 – Hamilton Electric held a press conference to announce the World’s First Electronic Watch. The Hamilton Electric 500 never needed winding, just batteries.

1977 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak incorporated Apple Computer Company. Ron Wayne famously backed out, selling his shares for $800. Ouch.

1999 – The US Mars Polar Lander was launched. It would spend most of the year wending its way towards Mars before it lost communication with Earth in December, presumably after crashing.

2009 – “Satoshi Nakamoto” created a virtual currency called Bitcoin posting an announcement and 31,000 lines of code on the Internet.

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DTNS 2937 – CES 2017: What to Expect

Daily Tech News Show / January 2nd, 2017

Get a preview of what to expect from CES with Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 2, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 2nd, 2017

Dell releases a convertible laptop, full Android comes to Chryslers and French workers get protection from after-hours email.

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Today in Tech History – January 2, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 2nd, 2017

1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the Moon, was launched by the USSR.

1979 – Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporated Software Arts for the purpose of developing VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program.

2004 – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft successfully flew past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples it brought back to Earth two years later.

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