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1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.
1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.
1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.
2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.
2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered, causing noticeable dips in Internet traffic as fans flocked to theaters and avoided spoilers.
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Why would Yahoo or anyone use MD5 to has passwords in the last ten years? Darren Kitchen attempts to explain while Len Peralta tries to draw a picture relating his explanation to Star Wars.
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Verizon wants a new deal for Yahoo, Turkey’s 3rd largest bank attacked, Nintendo Switch might work as VR.
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1935 – A Time magazine article described the use of the pattern of capillaries in the retina as a means of identification called eye prints. Hello biometrics!
1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.
2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.
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One billion Yahoo accounts compromised, Twitch lets anyone stream about anything, Mario arrives on iOS and Justin Robert Young explains to Tom Merritt why Facebook’s fake news system could open a portal to hell.
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1 billion Yahoo accounts breached, President Trump meets with tech execs, FCC’s Tom Wheeler announces resignation.
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1953 – Dudley Buck entered the idea for the Cryotron into his MIT notebook. The cryotron is a four-terminal superconductive computer component.
1965 – Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
1994 – Netscape shipped version 1.0 of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.
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Ben Johnson from Marketplace tech talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about his show Codebreaker as well as drone deliveries, Amazon Echos in hotel rooms, snapchat surgery and autonomous cars.
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Winter Movie Draft, 3% (101), Justified (409)
00:48 – Winter Movie Draft
06:48 – 3% (101)
19:27 – Justified (409)