Person hunter, really! He’s an equal-opportunity ass-kicker. Author and fighter of crimes, Myke Cole, tells us how he got involved in the new CBS show Hunted! And, what Sam Sykes has to do with any of it.
DTNS 2951 – A Medium level of Credibility
Why the Note 7s exploded, Google commits to Google Voice, and why we credit Facebook with things.
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Daily Tech Headlines – January 23, 2017
Samsung descriobes what caused Note 7 fiasco, Sprint buys part of Tidal music service, SEC investigates Yahoo.
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Today in Tech History – January 23, 2017
1896 – Wilhelm Roentgen spoke to the Würzburg Physical Medical Society where he demonstrated X-rays by photographing the hand of session chair Dr. Albert von Kolliker, a famous anatomist.
1960 – With a crew of two, the bathyscaphe Trieste, descended 10,911 meters in the Pacific Ocean into Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam, the deepest known point in the oceans.
2003 – Earth lost communication with space probe Pioneer 10 which was 12 billion-kilometers from Earth.
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Today in Tech History – January 22, 2017
1939 – John Dunning’s Cyclotron split the uranium atom for the first time at Columbia University in New York City. And the Manhattan Project was on.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1984 – Apple aired the famous “1984” commercial for the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott.
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Today in Tech History – January 21, 2017
1957 – NBC taped and broadcast President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second inauguration address, further popularizing the taping of video.
1981 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 sports car rolled off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. This one made no use of gigawatts in any way.
2004 – The Mars Rover Spirit abruptly stopped transmitting. Apparently too many files had been written to the flash memory and it went into fault mode.
2015 – Microsoft announced more details about Windows 10, the Microsoft Surface Hub, an 84-inch 4K whiteboard TV, and Windows Holographic. Using HoloStudio and HoloLens, Windows Holographic promised to bring holograms into everyday use.
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DTNS 2950 – Troubled by Nosy Apps? Meitu.
In light of the popular but info-hungry Meitu app, why do devices ask for so much info and what’s the harm? Also Note 7 details coming.
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Daily Tech Headlines – January 20, 2017
Popular Meitu app wants a lot of your data, An ebook store comes to Windows 10 preview, What Samsung found caused the Note 7 fires.
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Today in Tech History – January 20, 2017
1929 -The movie In Old Arizona was released. It was the first full-length talking motion picture in the US to be filmed outdoors.
1934 – Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd., the photographic and electronics company known today as Fujifilm, was founded in Tokyo, Japan.
1981 – The inauguration of US President Ronald Reagan became the world’s first broadcast to feature live teletext subtitles for the hearing impaired.
2009 – The inauguration of US President Barack Obama became the most widely-streamed Presidential inauguration to that time. According to Akamai’s Net Usage Index, web traffic peaked at 5.4 million requests per minute — and two terabits per second.
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DTNS 2949 – FB doesn’t want you to RT
The US NHTSA finds Tesla does not need to recall it’s Autopilot driver assistance system. Should it have? Plus Facebook censorship accusations fly from all sides.
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