Neil Gaiman is running a new TV show and we’re excited! Plus the Arrival folks are making a Larry Niven short story into a show, and indie bookstores are booming! We also kick-off Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads.
DTNS 2958a – Face-top Box
Robot sales are rising! Why machine vision and the Internet of Things is causing a revolution in factories and what that could mean for jobs. Plus EU eliminates roaming charges and Facebook might be making a TV app.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 155
Winter Movie Draft, The Young Pope (101, 102), Justified (503).
00:34 – Winter Movie Draft
05:37 – The Young Pope (101, 102)
17:03 – Justified (503)
Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2017
Tech headlines for 20170201.
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DFP #11 – The Man Behind Glass
Who is behind glass? We may never know. But we do get to meet Harold and his orchids, so we got that going for us.
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Today in Tech History – February 1, 2017
1951 -TV viewers witnessed the live detonation of an atomic bomb blast, as KTLA in Los Angeles broadcast the explosion of a nuclear device dropped on Frenchman Flats, Nevada.
1972 – Hewlett-Packard introduced the first scientific handheld calculator, the famous HP-35 for $395. It was the first handheld calculator to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke.
1985 – Shortly after its founding the November before, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute kicked off operations.
1997 – Dave Winer changed how he displayed ‘Scripting News’ so that it always showed the last ten days of posts. In other words, the way every blog does it now. Whether this makes it the ‘first blog’ or not, it was extremely influential and is definitely one of the oldest blogs out there, predating the term blog, of course.
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DTNS 2957a – There’s no place like ::
Ethan Banks from Packet Pushers joins us to explain why you need to know about the IPv6 transition.
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Daily Tech Headlines – January 31, 2017
Nintendo earnigns OK for now, AI wins at poker.
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Today in Tech History – January 31, 2017
1958 – The United States successfully entered the space age with the successful launch of the Explorer I satellite. Data from the satellite confirmed the existence of the Van Allen radiation belt circling the Earth.
1961 – The US launched a four-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
1971 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell lifted off on the Apollo 14 mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
2013 – The Consumer Electronics Association announced it was awarding the Dish Hopper co-winner of Best of CES and would begin searching for a new awards partner. CBS had forced CNET editors not to award Dish a prize due to ongoing litigation between the two companies.
2015 – Troy Bradley of the US and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev landed the Two Eagles Balloon off the Baja coast near La Poza Grande, Mexico. They beat the world distance and duration record. They stayed aloft for 6 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes traveling 6,646 miles.
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Cordkillers 155 – Millennials are Not a Fixed Species (w/ Andrew Mayne)
What millennials watch, the state of Apple TV’s single sign-on, and Comcast is doing well. With special guest Andrew Mayne. (http://twitter.com/andrewmayne)