Daily Tech Headlines – January 26, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 26th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Hugo Barra leaves Xiaomi for Facebook, HTC’s designer joins Google’s DayDream, and Apple may join the AI industry group.

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Today in Tech History – January 26, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 26th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1926 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of a broadcast television picture that delivered a recognizable human face. Previously he could only broadcast silhouettes.

1932 – The US Patent Office received a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a “Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions.”

1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory saw first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope. Hubble photographed Hubble’s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261).

1983 – Lotus began selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. It would quickly become the most popular spreadsheet software but not make the transition to Windows well and fall behind Excel permanently.

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DTNS 2953 – Curing Curation

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com Facebook reconsiders personalized curation of trending topics, T-Mobile adds a free year of Hulu for AT&T customers who jump ship and Amazon makes waves as it goes into the ocean shipping business.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 25, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Cisco buys AppDynamics, D-Wave releases a new quantumish computer, and Wine 2.0 is released.

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DFP #10 – Coma

Shows / January 25th, 2017

It’s with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Miguel Ferrer, who portrayed Special Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks. It’s fitting that we welcome special guest, Gabriel Hardman who is the biggest fan of Albert we know. Recorded before Ferrer’s passing, we dive into the second episode of season 2, with an extra special moment involving stools.

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Today in Tech History – January 25, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 25th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company in agreement with the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China and several other Asian countries.

1915 – AT&T inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, CA The line had been completed the previous summer too early for the Panama Pacific Exposition, where it was introduced.

1921 – A play called Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) by Karel Capek debuted at the National Theater in Prague. It was the first appearance of the word robot. Spoiler alert, the robots end up killing all the humans but one.

1979 – Robert Williams was killed on the job in a Flat Rock, Michigan, casting plant, becoming the first recorded human death by robot.

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DTNS 2952 – Hello, Computer

Daily Tech News Show / January 24th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHyperloops keep making promises but can they actually deliver? Plus US court denies government the right to email on foreign servers and Samsung hoards all the chips. Plus Amazon adds a new wake word.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 24, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 24th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung makes money, Yahoo beats expectations, Verizon miss expectations and delays acquisition of Yahoo.

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Today in Tech History – January 24, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 24th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1935 – Krueger’s Cream Ale and Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, Virginia in cans, developed by the American Can Company. Cans protected beer better than translucent bottles.

1950 – Percy LeBaron Spencer received a patent for a “Method of Treating Foodstuffs” which we would recognize as the microwave oven. Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.

1984 – The original Macintosh was introduced becoming the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface.

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