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Daily Tech Headlines – November 18, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 18th, 2016

Amazon Echo can send texts, Apple reduces cost of fixing touch disease, and Baidu dumps BMW.

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Today in Tech History – November 18, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 18th, 2016

1883 – US and Canadian railways adopted five standardized time zones to replace the multitude of local times scattered across North America. It was called “The Day of Two Noons” as each railroad station clock was reset as standard-time noon was reached within each time zone.

1928 – Steamboat Willie premiered at Universal’s Colony Theater in New York City. It was the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was also the first official appearance of Mickey Mouse. Happy birthday Mickey, now give us back a reasonable public domain date.

1977 – A startup called Microsoft, fresh off developing its own version of FORTRAN, won the right in arbitration to license its version of BASIC, previously licensed exclusively through MITS, makers of the Altair.

2012 – The Nintendo Wii U launched in North America. The console did not yet feature it TVii service but did require a 5GB download which took over an hour to update the console’s software.

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DTNS 2905 – SpaceXfinity

Daily Tech News Show / November 17th, 2016

SpaceEx and OneWeb are in a race to bring worldwide high speed Internet by satellite. Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss the latest from them and more.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 17, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 17th, 2016

Qualcomm introduced new 10-nanometer Snapdragon chip, LinkedIn blocked in Russia, UK passes snooping bill.

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Today in Tech History – November 17, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 17th, 2016

1790 – August Ferdinand Mobius was born in Schulpforta, Saxony. The mathematician, astronomer and physicist is most well remembered for the discovery of the Mobius strip, a 2-dimensional object with only one side when embedded in 3D space. Poor Johann Benedict Listing also discovered it at the same time but Listing strip just doesn’t have the same ring.

1947 – Walter Brattain dumped a semiconductor experiment into a thermos of water and unexpectedly saw a large amplification of electricity. Working with John Bardeen they developed it into a new amplifier that would eventually be called the transistor.

1970 – The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

1971 – The Kenbak-1 desktop computer was advertised for sale in ComputerWorld for $750 It had first been advertised in Scientific American in September. The 8-bit computer had 256 bytes of memory and was dubbed the world’s first commercially available personal computer by a panel of experts involving Steve Wozniak.

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DTNS 2904(a) – We Like Big Drives and We Can Not Lie (Corrected File)

Daily Tech News Show / November 16th, 2016

Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, Snapchat files for an IPO and more resources for avoiding fake news. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss that and more!

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 145 (w/ Justin Robert Young)

Cordkillers / November 16th, 2016

Arrival, Westworld (107), Justified (405). With special guest Justin Robert Young.

01:28 – Winter Movie Draft
06:13 – Arrival
25:19 – Westworld (107)
57:46 – Justified (405)

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 16, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 16th, 2016

Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, Facebook fixes ad reporting mistakes, Snapchat files for IPO.

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Today in Tech History – November 16, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 16th, 2016

1904 – Sir John Ambrose Fleming went “scudding down Gower Street” in London on his way to patenting the “oscillation valve” which we fondly call the Vacuum Tube. His patent was later invalidated by the US supreme court, but that didn’t stop Fleming from being Knighted and receiving a medal of honor from the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1965 – The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus. It would become the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet, though it failed to return data.

2000 – ICANN announced its decision to include 7 new top-level domains giving birth to the .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and .pro, TLDs.

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DTNS 2903 – Only YOU Can Prevent Fake News!

Daily Tech News Show / November 15th, 2016

Twitter adds new mute feature, US demands cars not be silent, and how to identify good Internet news sources. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss those stories and more.

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