DTNS 2907 – Don’t Call It A Soft Launch

Daily Tech News Show / November 19th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com Facebook is sorry you think they’re to blame for fake news, Amazon did not launch in Australia, and NYPD Hackers.

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Today in Tech History – November 19, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 19th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston, Mass. received the first US patent for an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals. The so-called “calculating machine,” proved impractical.

1967 – Hong Kong TV, the first free over the air commercial television station in Hong Kong was established. Today it is known as TVB.

1981 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos banned video games, citing such insidious examples as Space Invaders and Asteroids as a “destructive social enemy, the electrical bandit.”

2006 – The Nintendo Wii launched in North America.

2007 – Amazon launched an e-reader called the Kindle that used an e-ink screen.

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DTNS 2906 – Breach Blanket Bingo

Daily Tech News Show / November 18th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comData breaches are everywhere but maybe not as widespread as you thought. Darren Kitchen talks with Len Peralta about the prevealnce of fake breaches and what you can do to protect yourself against real ones.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 18, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 18th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon 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

Today in Tech History logo1883 – 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

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comSpaceEx 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

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Qualcomm 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

Today in Tech History logo1790 – 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

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comMicrosoft 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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