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DTNS 2895 – Everything Is Awesome!

Daily Tech News Show / November 4th, 2016

Jenn Cutter talks with Tom Merritt about why toy-based video games aren’t just for kids anymore. Plus Samsung recalls a washing machine, Microsoft has a new way of updating Windows and rich text messaging is a mess.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 4, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 4th, 2016

GoPro plummets in earnings, Google teams up with NFL on VR and PSVue comes to the browser.

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Today in Tech History – November 4, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 4th, 2016

1879 – James Jacob Ritty patented the first cash register as “Ritty’s Incorruptible Cashier”. He was motivated to invent it by the no-good thieving employees at his saloon.

1939 – Packard Motor Co. exhibited the first air-conditioned automobile at the 40th Automobile Show in Chicago, Illinois.

1952 – Fresh off census duty, the UNIVAC computer projected General Dwight David Eisenhower would defeat Adlai Stevenson for President of the US. All the polls showed Stevenson had a clear advantage so CBS delayed using the projection fearing inaccuracy.

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DTNS 2894 – MacBook Pros and Cons

Daily Tech News Show / November 3rd, 2016

Google tells Europe to buzz off about antirust, HTC bets on Virtual Reality arcades and why everyone is mad at Apple over MacBook Pros.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 3, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 3rd, 2016

Huawei unveils the huge Mate 9, Facebook kills earnings, runs out of room for ad growth, Twitch takes on ad blockers.

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Today in Tech History – November 3, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 3rd, 2016

1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 carrying the first animal ever to enter orbit, a dog named Laika. It would go on to inspire the saddest Jonathan Coulton song ever, “Space Doggity” and the band Laika and the Cosmonauts.

1973 – NASA launched Mariner 10 towards Mercury. It would become the first space probe to reach the planet.

1992 – Tim Berners-Lee posted a page describing the World Wide Web. It’s the oldest page still served on the Web.

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DTNS 2893 – There’s No i In Teams (Because It’s Microsoft Not Apple)

Daily Tech News Show / November 2nd, 2016

How mobile will our Internet usage get? Tom Merritt and Justin Robert Young discuss what a shift to mobile first Internet usage will mean. Plus Insurance companies and Protestors all trying to manipulate Facebook data, and Microsoft Teams up on Slack.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 143 w/ Shannon Morse

Cordkillers / November 2nd, 2016

Black Mirror (303-306), Westworld (105), Justified (403)

01:02 – Winter Movie Draft
04:00 – Black Mirror (303-306)
30:50 – Westworld (104)
41:59 – Justified (403)

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 2, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / November 2nd, 2016

Microsoft launches competitors for Slack and IFTT, Adobe shows off its 3D and Ai smarts.

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Today in Tech History – November 2, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / November 2nd, 2016

1815 – George Boole was born in Lincolnshire, England AND he became a mathematician who laid down the foundations for Boolean logic XOR Boolean Algebra. Search engine power users everywhere thank him.

1920 – KDKA in Pittsburgh started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station in the US. The first broadcast? Election results. Actual results, not projections.

1936 – BBC Television Service went on the air with the world’s first regular “high definition” service. Back then high definition meant 200 lines not 1080. The channel became BBC One in 1964.

1988 – The Morris Worm began replicating across 6,000 computers causing slow systems and proving difficult to eradicate. 24-year-old Robert Tappan Morris Jr. at MIT had created the worm in order to see how many computers were hooked up to the Internet.

2015 – Hewlett-Packard split into two companies. HPE handled enterprise services and traded under the stock ticker HPE. HP Inc. kept the PC and printer business and the stock ticker HP.

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