Daily Tech Headlines – April 20, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 20th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Chrome might get an ad blocker, Facebook wants to read your brain, and Microsoft replaces Wunderlist.

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Today in Tech History – April 20, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 20th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1926 – Sam Warner approved the sound-on-disc system created by Western Electric and created the Vitaphone company to develop the process to add sound to film.

1940 – Vladimir Zworykin and his team from RCA demonstrated the first electron microscope. It measured 10 feet high and weighed half a ton, achieving a magnification of 100,000x.

1964 – The first AT&T picturephone transcontinental call was made between test displays at Disneyland and the New York World’s Fair.

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DTNS 3012 – Nintentional Scarcity

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comChina’s Baidu’s move to capture the self-driving car market, Alphabet’s move to use data to discover ways to stop people getting sick, plus our picks for to-do management.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 19, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook’s announcements from F8, Microsoft offers password-free login, Baidu opens up autonomous car platform.

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Today in Tech History – April 19, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 19th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1947 – A report appeared in Billboard magazine of the first public demonstration of the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar lens. The National Broadcasting Company in New York City conducted the demo and the zoom lens soon became standard TV equipment.

1957 – The first non-test FORTRAN program was compiled and run by Herbert Bright, manager of the data processing center at Westinghouse. It produced a missing comma diagnostic. Once fixed, a successful attempt followed.

1965 – “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” by Gordon Moore was published in Electronics. Moore projected that over the next ten years the number of components per chip would double every 12 months. By 1975 he turned out to be right, and the doubling became immortalized as “Moore’s law.”

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DTNS 3011 – A F8-ful Day

Daily Tech News Show / April 18th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy AR is the future of Facebook, Gurman-class iPhone rumors and esports goes Olympic-ish.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 18, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 18th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple rumored to have three new phones, Intel cancels IDF, Snapchat adds some Augmented Reality.

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Today in Tech History – April 18, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 18th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1925 – The first commercial radio facsimile transmission was sent from San Francisco, California to New York City. It was a photograph showing Louis B. Mayer presenting Marion Davies with a gift.

1930 – BBC Radio made the startling announcement that nothing terribly important had happened. Listeners who tuned in to hear the news bulletin were told, “There is no news,” followed by piano music.

1986 – Newspapers reported that IBM had become the first to use a megabit chip, a memory chip capable of storing one million bits of information, in its Model 3090.

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