Daily Tech Headlines – March 30, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 30th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500AppAnnie predicts rising app revenue, No, you can’t buy individual congressional representative’s data, Lyft starts a fixed route shuttle service.

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Today in Tech History – March 30, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 30th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo240 BC – Chinese astronomers observed a new broom-shaped “star” in the sky. It was the first confirmed sighting of Halley’s Comet.

1950 – Bell Telephone Laboratories announced the invention of a new kind of electric eye called the phototransistor. Dr. John Northrup Shive invented the transistor, which operated by light rather than electricity.

1951 – The Census UNIVAC System was accepted and subsequently devoted almost exclusively to tabulating results of the 1950 Census of Population and Housing. It was the first UNIVAC and was capable of completing 1,905 operations per second, which it stored on magnetic tape.

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DTNS 2997 – Galaxy fan’s appetites S8ed

Daily Tech News Show / March 29th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comSamsung announces first new phones since Note 7 recall, plus US ISP privacy law passed and Windows 10 update release set.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 29, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 29th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung announces new S8 phones, Gear VR headset and Gear 360 camera. Microsoft sets date for Windows 10 Creators Update, Intel promises 10-nanometer chips by end of year.

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Today in Tech History – March 29, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 29th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1941 – 80% of US AM radio frequencies were reassigned to new channels as part of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement.

1945 – German soldiers blew the launch tracks for the V-1 rocket site near Letelle, Netherlands, ending the rocket attacks.

1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first space probe to cross the orbit of Mercury about 704 km from the surface.

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DTNS 2996 – This IS Brain Surgery

Daily Tech News Show / March 28th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comProgrammable mammal cells, why your bank teller will soon be AI and then after that you may plug AI directly into your own brain.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 28, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 28th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook adds stories to main app, Twitter adds ads to Periscope streams, Ikea unleashes its smart lighting system on the world.

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Today in Tech History – March 28, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 28th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1905 – Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania received a patent for the “Art of Transmitting Intelligence.” It was the forerunner of the modern fax.

1935 – Robert Goddard launched the first rocket equipped with gyroscopic controls near Roswell, New Mexico. The rocket reached an altitude of 4,800 feet and flew 13,000 feet at a speed of 550 mph.

1979- A combination of equipment malfunction and human error caused a partial reactor meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. While no injuries or deaths have been attributed to the accident, it changed US nuclear attitudes significantly.

2016 – The first Oculus Rift VR headsets for consumers began being delivered. Co-founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first one the weekend before to Ross Martin in Alaska who had been the first to pre-order.

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