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Today in Tech History – March 25, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 25th, 2017

1925 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s birthday celebration.

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.

1995 – Ward Cunningham installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4-baud dial-up modem.

2014 – Facebook announced it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion.

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DTNS 2994 – FedEx Pays You to Flash

Daily Tech News Show / March 24th, 2017

Why Tom would pay for Twitter, Flying Taxis in Singapore and what is a tech companies responsibility in publishing?

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 24, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 24th, 2017

Twitter researches premium Tweetdeck, Google to remove SMS from hangouts, US Senate votes to remove privacy restrictions from ISPs.

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Today in Tech History – March 24, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 24th, 2017

1802 – Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane of Camborne Parish in the County of Cornwall, enrolled a patent for a steam engine that could power a full-sized road locomotive. He had previously demonstrated it by driving up a hill in a car he called the “Puffing Devil”.

1896 – A. S. Popov made the first radio transmission in human history. Popov is said to have transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building to another on the campus of St. Petersburg University, though the assertion was not published until years later because of the need for military secrecy.

2001 – Apple released its new operating system Mac OS X, code named Cheetah, with a retail price of $130.

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DTNS 2993 – Can You Dig It?

Daily Tech News Show / March 23rd, 2017

Facebook begins calling out hoaxes, more advertisers pull money out of Google, and bipartisan agreement about an internet regulation!

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 23, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 23rd, 2017

Apple buys Workflow app, more big companies pull ads from Google, Nintendo fixes JoyCon problem.

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Today in Tech History – March 23, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 23rd, 2017

1857 – The first department store elevator for passengers was installed at E.V. Haughwout & Co. in New York City. This was a significant development towards the building of skyscrapers.

1882 – Amalie “Emmy” Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany. Albert Einstein called her a mathematical genius. She broke ground in theories of rings, fields and algebra and developed Noether’s theorem which explained the fundamental connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

1996 – The US space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir for the third time, and for the first time dropped off a US astronaut. Shannon Lucid began her record-breaking stay on the space station.

2001 – The final commands to light the engines of the Progress supply ship were sent to the Russian Mir space station, which then broke up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

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#286 – Secrets of a Powder Mage

Shows/ Sword and Laser / March 22nd, 2017

Author Brian McClellan talks with us about his new entry point into the Powder Mage universe, Sins of Empire, why there’s no wrong order to reading his books, and his attitude toward research.

DTNS 2992 – A Little Conductive Foam Fixes Everything

Daily Tech News Show / March 22nd, 2017

Is LastPass secure?, whether to look to LinkedIn for news, and Wired’s Tim Moynihan explains what to fear and what not to fear from thatLithium Ion battery in your pocket.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 162

Cordkillers / March 22nd, 2017

Winter Movie Draft, The Expanse (208), Legion (101), Justified (510).

00:56 – Winter Movie Draft
02:35 – The Expanse (208)
11:47 – Legion (101)
20:32 – Justified (510)

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