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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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DFP #18 – Dispute Between Brothers

Shows / March 22nd, 2017

It’s three days later and we try to find the direction for the show for the rest of the season. With that, H. Perry Horton of Film School Rejects joins us to say goodbye to Agent Cooper…several times.

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Today in Tech History – March 22, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 22nd, 2017

1895 – The Lumiere brothers showed their first film to an audience. It was a romantic comedy about a crowd of mostly women leaving a building.

1960 – Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes were granted the first patent for a laser (US. No. 2,929,922) under the title “Masers and Maser Communications System.”

1981 – RCA’s first SelectaVision VideoDisc the SFT100W went on sale. The machine used Capacitance Electronic Discs to fit a couple hours of video programming on a 12-inch vinyl disc that sold for around $15.

1993 – The Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips featuring 60 and 66 MHz CPUs.

2016 – Sony began taking orders for its Playstation VR headset. The first pre-orders were for a $499 bundle including the headset as well as Move controllers and a camera.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 22, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 22nd, 2017

Android O now in previews, Reddit changes profiles, and Airbnb rebrands in China.

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DTNS 2991 – Redditbook

Daily Tech News Show / March 21st, 2017

Google releases Android O, Apple tweaks the iPhones and Reddit changes to be a bit more like Facebook.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 21, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 21st, 2017

Apple’s new iPhones and iPads, US restricts large electronics in some flights, Google and Twitter crack down on extremist content.

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