DTNS 2863 – #forsale

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTwitter may be up for sale and Facebook has been fudging video numbers, accidentally. Plus Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts ont he YouTube Heroes community effort and talks with Tom Merritt about why privacy matters.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 23, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Twitter up for sale? Yahoo confirms breach, Facebook misreported video views.

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Today in Tech History – September 23, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.

1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.

1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.

2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.

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DTNS 2862 – Yahoo gets their breaches in a bunch

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe scoop behind Yahoo’s 500 million account breach and Lenovo’s inability to run Linux on some laptops. Plus Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss Twitter’s ability to predict elections.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 22, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Yahoo once more may announce a breach, Twitter’s transparency report, Rocket Internet cuts costs.

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Today in Tech History – September 22, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1791 – Michael Faraday was born in south London. He grew up to discover electromagnetic induction and coined the terms ‘electrode’, ‘cathode’ and ‘ion.’ He also lent his name to the Faraday cage.

1986 – In NEC Corp. Vs. Intel Corp., the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that microprograms are copyrightable literary works. And so all the trouble began.

2011 – Facebook announced its new Timeline feature which would collect all your posts and materials in chronological order, replacing the old profile.

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DTNS 2861 – Motion Sickness or Regular Sickness?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIs it risky to use Allo? Should Apple by McLaren Auto? Plus Chris Kohler talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about the Tokyo Game Show.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 21, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google backtracks on Allo privacy, AT&T announces multi gig wireless project, Apple looks into buying McLaren Automotive.

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Today in Tech History – September 21, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1866 – Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, England. He would grow up to write under the name H. G. Wells and help form the genre of science fiction.

1999 – Google came out of beta. The young company announced its new Google Scout feature and the launch of its new website, removing the beta designation from the Google search engine.

2000 – Kevin Mitnick was released from a Lompoc, California prison after almost five years of incarceration.

2015 – Christopher Poole aka ‘moot’ sold 4Chan to its inspiration 2Channel. Hiroyuki Nishimura became 4Chan’s president.

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