DTNS 2871 – All the Pixels

Daily Tech News Show / October 4th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comYahoo spied on email for the US Government, Google announces new phones and home products. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss that and more.

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Daily Tech Headlines Part 2 – October 4, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 4th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google Announces Pixel phones, DayDream View VR, Google Home, Google WiFi and Chomecast Ultra.

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Daily Tech Headlines Part 1 – October 4, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 4th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500WhatsApp gets more Snapchat Like, Signal gets subpoenaed and Microsoft disbands the Band.

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Today in Tech History – October 4, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 4th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1957 -The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, becoming the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, and motivating the US to get into gear and heat up the space race.

1985 – Richard Stallman started a non-profit corporation called the Free Software Foundation, dedicated to promoting the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software. The FSF among other things, enforces the copyleft requirements of the GNU General Public License often referred to as the GPL.

2004 – SpaceShipOne returned from its third journey, a reusable spacecraft that could carry passengers beyond the earth’s atmosphere. It won the $10 million Ansari X prize for private spaceflight.

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DTNS 2870 – Robot Baby On Board

Daily Tech News Show / October 3rd, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUse your body to transmit passwords, city-subsidized Uber and Robot babies. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss that and more.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 3, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 3rd, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook competes with Craigslist and slims down Messenger while Google’s Pixel phones leak.

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Today in Tech History – October 3, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 3rd, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1942 – Germany conducted the first successful test of the V-2/A4 rocket, launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde. It traveled 118 miles.

1950 – John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley received US patents for circuits that would eventually be called the transistor.

1967 – Air Force Major William “Pete” Knight flew the rocket-powered X-15 aircraft to 4,520 mph, Mach 6.72. That is the fastest manned aircraft ever flown.

1972 – The first USA/Japan Computer Conference was held in Tokyo.

1985 – STS-51J lifted off Sending the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its maiden flight. It was the fourth shuttle created and eventually became the last shuttle to fly in July 2011.

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Today in Tech History – October 2, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 2nd, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1925 – John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system. It delivered a grayscale 30-line vertically scanned image, at five frames per second. After a ventriloquist’s dummy appeared on screen, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton became the first person televised in full tonal range.

1955 – ENIAC was shut down for the last time. After 11 years running at 5,000 operations a second and taking up 1,000 square feet of floor space, it had earned its retirement.

1996 – US President Bill Clinton signed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act requiring the US government to make electronic documents available online.

2015 – Google officially reorganized, merging with a new parent company called Alphabet. Subsidiaries included Google, Google Fiber, Calico and Life Sciences, Google Ventures and Google Capital, Nest, and Google X. Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google while Larry Page became CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin became President of Alphabet.

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FSL Tonight All-Star Week 2016

FSL Tonight/ Shows / October 1st, 2016

The West plays to win under Davros supervision. But the fans cause the controversy voting in an all-Coruscant starting lineup for the East. Should the fans be allowed to vote at all?

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