Winter Movie Draft, Moana, Justified (408), Westworld (110).
00:51 – Winter Movie Draft
03:29 – Moana
08:31 – Justified (408)
16:07 – Westworld (110)
Daily Tech Headlines – December 7, 2016
Fitbit acquires Pebble and shuts it down, Softbank and Hon Hai to invest in US, Sony security cameras vulnerable to attack.
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Today in Tech History – December 7, 2016
1962 – Ferranti Ltd. switched on the Atlas, the UK’s first supercomputer. It was the most powerful computer in the world at the time and doubled the UK’s scientific computing capability.
1963 – The CBS broadcast of the college football game between Army and Navy featured the first use of video instant replay during a sports telecast. Some people got confused and called to complain.
1972 – The last Apollo moon mission, Apollo 17 was launched. The crew took the famous Blue Marble picture that now graces desktop background everywhere.
1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America sued 6-month-old Napster. The Industry refused to settle, thus insuring that digital music sales would remain low for years to come.
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DTNS 2917 – Patrick’s Wonderful and Amazing Video Game Holiday Shopping List
Wearables gets some bad Q3 news but everybody denies it and Patrick Beja tells Tom Merritt his video game picks of the year.
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 6, 2016
Samsung wins at the Supreme Court, Big tech teams up to fight terrorist imagery, EU approved Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn.
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Today in Tech History – December 6, 2016
1877 – Thomas Edison tested out his new phonograph invention, by recording the first lines of the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” He recreated the event in 1927.
1957 – Responding to Sputnik, the United States launched the Vanguard TV3. The rocket only made it a little over a meter off the launchpad before it fell back and was destroyed. A fuel leak was thought to have caused the failure.
2006 – NASA revealed photographs from the Martian Global Surveyor, of two craters called Terra Sirenum and Centauri Montes which appeared to show evidence that water existed on the surface of Mars, as recently as five years before.
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Cordkillers 148 – Fly Me To the Moonves
How did the DirecTV Now launch go? Netflix allows downloads and Amazon adds HBO.
DTNS 2916 – 10 The Internet Is People!!!!!
Amazon opens a convenience store and more Ai goes open source. Plus Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss whether there’s a line between real life and online anymore.
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Daily Tech Headlines – December 5, 2016
Amazon opens a grocery store, Google brings back location tracking, Canada asks for more surveillance powers.
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Today in Tech History – December 5, 2016
1766 – James Christie held his first sale on Pall Mall in London. Christie’s still operates auctions today and is much more civilized than EBAY.
1901 – At 2156 Tripp Avenue in Chicago, Elias and Flora welcomed their new baby boy into the world. They had no idea at the time that Mickey Mouse had also come into the world along with their son, Walt Disney.
1901 – Physicist Werner Heisenberg was born. We may not know both his precise position and precise momentum at the same time, but we are certain he was born in Wurzburg, Germany.
2014 – NASA’s Orion space capsule made its first successful test flight. The capsule was unmanned but made two orbits before successfully splashing down in the Pacific.
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