DTNS 2841 – WhatsApp with my Privacy?

Daily Tech News Show / August 25th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comApple and WhatsApp have different messaging strategies. Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss whether either cares about its users.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 25, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 25th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Self-driving cars come to the public in Singapore, WhatsApp starts sharing data with Facebook, Apple may be developing a Snapchat competitor

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Today in Tech History – August 25, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 25th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1609 – Galileo Galilei craftily beat a Dutch telescope maker to an appointment with the Doge of Venice. Galileo impressed the Doge and received a lifetime appointment and a doubled salary. Later that autumn, Galileo pointed his telescope to the Moon, and trouble began.

1981 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn. Eight years later on the same day in 1989, Voyager 2 would make its closest approach to Neptune.

1991 – 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds wrote a newsgroup post about a free operating system he was working on. He said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu.” His OS would eventually be called Linux.

2014 – Amazon announced it had acquired Twitch.TV the popular video game streaming site. Rumors had indicated Google was going to buy the company, but the deal fell through.

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DTNS 2840a – The Messenger is the Medium

Daily Tech News Show / August 24th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comChat interfaces are being used in news and fiction apps, but they’e not bots. Is it a fad, or is your text message screen the format of the future? Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 24, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 24th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google demotes full screen ads, PlayStation Now comes to Windows, Tesla juices its battery.

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Today in Tech History – August 24, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 24th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1456 – According to a handwritten note by illustrator Heinrich Cremer, the final binding of the Gutenberg Bible took place.

1965 – Ted Nelson presented a paper called “A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate” at the Association for Computing Machinery. In it he used the word “hypertext” a term he made up.

1995 – Microsoft released Windows 95. During development it was referred to as Windows 4.0 or by the internal codename “Chicago.”

2001 – WebKit received its first commit of code from Apple. The Safari browser appeared two years later and WebKit was open sourced in 2005.

2011 – Steve jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, handing over the job to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.

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DTNS 2839 – Instapapers Please!

Daily Tech News Show / August 23rd, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comPassport and social network id please? Should US border control be able to ask for your Twitter handle? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 23, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 23rd, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon’s $5 music service, Level 5 autonomous cars by 2019, More Microsoft pre-loaded software on Android.

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