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Daily Tech Headlines – October 28, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 28th, 2016

Apple’s new MacBooks, a merger of internet titans, RIP Vine.
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Today in Tech History – October 28, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 28th, 2016

1793 – Eli Whitney applied to patent his improved cotton gin, capable of cleaning 50 pounds of lint per day, and powering patent metaphors and arguments for centuries to come.

1955 – A pair of proud Seattle parents welcomed their new son into the world, having no idea he would become one of the most loved and hated men of all time. Happy birthday William Henry Gates the third. You know him as Bill.

1998 – President Bill Clinton signed into law the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, making it illegal for you to use computers the way they were designed to be used, if big companies didn’t want you to.

2014 – The W3C published its recommendation of HTML5, the final version of the standard. It included the video and canvas tags among other improvements.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 25, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 25th, 2016

Xiaomi’s new bezel-free phone, first self-driving truck delivers beer, 8Gbps WiFi gets certified.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 21, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 21st, 2016

Denial of Service hits major sites’ DNS, Microsoft earnings rise high, and evidence port in against former NSA contractor Thomas Martin.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 20, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 20th, 2016

Nintendo reveals the Nintendo Switch tablet/console hybrid. Tesla adds self-driving to all its cars, China’s LeEco announces all the things.

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Today in Tech History – October 19, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 19th, 2016

1832 – Samuel Morse first conceived of the electric telegraph system. At least he said later this was the day he first thought of it.

1941 – The Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine first fed AC power to the electric grid on Grandpa’s Knob in Castleton, Vermont, becoming the first wind machine to do so. The 1.25 MW turbine operated for 1100 hours before a blade failed.

1973 – The Atanasoff-Berry Computer finally got its due. US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer. But ENIAC still incorrectly gets the credit from many to this day.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 18, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 18th, 2016

Apple hires AI prof, 1Gbps phone data comes to Australia and 5Gbps coming in 2018. Singapore’s autonomous car has its first fender bender.

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Today in Tech History – October 14, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 14th, 2016

1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than 100 years until digital stole its thunder.

1977 – The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.

1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.

1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the enduser of Linux.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 12, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 12th, 2016

Amazon’s new music service, Apple expands in china, Microsoft Hololens comes to Europe.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 5, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 5th, 2016

Yahoo accused of scanning for the NSA, A Nobel prize for nano machines, and hacks on insulin pumps.

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