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Sunday Science Supplement for October 24, 2021 – DTH

DTH-6-150x150This week, we had several global automakers announcing new battery plants in North America, aiming for a major expansion of capacity within the next five years. Dr. Nicole Ackermans switches on some science facts about EV batteries and the environmental impact.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 10, 2021 – DTH

DTH-6-150x150This week, Dr. Nicole Ackermans looks at changes Google is making to Maps, Search, and other apps to inform users of the climate impact.

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Sunday Science Supplement for October 3, 2021 – DTH

DTH-6-150x150This week, Dr. Nicole Ackermans plunges into the murky depths to look at the science of undersea internet cables.

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Apple Announces October 13 iPhone Event – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Google renames G Suite to Google Workspace, Sony is bullish on PS5 sales, Facebook adds Netflix support to Portal line.

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The Facebook Oversight Board to Hear Appeals in October – DTH

DTH-6-150x150The Facebook Oversight Board will begin hearing appeals in mid to late October, Samsung announces the Galaxy S20 Fan Edition, and United Airlines plans a trial to provide COVID-19 tests ahead of flights.

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Tech News from October 1992 – DTNS 3435

The DTNS gang go back in time to Oct 1992 to debate the wonders of the nascent consumer CD-ROM technologies.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Rich Stroffolino

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Today in Tech History – – October 31, 2018

2000 – The Soyuz TM-31 launched, carrying Expedition 1 the first resident crew to the International Space Station, including Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Krikalev and William Shepherd. The TM-31 was used as the crew’s lifeboat while on the station.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2000/iss00-43.html

2000 – Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and Napster agreed to develop a service for swapping and sharing music. The service never materialized.

http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/10/31/bizbuzz/napster/

2007 – Nintendo of Japan finally ended support for the repair of FamiCom game consoles, the Japanese name for NES, citing a shortage of parts. End of an 8-bit era.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/nintendo-of-japan-calling-it-quits-on-famicom-hardware-support/

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Today in Tech History – – October 30, 2018

1938 – Orson Welles pwned the US radio audience with his famous broadcast of War of the Worlds. It was correctly introduced as theater but those not paying attention were fooled into thinking the play was the real thing.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation

1987 – NEC started selling the first 16-bit home entertainment system, called the TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem or in Japan, the shorter catchier PC Engine. It was originally more popular in Japan than the FamiCom, which we North Americans call the NES.

http://www.giantbomb.com/turbografx-16/60-55/

2012 – Disney and George Lucas announced that Disney would acquire 100 percent of LucasFilm, including ILM, LucasArts and Skywalker Sound. The company also announced it intended to release Star Wars: Episode 7 in 2015.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/30/disney-star-wars-lucasfilm/1669739/

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Today in Tech History – – October 29, 2018

1675 – Gottfreid Leibniz wrote the integral sign in an unpublished manuscript. It’s a sign that would later haunt the nightmares of students and be widely misapplied on blackboards in movies. So happy Integral Day!

http://books.google.com/books?id=bOIGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=leibniz+writes+integral&source=bl&ots=U_vboOt1rM&sig=ojXqmr8IEIWcrbOdC2UlM94fW5g&hl=en&ei=uyWbTr2dCdHbiALn_f3WBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=leibniz%20writes%20integral&f=false

1969 – The first ever computer to computer link was established on the ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline sent the characters l and o to Stanford. The connection crashed before he could finish sending ‘login’. The Internet has been crashy right from the start.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/birthplace-of-the-internet-celebrates-111333

1988 – Sega launched the Mega Drive console in Japan. It would be released elsewhere in the world later as the ‘Genesis.’

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-true-16-bit-experience-segas-genesis-turns-25

1998 – The Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-95.html

2013 – Motorola announced its modular phone project called Project ARA. It would end up becoming Google’s project after Google sold Motorola.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/motorola-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

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Today in Tech History – – October 28, 2018

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.

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=1028

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.

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520

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.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/dmca-ten-years-unintended-consequences

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

Read Tom’s science fiction and other fiction books at Merritt’s Books site.