Daily Tech Headlines – August 11, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 11th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The US FCC can’t force muni broadband, Snapchat takes down controversial filter, Google applies for more wireless broadband testing.

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Today in Tech History – August 11, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 11th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1942 – Hedy Markey and composer George Antheil received a US patent for a frequency-hopping device. The technique has led to many advancements in wireless technology including Wi-Fi. Markey was better known under her stage name of Hedy Lamarr.

1950 – Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California. He would grow up to invent the first successful personal computer, and revolutionize desktop computing.

1965 – Shinji Mikami was born in Japan. He grew up to become a video game designer for Capcom, revolutionizing survival-horror games with his popular series, Resident Evil.

1994 – Net Market founder Dan Kohn watched his friend buy a Sting CD online from Net Market using his credit card. This is sometimes considered the first ecommerce transaction.

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DTNS 2829 – Virtual (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Daily Tech News Show / August 10th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle aims to prevent trolling in VR with better game design. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss the peculiar trolling opportunities of virtual reality.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 10, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 10th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel invests in deep learning, Disney does sports streaming, and Twitter expands Moments.

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Today in Tech History – August 10, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 10th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1519 – Ferdinand Magellan set sail to find that pesky trade route that Columbus was looking for, and instead circumnavigated the globe. Well, at least his ship did.

1990 – The Magellan space probe, named after Ferdinand Magellan, reached Venus, beginning its mission to map the planet’s surface.

2004 – The iTunes Music Store library passed the mark of 1,000,000 songs available.

2015 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a new company called Alphabet had been created to oversee a slimmed down Google as well as other companies Google owned like Calico, Nest and more. Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the new Google. Alphabet continued to be traded under the stock tickers GOOG and GOOGL.

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DTNS 2828 – Facebook Ad Infinitum

Daily Tech News Show / August 9th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comFacebook has a magical way to get around ad blockers but gives you more control over what ads you see. Are you still mad? Iyaz Akhtar and Tom Merritt would like to know.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 9, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 9th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook blocks ad-blockers, NBC goes to Snapchat, and the Whitehouse talks Open Source.

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Today in Tech History – August 9, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 9th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1859 – US Patent no. 25,076 was issued to Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass. for the first escalator-type moving staircase.

1927 – Computer pioneer Marvin Minsky was born in New York City. Minsky grew up to become a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence research and wrote the book “The Society of Mind.”

1995 – Netscape Communications staged an IPO. Shares opened at $28 and shot up to $75 per share in one day, becoming one of the indicators of the beginning of the dot-com boom.

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