Old mics and Radio Shack tech, the Jane Elliott exercise, the Brexit.
DTNS 2798 – Austin as a Service
Do tech-savvy folks need Uber and Lyft? Austin’s carrying out that experiment right now. Justin Young and Tom Merritt talk with Austinites Brian Brushwood and Bryce Castillo about how their dealing with it.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 30, 2016
Android gets a name, Spotify threatens Apple and a new cable connects the Pacific.
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Today in Tech History – June 30, 2016
1945 – The first draft of a Report on the EDVAC was published. It discussed the advantages of using just one large internal memory, in which instructions as well as data could be held.
1948 – Bell Labs introduced the point-contact transistor demonstrated by its inventors, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at a press conference in Murray Hill, NJ.
1948 – The FCC authorization of recording devices in connection with interstate or foreign telephone service went into effect. Users of the service had to be given adequate notice including a tone warning signal at regular intervals.
2015 – Apple launched Apple Music, a streaming service for $10 a month along with radio station Beats One.
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DTNS 2797 – Secretly Listening to Dr. Demento
How transistor radios paved the way for smartphones. Tech historian Tamar Sandel talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about what we owe the cheap radios of the 1950s and 1960s.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 126
Summer Movie Draft, Game of Thrones (610), Justified (211), Preacher (104), Daredevil (213), .
02:12 – Summer Movie Draft
05:19 – Game of Thrones (610)
31:14 – Justified (211)
35:39 – Preacher (104)
38:06 – Daredevil (213)
Daily Tech Headlines – June 29, 2016
Sony starts using robots, Windows 10 gets a release date and Facebook explains the news feed.
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Today in Tech History – June 29, 2016
1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.
1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space Station.
2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.
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#260 – Why Young Adult Is For Everyone W Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde talks to us about Updraft, how she was inspired to create the bone city, and why she doesn’t mind the young adult label but it doesn’t always mean what people say it means.
DTNS 2796 – 50 Shady Grey Markets
Can you have a resale market for digital game codes? Can you have it without fraud and accusations of theft? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.
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