DTNS 2788 – Hacker Curious?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHackers get a bad rap and people sometimes fear the wrong things. Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse from Hak5 bust some common misconceptions about hacking using hacker movies as examples. And Len Peralta is here to illustrate!

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 17, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Android apps come to Chromebooks, iPhones banned in Beijing and a Robot goes wandering.

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Today in Tech History – June 17, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1936 – Edwin Armstrong presented FM radio at FCC headquarters. Armstrong played a jazz record over conventional AM radio, then switched to an FM broadcast. “[I]f the audience of 50 engineers had shut their eyes they would have believed the jazz band was in the same room.”

1946 – The first mobile telephone call was made from a car in St. Louis, Missouri.

1997 – Programmers deciphered code written in the impenetrable Data Encryption Standard, the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States. The hackers organized over the Internet and cracked the software in five months, proving that stronger encryption was needed.

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DTNS 2787 – Bots in the Belfry

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comBots can order food or rides, schedule meetings and be our bus friends. What else do we want bots to do? Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 16, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung buys the cloud, Stamford Wallace goes to jail, a small town with big fiber.

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Today in Tech History – June 16, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1911 – The Tabulating Company (founded by Herman Hollerith), the Computing Scale Company, and the International Time Recording Company merged to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. They would later change the company name to International Business Machines,and later just IBM.

1963 – Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times.

1977 – Software Development Laboratories was incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. They later came up with the catchier name, Oracle.

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DTNS 2786 – Three Devs & A Normie

DTNormieS_1400x1400_coverart It’s another installment of the Daily Tech Normie Show with Jennie Josephson, developers David Still, David Brooks and a time-shifted Alasdair Smith. Jennie asks the devs every question she’s ever wanted to know about how not to upset their kind!

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If you want to follow David Still on twitter it’s really easy. Just click here!

If you want to find David Brooks, well, he’s outside checking out the real world, and I think that’s cool.

Here’s that PC World article that walks you through adding God Mode to your Windows desktop. But you knew that already.

And yeah, it kinda sounds like a weird hissy YouTube wind tunnel when I talk. But would it *really* be a Normie Show w/out it? Think of it as bonus white noise.

DTNS 2785 – Rhapster

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comDo we need conferences anymore? When companies can stream straight to customers what’s the point to the expense of an E3 or CES? Raj Deut, Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 15, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Safari ditches flash, SMS returns to Facebook Messenger for Android and you can now retweet yourself.

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