DTNS 2748 – Execute Rule 41

Daily Tech News Show / April 29th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe Supreme Court amends court procedures to make it easier to get a warrant to search remote servers. A boon to legitimate law enforcement investigations or open door to trampling privacy? Tom Merritt and Darren Kitchen discuss.

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Today in Tech History – April 29, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 29th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1882 – Ernst Werner von Siemens presented his “trackless trolley” called the “Elektromote” in a Berlin suburb. The system pulled electricity from overhead wires, but used road wheels instead of tracks.

1953 – KECA-TV, an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, California, broadcast the first US experimental 3D-TV. An episode of Space Patrol required specially polarized glasses to watch.

2005 – Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, introducing spotlight search and dashboard functionality.

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DTNS 2747 – A Wolfram Ate My Homework

Daily Tech News Show / April 28th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhat funding fade? Justin Young reports back from the Collision Conference in New Orleans with tales to tell Tom Merritt of bots and natural language processing.

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Today in Tech History – April 28, 2016

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

20140404-073853.jpg2001 – Dennis Tito became the first “space tourist” in human history paying his own way to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

2003 – Apple opened the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99 cents a piece. Songs could play on any iPod and up to three authorised Macs. Windows users were out of luck but tracks could be burned to unlimited numbers of CDs.

2003 – Apple unveiled the “third-generation” iPod. The new iPods were thinner and featured the bottom Dock Connector port rather than the top-mounted FireWire port. The iPod controls also became entirely touch sensitive.

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DTNS 2746 – Blizzard Streisand

Daily Tech News Show / April 27th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy do game companies like Blizzard have such a rabid following and what does it mean for the future of video game trade shows like E3? Jenn Cutter and Scott Johnson discuss.

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Today in Tech History – April 27, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 27th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1981 – The first mouse integrated with a personal computer made its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation.

1995 – The Justice Department sued to block Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, claiming the acquisition would raise prices and squash innovation. Intuit still exists but Microsoft Money is long gone.

1998 – Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the first known live interspecies chat with Koko the gorilla. Koko signed her answers; Penny Patterson interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator entered them in the computer.

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#253 – A Tale Of Two Styles

Shows/ Sword and Laser / April 26th, 2016

The Hugos are out! We leave the drama to the side for this one and celebrate the novel nominees. But we didn’t waste the drama… we just saved it for our evaluations of TV show and movie-based SFF books! We even brought a little to season our conversation about The Fifth Season and A Darker Shade of Magic. It’s OK to like different styles of writing, folks!

DTNS 2745 – Disclaimer: Beyonce’s Hubby works at Tidal

Daily Tech News Show / April 26th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comListening to music is a mess. Streaming systems no longer all have all the music you might want. Did they ever? CNET’s Iyaz Akhtar and Tom Merritt discuss what artist exclusivity does to the music fan.

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Today in Tech History – April 26, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 26th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!

1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.

1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.

1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.

2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.

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