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Today in Tech History – October 8, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 8th, 2016

1860 – Telegraph lines opened between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This allowed gold miners to tell backers farther south that they still hadn’t found any gold.

1921 – KDKA radio in Pittsburgh conducted the first live broadcast of a football game from Forbes Field. The University of Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University.

2003 – To allow IT departments to prepare for critical updates, Microsoft conducted the first regularly scheduled Windows patch release. It became lovingly known as “Patch Tuesday”.

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DTNS 2874 – NSA Say – Yahoo Do

Daily Tech News Show / October 7th, 2016

Should the government step in on Internet of Things security? And Shanon Morse and Tom Merritt make sense of what do and don’t know about Yahoo’s government surveillance program.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 7, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 7th, 2016

New Oculus products, Comcast ads caps, Verizon may want a new Yahoo deal.

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Today in Tech History – October 7, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 7th, 2016

1806 – Englishman Ralph Wedgwood received the first patent on carbon paper, which led to the initials cc to indicate a carbon copy which led to the email option to “cc” somebody.

1954 – IBM sounded the death knell of vacuum tubes, building the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors. It was an experimental version of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch, that was desktop-sized and slow just like it’s vacuum-tube powered brother, but it used 5% of the power!

1959 – The Soviet Space Probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the dark side of the moon. You’re welcome Pink Floyd.

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DTNS 2873 – Zipping down the freeways of your arteries

Daily Tech News Show / October 6th, 2016

Moore’s law may get a reprieve! Dr. Kiki tells Tom Merritt how researchers have figured out how to make 1-nanometer transistors.

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 6, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 6th, 2016

Nobody wants to buy Twitter, Samsung buys Viv from Siri inventors, a new Note burns up on an airplane.

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Today in Tech History – October 6, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 6th, 2016

1893 – A US. copyright was issued to William K. L. Dickson for a “publication” consisting of “Edison Kinetoscopic Records.” It was the first motion picture copyright in North America. No torrents were uploaded until much later.

1914 – Edwin H. Armstrong received a US patent for a “Wireless Receiving System” which described his famous regenerative, or feedback, circuit. Armstrong would go on to pioneer FM radio.

1927 – Al Jolson appeared on a movie screen in New York City and said for all to hear “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” It was the first talkie.

2014 – HP announced it planned to split into two companies. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise would become an IT company with all of HP’s enterprise level offerings. HP Inc. would take the existing logo and the personal systems and printing divisions.

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DTNS 2872 – Donald Bell explains Arduino

Daily Tech News Show / October 5th, 2016

What is Arduino? Is it real? Is it just Arduino? Donald Bell explains that and more to Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt. Plus a standalone Wacom tablet and a supposedly safe Note 7 burns up on an airplane.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 139 w/Fraser Cain

Cordkillers / October 5th, 2016

Luke Cage (101-102), Westworld (101 and original movie), Justified (312). With special guest Fraser Cain.

01:19 – Luke Cage (101-102)

16:07 – Westworld (101 and movie)

39:17 – Justified (312)

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Daily Tech Headlines – October 5, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 5th, 2016

Yahoo accused of scanning for the NSA, A Nobel prize for nano machines, and hacks on insulin pumps.

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