DTNS 2874 – NSA Say – Yahoo Do

Daily Tech News Show / October 7th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comShould 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

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500New 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

Today in Tech History logo1806 – 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

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comMoore’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

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Nobody 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

Today in Tech History logo1893 – 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

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhat 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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Daily Tech Headlines – October 5, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / October 5th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Yahoo accused of scanning for the NSA, A Nobel prize for nano machines, and hacks on insulin pumps.

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Today in Tech History – October 5, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / October 5th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on the BBC. The show created the Spam sketch that would eventually inspire the slang term for unsolicited email.

1991 – Linux Kernel version 0.02 was released, attracting a lot of attention. Author Linus Torvalds felt this version was at least usable and worth a wider release.

1992 – IBM announced the ThinkPad line of Notebook computers at offices in New York City.

2002 – “Xbox Media Player” and its first beta source code was released. The code was a result of Frodo, the founder of “YAMP” (Yet Another Media Player), joining the Xbox Media Player team. The project was later changed to Xbox Media Center and then just XBMC.

2011 – Steve Jobs died at his home surrounded by family. The co-founder and CEO of Apple had fought pancreatic cancer for years.

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