Car guys, status symbols, fashion, men vs. dudes, unfortunate last names, Star Trek Discovery, our hopes and fears.
DTNS 2868 – May I Please Text Your Order?
Resy wanst to make an OS for fine dining where your sommelier wears an Apple Watch. Plus Spotify might buy Soundcloud and YouTube hires a DefJam alum.
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 29, 2016
Spotify might buy Soundcloud, Big tech teams up on AI, Facebook comes to work October 10th.
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Today in Tech History – September 29, 2016
1954 – CERN officially came into being. In addition to countless advancements in science, it would go on to foster the invention of the World Wide Web.
1994 – Programmers first demonstrated the HotJava prototype browser to executives at Sun Microsystems Inc. It was an attempt to port the Java language to the Web. It worked.
1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in Europe.
1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in North America spreading its 3D world controlled by an analog stick to a new continent.
2015 – Google announced the Nexus 5X and 6P phones, new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, and an Android tablet called the Pixel C.
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#269 – Artisinal Analog Tree-Sourced Reading Material
We look for authors who satisfy like Scalzi, find out how dirty the new dirty editions of The Magicians are and discuss an ethical question regarding library books.
#269 – Artisanal Analog Tree-Sourced Reading Material
We look for authors who satisfy like Scalzi, find out how dirty the new dirty editions of The Magicians are and discuss an ethical question regarding library books.
DTNS 2867 – Remotely Explode Your Document
Microsoft’s AI emphasis from Ignite with Paul Spain and Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt say goodbye to BlackBerry-made phones.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 138
Mr. Robot (212), Justified (311).
01:12 – Winter Movie Draft and fall TV series discussion
06:42 – Mr. Robot (212)
23:51 – Justified (311)
Daily Tech Headlines – September 28, 2016
Uber gets into trucking, BlackBerry stops making handsets, AI comes to Google Translate.
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Today in Tech History – September 28, 2016
1998 – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer passed Netscape Navigator as the Web browser with the greatest market share, according to a report from the International Data Corporation.
2008 – SpaceX launched the Falcon 1, the first ever private spacecraft to enter orbit.
2011 – Amazon shook up the tablet market, announcing the the Amazon Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet for $199.
2015 – NASA announced definitive signs of liquid water on Mars had been found near the equator. Dr. Alfred S. McEwen and other scientists published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, describing the direct identification of water in the the form of hydration salts.
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