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DTNS 2715 – Asimov’s First Rule of Robot Club

Daily Tech News Show / March 18th, 2016

Don’t fear the robots, teach your children to command them! FIRST Robotics coach Shane Rosenkrantz talks with Tom Merritt and Tech Stuff’s Jonathan Strickland about team competitive robotics.

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Today in Tech History – March 18, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 18th, 2016

In 1931 – Jacob Schick began marketing his second electric razor. His first hadn’t caught on because of the bulky motor. This time the more practical design became a hit.

In 1965 – The Voskhod 2 launched and on the second orbit Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left the capsule (on purpose) for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.

In 1987 – Thousands of physicists crowded a ballroom at the New York Hilton at the meeting of the American Physical Society to hear speakers talk on high-temperature superconductivity. The session started in the evening and ran until 3:15 AM earning the nickname “Woodstock of Physics.”

In 2015 – Sony launched its Internet TV service called PlayStation Vue in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. For $50 a month subscribers got around 50 channels plus the ability to record shows in the cloud for up to 28 days.

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DTNS 2714 – The Next Bot Thing

Daily Tech News Show / March 17th, 2016

Messaging is the hot new platform and payments are the hot new thing on the hot new platform as witnessed by WeChatPay’s big numbers. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss whether this trend is more light or heat.

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Today in Tech History – March 17, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 17th, 2016

In 1948 – William Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina. His stories are credited with launching cyberpunk literature, named after the phrase he used in the story “Burning Chrome”.

In 1953 – Australian researcher David Warren came up with the idea for a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. His ARL Flight Memory Unit would eventually be known as the Black Box.

In 1958 – The United States launched the Vanguard 1 satellite, achieving the highest altitude of any man-made vehicle to that time.

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DTNS 2713 – Middle-Class VR

Daily Tech News Show / March 16th, 2016

Sony’s PlayStation VR is officially in the race now. Tech Republic’s. Erin Carson was at the announcement and talks with Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson about the state of VR.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 112

Cordkillers / March 16th, 2016

10 Cloverfield Lane, 11.22.63 (105), Justified (109)

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Today in Tech History – March 16, 2016

Uncategorized / March 16th, 2016

In 1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.

In 1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online and would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.

In 1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.

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#247 – Parents Just Weren’t Understood

Shows/ Sword and Laser / March 15th, 2016

We’re checking in on All The Birds in The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders and why some people were put off by Patrica and Laurence’s parents. Trust us, so were Patricia and Laurence. Also it’s March Madness and we have the hot inside track on the April fantasy winner and how YOU can pick it.

DTNS 2712 – Save The Puppy? [ ] Yes [ ] No

Daily Tech News Show / March 15th, 2016

People let companies track them and store gigabytes of information about them yet encryption and privacy have never been hotter topics. Do people really care about their privacy or only the appearance? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss with special guest Molly Wood.

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Today in Tech History – March 15, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / March 15th, 2016

In 1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.

In 1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first dot-com domain name, symbolics.com. The domain is now owned by an investment company who uses it as a marketing device. The remains of the original Symbolics company survived in altered form at symbolics-dks.com.

In 2004 – Nicolas Jacobsen posted to a forum that he had hacked into T-Mobile’s network and stolen information from major celebrities like Paris Hilton. Jacobsen was later charged with two counts of violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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