Summer Movie Draft, Game of Thrones (609), Daredevil (to 212), Justified (209).
00:40 – Summer Movie Draft
05:39 – Daredevil (210-212)
11:21 – Game of Thrones (609)
25:31 – Justified (210)
Today in Tech History – June 22, 2016
1675 – Britain’s King Charles II established the observatory at Greenwich with the main purpose of determining precise longitudes to aid in navigation. This purpose led to Greenwich being marked as the prime meridian and later Greenwich Mean Time.
1799 – The first definitive prototype metre bars (mètre des Archives) and kilograms were constructed in platinum.
1999 – The first demonstration of live rats directly controlling a robot arm with their thoughts was published by Nature Neuroscience.
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#259 – The Adventures Of The Giant Space Hedgehog
American Gods nails the casting, John W. Campbell Award nails the nominees, and we nail the true origin of the world of Updraft as we wrap up this month’s book pick. OK, we’re probably wrong about the hedgehog (but we do wrap up Updraft).
DTNS 2791 – Better Safe Harbor Than Sorry
Do we need copyright law to be even stronger? The music industry says so as they get tough in negotiations with YouTube. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss how these two heavyweights crush the rest of our rights.
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Daily Tech Headlines, June 21, 2016
Twitter dives into video, Drones get new rules int he US, and intrigue in the leadership of SoftBank and its mostly Sprint’s fault.
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Today in Tech History – June 21, 2016
1948 – The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM took 52 minutes to run its first program, written by Professor Tom Kilburn. SSEM was the first computer to store programs electronically. The SSEM was nicknamed the “Manchester Baby”.
1981 – IBM retired the last of its “STRETCH” mainframes. These mainframes were part of the 7000 series that made up the company’s first transistorized computers.
2004 – SpaceShipOne became the first privately developed piloted vehicle to leave Earth’s atmosphere and reach the edge of space.
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Cordkillers 125 – Gimme an F!!
Cable industry wants apps to be the law, Netflix’s future in doubt, and Westworld looks amazing.
DTNS 2790 – Internet Of Too Many Things
What the heck is Apple’s HomeKit and how could it make your house better? Richard Gunther breaks it down for Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 20, 2016
Twitter purchases a Magic Pony, Algeria’s students ruin it for everyone, and Apple gets to open stores in India.
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Today in Tech History – June 20, 2016
1840 – Samuel F.B. Morse received a US patent for “Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electro-magnetism.” We call it Morse code.
1963 – A hotline was established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. While later it would become the famous “red telephone” it started as a teletype.
2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation was founded in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales to oversee the various Wiki projects like Wikipedia.
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