1930 – The first roll of waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape was sold. Its brand name “Scotch” has become synonymous with cellophane tape.
1966 – The TV show Star Trek made its network television debut with the episode “The Man Trap”. Star Trek would have a profound influence on future technology thought and design.
2004 – NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-landed when its parachute failed to open.
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Apple pulls the wraps off the much anticipated iPhone 7 and Apple Watch series 2. Plus Super Mario is making way the Apple Store! Scott Johnson is joined by Peter Wells and Loyd Case to discuss the highs and lows of the event.
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1927 – The first fully electronic television system was demonstrated by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Francisco.
1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, ESPN, made its debut. It would become one of the main drivers of cable TV adoption and one of the main factors in the switch to Internet television.
1981 – The first large parallel processing computer, ILLIAC IV, ended its nearly decade-long life at the University of Illinois.
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ITT Tech shuts down, Microsoft gets a little Slack, and Volvo and Autoliv team up.
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Is the push for digital transformation causing some companies to develop solutions that are needlessly complicated? Scott Johnson and Jonathan Strickland discuss the implications.
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1947 – The aircraft-carrier Midway became the first US vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. The rocket had a mishap though, and exploded at 5,000 feet.
1954 – US President Eisenhower waved a ceremonial “neutron wand” over a neutron counter in Denver, Colorado, to signal a bulldozer in Shippingport, Pennsylvania to begin construction on the first commercial nuclear power plant. It was part of the “Atoms for Peace” program.
1997 – The USS Grace Murray Hopper, guided missile destroyer, was commissioned by the US Navy in San Francisco, named after the computer pioneer.
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Intel buys Movidius, Flipagram needs a buyer, and the European Space Agency finds its lost lander.
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Microsoft’s lawsuit gets some help, Space Communications Ltd had a bad weekend, and the beginning of the end for OpenOffice?
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1977 – NASA launched Voyager 1 after a brief delay. Although it was launched 16 days after Voyager 2, it’s faster flight path would take it past Jupiter first.
1980 – The last IBM 7030 mainframe computer, AKA STRETCH, was decommissioned at Brigham Young University.
2007 – Apple introduced the iPod Touch, bringing multitouch functionality to its popular iPod line.
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1888 – George Eastman was issued US. patent No. 388,850 for his roll-film box camera.
1956 – IBM introduced the IBM 350 disk storage unit for the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
1998 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation of Google, allowing them to cash a $100,000 check Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun, had written to Google Inc.
2013 – Samsung announced a smartwatch called Galaxy Gear that could only be used with its own phones and tablets that ran Android 4.3.
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