1962 – NASA launched the Mariner 2 unmanned space mission to Venus.
1989 – The first direct-to-home TV satellite launched from Cape Canaveral. Marco Polo I delivered the British Satellite Broadcasting service to homes in the UK.
2003 – Fairbanks, Alaska got the world’s biggest UPS backup. The city hooked up the world’s largest storage battery, built to provide an uninterrupted power supply of 40 megawatts.
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Jenn Cutter joins Tom to discuss the impact of eSports on the adoption of VR technology in video gaming.
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Three zero-day iPhone flaws found and fixed, Uber losing a lot of money, Alphabet cuts its fiber staff down.
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1938 – A New York radio station first used the Philips-Miller system of tape recording on a radio broadcast.
1984 – Miss Manners confronted her first computer issue. The columnist responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer.
1996 – Netscape Communications Corp. announced it had partnered with several other big companies to create a software company called Navio Corp. Navio was meant to create an operating system to compete with Windows.
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Apple and WhatsApp have different messaging strategies. Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss whether either cares about its users.
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Self-driving cars come to the public in Singapore, WhatsApp starts sharing data with Facebook, Apple may be developing a Snapchat competitor
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1609 – Galileo Galilei craftily beat a Dutch telescope maker to an appointment with the Doge of Venice. Galileo impressed the Doge and received a lifetime appointment and a doubled salary. Later that autumn, Galileo pointed his telescope to the Moon, and trouble began.
1981 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn. Eight years later on the same day in 1989, Voyager 2 would make its closest approach to Neptune.
1991 – 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds wrote a newsgroup post about a free operating system he was working on. He said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu.” His OS would eventually be called Linux.
2014 – Amazon announced it had acquired Twitch.TV the popular video game streaming site. Rumors had indicated Google was going to buy the company, but the deal fell through.
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Chat interfaces are being used in news and fiction apps, but they’e not bots. Is it a fad, or is your text message screen the format of the future? Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Summer Movie Draft, Mr. Robot (207), The Get Down (102), Justified (306). With special guest Mulango Akpo-Esambe.
01:09 – Summer Movie Draft
04:00 – Mr. Robot (207)
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Google demotes full screen ads, PlayStation Now comes to Windows, Tesla juices its battery.
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