1897 – 23-year-old Guglielmo Marconi received a patent in England for his wireless telegraphy which we now call radio. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. Ltd. was formed a few weeks later.
1928 – W3XK, owned by the Jenkins Television Corporation, went on the air becoming the first television broadcasting station in the US.
2001 – Bram Cohen first revealed BitTorrent on a Yahoo group called decentralization.
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A Tesla Model S using autopilot crashed and killed the driver. What this does and doesn’t mean for the safety of self-driving cars with Justin Young and Tom Merritt. Len Peralta illustrates a different more lighthearted story.
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Fatality while using Tesla autopilot, Chrome for VR, and WhatsApp funds froze.
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1979 – Sony introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. It weighed 14 ounces, was blue and silver, and had a second earphone jack. It was originally marketed in the US as the Sound-About and in the UK as the Stowaway.
1991 – Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri made the world’s first GSM call over a privately operated network to Vice Mayor Kaarina Suonio in Tampere. The Prime Minister used Nokia gear on GSM’s original 900MHz band.
1984 – The book Neuromancer by William Gibson was published. The cyberpunk novel would go on to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. The book is credited with popularizing the term cyberspace and laying out a blueprint for what the World Wide Web would become.
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Old mics and Radio Shack tech, the Jane Elliott exercise, the Brexit.
Do tech-savvy folks need Uber and Lyft? Austin’s carrying out that experiment right now. Justin Young and Tom Merritt talk with Austinites Brian Brushwood and Bryce Castillo about how their dealing with it.
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Android gets a name, Spotify threatens Apple and a new cable connects the Pacific.
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1945 – The first draft of a Report on the EDVAC was published. It discussed the advantages of using just one large internal memory, in which instructions as well as data could be held.
1948 – Bell Labs introduced the point-contact transistor demonstrated by its inventors, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at a press conference in Murray Hill, NJ.
1948 – The FCC authorization of recording devices in connection with interstate or foreign telephone service went into effect. Users of the service had to be given adequate notice including a tone warning signal at regular intervals.
2015 – Apple launched Apple Music, a streaming service for $10 a month along with radio station Beats One.
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How transistor radios paved the way for smartphones. Tech historian Tamar Sandel talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about what we owe the cheap radios of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Summer Movie Draft, Game of Thrones (610), Justified (211), Preacher (104), Daredevil (213), .
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05:19 – Game of Thrones (610)
31:14 – Justified (211)
35:39 – Preacher (104)
38:06 – Daredevil (213)