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Today in Tech History – June 25, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 25th, 2016

1967 – The very first Consumer Electronics Show opened in New York occupying the Americana and New York Hilton Hotels. It was devoted to home entertainment electronics and featured such advances as portable color TVs and video tape recorders.

1981 – After six years as a company, Microsoft incorporated in the state of Washington.

1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98 with less hype than Windows 95, but more consumer focus.

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DTNS 2794 – Blurgle is my Trigger

Daily Tech News Show / June 24th, 2016

The UK has voted to leave the European Union. Does it matter to the tech consumer? Darren Kitchen and Tom Merritt talk about why it doesn’t, but when it will. Plus Len Peralta illustrates!

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 24, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / June 24th, 2016

Apple stops making Thunderbolt displays, YouTube jumps into live streaming, Let’s Encrypt comes under trademark assault.

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Today in Tech History – June 24, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 24th, 2016

1963 – The first demonstration of a home video recorder was made at the BBC News Studios in London. A Telcan, short for television in a can, could record up to 20 minutes of black and white television using quarter-inch tape on a reel to reel system.

1993 – “Severe Tire Damage,” conducted the first known Internet concert. The band set their gear up on the patios of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and sent their show out on the Internet Multicast Backbone, or Mbone.

1994 – Geffen Records released the first major label song for digital download. Aerosmith’s “Head First” was available on CompuServe as a .WAV file. It took more than an hour to download.

2000 – President Clinton gave his weekly radio address live on the Internet for the first time.

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DTNS 2793 POST SHOW

Daily Tech News Show / June 24th, 2016

On the live stream we keep streaming and recording even after the show is over. You can watch this on YouTube, in the video podcast or find the full MP3 in the patreon treasure chest. Today’s conversation kicked off a full blown continuation on the debate over self-driving cars and the ethics of whether they should protect the passenger at all costs or act to save the most amount of people whether they are passengers or not. We clipped out that conversation and provide it here as a bonus track.

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DTNS 2793 – The Car-bayashi Maru

Daily Tech News Show / June 23rd, 2016

Self-driving cars have a no-win choice. And US President Barack Obama told Bloomberg he might become a silicon valley venture capitalist after his term is over. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss whether this is a horrible idea.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 23, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / June 23rd, 2016

Google fiber buys its way into apartments, Opera says it’s better on battery than Edge, and a new way to treat superbugs.

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Today in Tech History – June 23, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 23rd, 2016

1912 – Alan Turing was born in London, although his father worked for the Indian Civil Service and his parents lived in India. He helped break the code of the German enigma machine and developed the Turing test for artificial intelligence.

1943 – Vint Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up to become known as one of the fathers of the Internet, most famously for his co-creation of the protocols underlying TCP/IP.

1983 – Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel ran the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System at the University of Southern California School of Engineering’s Information Sciences.

1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in Japan becoming the first home console to rely on the analog stick as its primary control.

2005 – Reddit launched online with a submission about the Downing Street memo.

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DTNS 2792 – We the E-People

Daily Tech News Show / June 22nd, 2016

Should robots be considered people? Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss a proposed resolution in Europe to make working robots electronic persons.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 22, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / June 22nd, 2016

Elon Musk sells himself to himself, Apple opens the kimono– err Kernel on iOS 10 and why Microsoft loves the Linux.

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