Today in Tech History – June 22, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 22nd, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1675 – 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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DTNS 2791 – Better Safe Harbor Than Sorry

Daily Tech News Show / June 21st, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comDo 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

Daily Tech News Show / June 21st, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Twitter 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

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 21st, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1948 – 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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DTNS 2790 – Internet Of Too Many Things

Daily Tech News Show / June 20th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhat 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

Daily Tech News Show / June 20th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Twitter 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

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 20th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1840 – 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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Today in Tech History – June 19, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 19th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo240 B.C. – Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian in Alexandria, Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s circumference. His data was based on the length of shadows in different locations and simple geometry, but his calculations were not far wrong.

1623 – Mathematician Blaise Pascal was born in France. He invented a digital calculator, the Pascaline, to help his father in his tax-collecting work.

2003 – Apple released dock connector-to-USB 2.0 cables and drivers for third-generation iPods. Previous iPods had been FireWire only.

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