The playoffs are upon us. This year Shecky has decided to offer some additional propositional bets to make the games even more interesting this week. Without any delay here are your Playoff Lines.
As always, Bet Early and Bet Often!
East Meets West 337 – Violence
Perceptions of ages, the pace of change, violence across time, treating the systems, making a system where good emerges.
DTNS 2568 – The Force Touch Is Strong(ly Rumored)
So we have a fact about the next Apple announcement which will happen September 9th. Allison Sheridan, Jeff Cannata and Tom Merritt take their best guesses at what will be announced. Also, robots that make pizza.
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Today in Tech History – August 27, 2015
In 1962 – NASA launched the Mariner 2 unmanned space mission to Venus.
In 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.
In 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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S&L Podcast – #226 – Embrace The Manic Pixie Dream Witch
We’re happy for the Hugos, sad for the last Terry Pratchett novel, and J.R.R. Tolkien has a new book. Plus, we wrap up Uprooted by Naomi Novik and make our peace with a trope.
DTNS 2567 – YouTube Can Play At This Game
YouTube takes on Twitch in game streaming. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt gauge their chances of success.
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Today in Tech History – August 26, 2015
In 1938 – A New York radio station first used the Philips-Miller system of tape recording on a radio broadcast.
In 1984 – Miss Manners confronted her first computer issue. The columnist responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer.
In 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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DTNS 2566 – You’re S-Penning It Wrong!
Microsoft is just the latest company to show off 3D scanning software for a consumer phone. With MIT’s new 10-material printer, Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss far we are from being able to replicate things with our phone.
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Cordkillers 85 – Let’s! Do! The Time-Shift Again!
The children are our time shifters, NBC wants to change Web video, Apple TV needs a comeback.
Today in Tech History – August 25, 2015
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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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