We talk with Russ Pitts from he Escapist about why he returned to revive the publication and how he thinks the internet is doing these days.
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Qualcomm ups the Bluetooth audio qualty game, Apple dictates developers must have a privacy policy, and LG launches an 8K OLED TV.
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1885 – Gottlieb Daimler received a patent for adding an internal combustion engine to a bicycle to make the first gasoline-driven motorcycle.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/08/0830daimler-first-true-motorcycle/
1907 – John Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He would grow up to pioneer the design and construction of ENIAC along with Presper Eckert as well as contribute to the creation of BINAC and UNIVAC.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mauchly.html
1963 – A direct line of communication between the leaders of the USA and USSR, dubbed “The Hotline” began operation.
1969 – BBN delivered the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) to the Network Measurements Center at UCLA. It was built from a Honeywell DDP 516 computer with 12K of memory, and would be used in October to make the first Internet connection with Stanford. Graduate students Vinton Cerf, Steve Crocker, Bill Naylor, Jon Postel, and Mike Wingfield were charged with installation.
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm
1982 – A copyright was issued to 16-year-old V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai for a computer program he called “EMAIL,” short for “electronic mail.” While Ayyadurai may not be considered the inventor of email he definitely deserves credit for establishing the name.
http://allthingsd.com/20120904/email-turns-30/
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Google Assistant goes bilingual, Twitter tests “unfollow” feature, and microchipping cacti.
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Apple announces September 12 event, Google’s Titan Security Key now available to public, Uber building its own scooter?
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1831 – Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, which is used in power generation and power transmission by generators, transformers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200108/history.cfm
1965 – Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, orbiting 100 miles above the Earth in Gemini 5 talked with aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter in Sealab II, 205 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It happened to be Cooper’s wedding anniversary.
http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/cooper.htm
1990 – The British Computer Misuse Act went into effect. The Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers.
http://usir.salford.ac.uk/15815/7/MacEwan_Crim_LR.pdf
1997 – Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded Kibble Inc. The service initially let you rent individual DVDs by mail without late fees. There was no subscription service and no streaming. And the service was later renamed Netflix.
http://money.cnn.com/quote/profile/profile.html?symb=NFLX
2003 – Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis started Skype service, the Voice over Internet Provider that would go on to dominate the space.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/skypes-secrets/
2005 – Music service Pandora left preview and became open for all to use.
http://blog.pandora.com/2005/08/29/pandora_for_eve/
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Watches dominate IFA, Sonos wants to simplify your home audio, and Acer announces a Throne.
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Are we seeing a new face of Jimmy on Better Call Saul or an old one? Preacher’s season finale feels like three. Plus, Deadwood’s almost wrapped up!
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