Hot New Products from IFA – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Dell has a high-quality Chromebook, Acer claims the world’s thinnest laptop and Skagen has a gorgeous new smartwatch.

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Current Geek 183: Mars Dictator School

NASA wants you to watch your mouth. GRRM says some die in the show that live on in the book. We all want Elephant genes. Lego goes plant based bricks. MIT predicted our demise by 2040. And so much more!

Today in Tech History – – August 28, 2018

1845 – Scientific American began publication with the issue for this day. It would become the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=sciam

1991 – The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis sent an electronic mail message using AppleLink. The message read: “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first Applelink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here!”

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6115/First%20E-mail%20From%20Space%20Is%20Sent%20from%20a%20Mac%20Portable

2009 – Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard featuring many minor improvements and integration with Microsoft Exchange.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/08/24Apple-to-Ship-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-on-August-28.html

2017 – Amazon acquired the Whole Foods grocery store chain and immediately set about cutting prices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/amazon-cuts-prices-at-whole-foods-as-much-as-50-on-first-day

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DTNS 3356 – Verify Everyone!

Intel announces new chips, Bose enters the smart speaker market, and Google helps US Veterans transition to civilian life.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Anthony Lemos, and Justin Robert Young.

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Toyota Invests $500M In Uber – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Trump accuses Google of rigging search results against him, Vespa’s e-scooter gets European release date, Google Go app now reads out loud in 28 languages.

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Cordkillers 234 – It’s Garry Shandling’s List

Netflix imitators, True Detective coming back, and Hulu revives Veronica Mars. All this and more on Cordkillers!

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Today in Tech History – – August 27, 2018

1962 – NASA launched the Mariner 2 unmanned space mission to Venus.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-041A

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.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1989-067A

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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3312118/Worlds-biggest-battery-switched-on-in-Alaska.html

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DTNS 3355 – The Great Gig in the Cloud

On our August end-of-month roundtable we discuss the challenges and rewards independent musicians face in an online world.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jason Howell and Dale Chase.

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Xbox Launches Subscription Console Offer – DTH

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft now sells the Xbox by the month, new iPhone rumors from Bloomberg and Uber to focus on bicycles and scooters.

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Today in Tech History – – August 26, 2018

1938 – A New York radio station first used the Philips-Miller system of tape recording on a radio broadcast.

http://books.google.com/books?id=G2wGxDT0f2MC&pg=PT526&lpg=PT526&dq=tape+1938+august+26+WQXR&source=bl&ots=Kkuw9uJ6U7&sig=74PYEzrL1Xph_B5PL7ffmuyXcp0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Tr8JUNXJNO3k2wWkmsDABw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=tape%201938%20august%2026%20WQXR&f=false

1984 – Miss Manners confronted her first computer issue. The columnist responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/August/26/

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.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Netscape-Startup-Navio-Focuses-on-Non-PC-Users-2969143.php

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