It’s Spoilerin’ Time 232 – Better Call Saul (401), Preacher (308), Deadwood (308)

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 15th, 2018

Better Call Saul is back! Vampires and trickery in a new Preacher. Plus, Deadwood and a Summer Movie Draft update. With special guest Shawn DePasquale.

00:56 – Summer Movie Draft update

04:37 – Preacher (308)

20:44 – Better Call Saul (401)

41:12 – Deadwood (308)

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Alexa and Cortana Team Up – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 15th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft launches integration with Amazon for voice services, new chip security flaw Foreshadow found and patched, and 5G starts to get rolling.

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CurrentGeek 181: The Larry Sanders Show

Current Geek/ Shows / August 15th, 2018
Welcome to Current Geek: Autopilot Edition. A chance for us to go back and watch the pilot episode of an old classic/geeky TV show and talk about how it differed from the series it became and what we remember about that series in general! I’m Scott Johnson, he’s Tom Merritt, and this week, we’re talking about The Larry Sanders Show!

Today in Tech History – – August 14, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 14th, 2018

1888 – Mr. George Gouraud introduced the Edison phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord,” one of the first recordings of music ever made.

https://www.gsarchive.net/sullivan/html/historic.html

1894 – The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code was demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford. A message was transmitted about 50 meters from the old Clarendon Laboratory to the lecture theater of the University Museum.

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0262313421

1940 – John Atanasoff finished a paper describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer, or ABC, the computer he designed with Clifford Berry to solve simultaneous linear equations.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/14/

1989 – Sega launched the Genesis console in the US. It had been released in Japan the previous October as the ‘Mega Drive.’

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-true-16-bit-experience-segas-genesis-turns-25

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DTNS 3346 – SaaSy Apple Apps

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 14th, 2018

The Insider reports Apple is encouraging developers to move to software as a subscription model vs one time fee payment. Nvidia takes the wraps off its new Turing GPU architecture. NASA and freelancer.com have picked a winner for Astrobee Challenge.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Facebook Acqui-Hires Vidpresso Team – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 14th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple encouraged app developers to adopt subscription models, Tinder founders sue over alleged valuation manipulation, NVIDIA details new Turing GPU.

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Cordkillers 232 – Hollywood Gerrymandering (w/ Shawn DePasquale)

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 14th, 2018

The new Oscars award, Disney exec taking on YouTube, and Roku’s free streaming service. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Shawn DePasquale.

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Today in Tech History – – August 13, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 13th, 2018

1888 – John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. He would grow up to invent the first working television system in the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml

1912 – The US Department of Commerce issued its first experimental radio license in compliance with the International Radio Convention and Radio Act of 1912. St. Joseph’s College received a license with serial number 1 to operate 2 kilowatts station 3XJ.

http://nationalradioclub.org/articles/1stfacts.txt

2004 – Adam Curry launched an RSS feed of audio recordings called “Daily Source Code” and podcasting became a thing.

http://radio-weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/2004/08/13.html

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DTNS 3345 – Vote Hacking is Child’s Play

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 13th, 2018

An 11 year-old at DEFCON successfully hacks the vote totals on a replica of Florida’s Secretary of State webpage. Lenovo comes out with a thin and light desktop replacement notebook. Samsung updates its SmartThings wireless hub.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.

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DEFCON Researchers hack all the things – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 13th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Complex hack of Amazon Echos, a way into a network through FAX capability and a kids hack of the Florida election site.

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