Magic Leap is Real – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 8th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Magic Leap begins shipping to developers, Apple denies it listens to your iPhone mic, and Samsung charts a new course.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 231 – Preacher (307), Deadwood (307)

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 8th, 2018

Preacher serves up misspellings and gibberish. Plus, Deadwood and a Movie Draft update! With special guest Hammond Chamberlain.

00:56 – Summer Movie Draft update

03:45 – Preacher (307)

13:01 – Deadwood (307)

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DTNS 3341 – EPIC Maneuvers

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 7th, 2018

Epic’s Fortnite makes it way to Android but won’t be released via the Google Play Store. Is Fortnite and aberration with its ability to blow off the official or does it signal a change in the way consumers trust which platform they get content from?

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

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FCC Net Neutrality Attack Misreported – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 7th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500West Virginia plans to allow mobile voting, Alexa users rarely shop via voice, Google releases Android 9 Pie to consumers.

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Cordkillers 231 – Outlier! (w/ Hammond Chamberlain)

Cordkillers/ Shows / August 7th, 2018

Stewart returns to Star Trek, Microsoft on Movies Anywhere, and Star Wars on Disney’s streaming service? All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Hammond Chamberlain.

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Today in Tech History – – August 6, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 6th, 2018

1943 – Jon Postel was born in Altadena, California. He created the Internet’s address system, and administered it for 30 years as director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-and-awards/awards/postel-service-award/ten-year-tribute-jon-postel

1963 – Skilled hacker, future government prisoner, and eventual famous security expert Kevin Mitnick was born in Van Nuys, California.

http://www.nndb.com/people/448/000022382/

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of his WorldWideWeb Project to alt.hypertext and pointed to a simple browser and a Web page describing the project. Thus the WWW became a publicly available service on the Internet.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ

1997 – At MacWorld in Boston, Microsoft announced it would invest $150 million in Apple, and continue to make Microsoft Office for Mac for at least five years. The two companies also ended their lawsuit.

https://news.microsoft.com/1997/08/06/microsoft-and-apple-affirm-commitment-to-build-next-generation-software-for-macintosh/

2014 – The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe became the first spacecraft to maneuver alongside a speeding body as it caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28659783

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DTNS 3340 – As Android as Pie

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 6th, 2018

A virus hits chip-maker TMSC causing delays of iPhone shipments. Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple have removed episodes of Alex Jones’s InfoWars for violating rules against harassment, hate speech, and child endangerment. And Movie Pass says it won’t raise prices after all.

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

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TSMC Suffers Delays Due to Virus – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / August 6th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500iPhone part maker TSMC suffers a virus outbreak, Here maps try to woo developers away from Google Maps, Apple may open stores in India.

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Today in Tech History – – August 5, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 5th, 2018

1858 – The west end of the first transatlantic cable was completed when the ship Niagara anchored at the Newfoundland coast having laid 1,016 miles of telegraph cable.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed

1914 – The American Traffic Signal Co. installed their first electric traffic light at East 105th street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

http://allthingsclevelandohio.blogspot.com/2008/03/cleveland-birthplace-of-first-electric.html

1921 – The first radio broadcast of a baseball game happened on KDKA from Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field. Harold W. Arlin announced the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies.

http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/Recommendations/KDKAFirst1921.htm

2011 – The Juno space probe launched on a mission to explore Jupiter.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/overview/index.html

2012 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as the Curiosity Rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars in one of the most complicated automated landings ever, involving a sky crane.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mars-curiosity-rover-lands-successfully-mars/story?id=16934302#.UeHYyz54Zvg

2014 – Justin.TV announced its closure. It had started as a lifecasting channel for Justin Kan and spawned the massively successful Twitch video game streaming channel.

http://gigaom.com/2014/08/05/live-streaming-pioneer-justin-tv-shuts-down-as-company-focuses-on-twitch/

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Today in Tech History – – August 4, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 4th, 2018

1921 – The first facsimile was transmitted by radio across the Atlantic Ocean using the Belinograph invented by Edouard Belin. A message written by C. V. Van Anda, managing editor of The New York Times and addressed to the Matin in Paris, was sent in seven minutes.

http://todayinsci.com/B/Belin_Edouard/Belinogram1921-NYT.htm

1988 – A computer halted an engine test in preparation for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. The flight would be the first since the Challenger explosion in 1986.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/August/4/

2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spaceship launched on its mission to survey the Martian Arctic in search of water, geological discoveries, and evidence of conditions for biological life.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/launch/index.html

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