We team up with Mallory and Brea from Reading Glasses for a supercollaboration with reading advice, emails, and discussion of Mortal Engines.
European Parliament votes against copyright reform – DTH
Volkswagen launches electric car-sharing service, Uganda social media tax is supposed to combat lying, ZTE names XU Ziyang its new CEO.
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Today in Tech History – – July 4, 2018
1951 – Bell Labs held a press conference announcing the invention of the junction transistor. Dr. William Shockley was featured at the conference.
http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1951-First.html
1956 – The five-year-old MIT computer Whirlwind added the ability to input data directly with a keyboard. Programmers began to enjoy independence from punch cards.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/4/
1996 – Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched a free web email service called HoTMaiL, a play on HTML. Microsoft bought it a year later, and called it Hotmail for years, but it’s now Outlook.com.
http://news.microsoft.com/1999/02/08/msn-hotmail-from-zero-to-30-million-members-in-30-months/
2016 – The Juno space probe survived the high radiation of Jupiter to make a successful orbital insertion and begin a 20-month mission to examine the interior of Jupiter.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-juno-spacecraft-in-orbit-around-mighty-jupiter
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 226 – Incredibles 2, What We Do in the Shadows, Deadwood, Preacher
It’s a packed Spoilerin’ Time with Incredibles 2, a quick check on What We Do in the Shadows, plus Deadwood and Preacher! With special guest Brian Ibbott ( http://twitter.com/coverville/ ).
00:53 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:49 – Incredibles 2
17:50 – What We Do in the Shadows
20:31 – Deadwood (302)
29:01 – Preacher (301-302)
DTNS LABS – GAMES – Everything is About Fortnite
In this episode, we discuss:
Our takeaways from E3
Sony’s cross play PR issues
Battle passes are the new standard
Steam sales recommendations (Scott: Celeste, Endless Space 2 / Patrick: Opus Magnum, Dead Cells)
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.
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Daily Tech Headlines – July 4, 2018
ZTE resumes US Business, Uber is in talks to merge with Uber and Careem Networks, and Micron faces Chinese injunction
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CurrentGeek 176: Detachable Pinkie
More star-trek? Sounds good! Lucasfilm is putting stuff on hold. Netflix shows a peak at Matt Groening’s new show! That guy did not lose his head as we thought! Russian billionaire wants to take you to space. FOURCAST: No hair in the future. BEST THING OF ALL TIME THIS WEEK: 1password 7 and Broadchurch. Your emails and more!
Today in Tech History – – July 3, 2018
1886 – Karl Benz drove his Patent Motor Wagen on Mannheim’s Ringstraße, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph) powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. It was the first public drive of what is considered the first purpose-built automobile.
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/classic/history/benz-patent-motor-car/
1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry died of lung cancer. She was a pioneering game designer most famous for creating the multiplayer game M.U.L.E. in 1983.
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4524
1999 – At the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, Billy Mitchell became the first ever to achieve a perfect score on Pac-Man.
http://funspotnh.com/-Articles/pc-billymitchell.htm
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DTNS 3317 – Fallout from Sony’s Lockout
As Sony stands firm on not allowing cross platform play on Fortnite for the PS4 we discuss the implications of Sony’s policy and whether or not change course any time soon.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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- Quick Hits
- More Top Stories
- (03:00) A Bug in Samsung’s Default Texting App Is Sending Random Pics to Other People | gizmodo
- (05:35) Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at EU copyright law | bbc news
- Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on copyright in the Digital Single Market | European Commission
- DIRECTIVE 2001/29/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT… | Official Journal of the European Communities
- (07:55) Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists | the verge
- (09:55) California Supreme Court rules Yelp can’t be ordered to remove bad reviews | cnet
- (12:20) Scientists can now use sound waves to detect cancer | thenextweb
- Discussion Story (15:55)
- Sony Not Allowing Cross-Platform Play
- SONY’S STUBBORN STANCE ON CROSS-PLAY IS EMBARRASSING | ign
- Sony’s response to Fortnite controversy is embarrassing | polygon
- How much is Sony willing to get hurt to keep people apart? | polygon
- Sony faces growing Fortnite backlash at E3 | bbc news
- Sony is “looking at possibilities” for total cross-platform play | pcgamer
- Sony tries to buy more time for PlayStation 4’s Fortnite account debacle | polygon
- Fallout 76’s Todd Howard: No cross-console play because ‘Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like’ | polygon
- Sony Not Allowing Cross-Platform Play
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- Messages of the Day
- (26:55) Bill – Automation conversation response
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Daily Tech Headlines – July 3, 2018
Samsung Messages app sends photos to random contacts, Yelp wins case that it can’t be held liable for defamatory posts, Sony raises Vue prices by $5/month.
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