Today in Tech History – – June 27, 2018

1967 – The world’s first ATM was installed at a Barclays Bank branch in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/8328017.Cash_machine_plaque_unveiled_in_Enfield_Town/

1972 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney filed incorporation papers for Atari, Inc. and got ready to release its first product, a game called Pong.

http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/

1995 – Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it began distributing its Spyglass Mosaic Web browser. The Spyglass browser powered the first version of Internet Explorer and had code in IE all the way up to IE 7.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Spyglass(R)+announces+initial+public+offering.-a017142114

2008 – Bill Gates spent his last day as an employee of the company he founded, Microsoft, to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He remained Chairman of the Board.

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/june-27-2008-bill-gates-retires-13831280

2012 – Sergey Brin interrupted a Google announcement of the new Google + app to show off the Project Glass smart glasses by having sky divers wearing the prototypes, jump out of a zeppelin and land on the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco, while streaming video in a Google hangout.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/googlers-skydive-wearing-google-glasses-broadcast-jump-live-to-google/

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DTNS 3313 – Literally Yelling at the Cloud Service

Google rolls out public testing of Duplex. Google’s AI technology that can make human sounding phone calls on your behalf for reservations or appointments. We examine the impact, usefulness, and future of the technology.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 27, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Samsung sets announcement for August 9, Google starts testing Duplex natural voice calls, IBM and Microsoft make facial recognition work for all faces.

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Today in Tech History – – June 26, 2018

1954 – At 5:30 PM the world’s first nuclear power station was connected to the power grid in Obninsk, US.S.R., a small town 60 miles south of Moscow.

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2004/obninsk.html

1974 – At 8:01 AM, a supermarket cashier scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum across a bar-code scanner at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was the first product ever checked out by Universal Product Code.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/technology/26barcode.html

1997 – The US Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Communications Decency Act as violating the first amendment protecting free speech.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/26/cda.overturned.hfr/index.html?eref=sitesearch

2014 – Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects lab stole the show at the Google I/O developer conference, with a demonstration of Project Tango’s 3D-mapping capability and Project Ara’s modular phone.

http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/google-project-tango-ara/

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DTNS 3312 – Checking in on 5G

5G is coming with its promise of faster speeds. Will this wireless cell technology finally give mobile users the same speeds as broadband users? And will this new technology provide meaningful competition for incumbent broadband providers?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Luria Petrucci.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 26, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500WiFi Alliance starts supporting WPA3, Mozilla announces Firefox Monitor to help identify security breaches, Uber gets a provisional license reinstated in London.

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