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Daily Tech Headlines – May 28, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 28th, 2018

Vermont regulates data brokers, China set to approve Qualcomm-NXP acquisition, and iOS 12 will open up NFC.

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Today in Tech History – – May 27, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 27th, 2018

1931 – Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took the first manned trip into the stratosphere when they rode in a pressurized cabin attached to a balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rh3YOHLvUv8C&pg=PT30&lpg=PT30&dq=may+27+1931+Auguste+Piccard+and+Charles+Knipfer&source=bl&ots=xO1JisUKos&sig=kl1iga6vBsdejUaq2558cXndkjY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hr-aUda2IeGriALCloCgBw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ

1959 – After almost a decade, MIT shut down its Whirlwind computer. It ran 35 hours a week at 90 percent utility using an electrostatic tube memory.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/May/27/

1986 – Dragon Quest was released in Japan. It combined the full-screen map of Ultima with the battle and statistics-oriented screens of Wizardry and paved the way for RPG games.

http://www.giantbomb.com/dragon-warrior/3030-16305/

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DTNS LABS – GAMES – A Chat With Fifth Graders

Daily Tech News Show / May 27th, 2018

In this episode, we discuss:
What fifth graders play and how they view games.

With Patrick Beja and Mr. Darling’s class!

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Today in Tech History – – May 26, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 26th, 2018

1969 – Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the manned moon landing.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo10.html

1981 – Satya Pal Asija received the first US patent for a computer software program. It was called Swift-answer. The patent took seven years to issue, and the validity of software patents has been debated ever since.

http://patents.justia.com/1981/04270182.html

1995 – Bill Gates authored an internal memo entitled “The Internet Tidal Wave” calling the Internet the most important development since the IBM personal computer. Microsoft soon got to work on its own Web browser.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1818989,00.html

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DTNS 3291 – GDPR Consent Debris

Daily Tech News Show / May 25th, 2018

General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, the EU’s new data privacy rules start today. Already some EU users have been blocked from sites, access to social media platforms limited for others, and lawsuits against large tech firms in the process of being filed. We examine the laws impact, its affect on countries outside of the EU and how well large tech firm are complying with the new rules.

Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 25th, 2018

1945 – Arthur C. Clarke began privately circulating copies of his paper “The Space-Station: Its Radio Applications” which suggested geostationary space stations could be used for worldwide television broadcasts.

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4407/vol3/cover.pdf

1949 – Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia. He would later go by the name Joybubbles and develop a talent to whistle at 2600 Hz, allowing him to control phone switching equipment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/us/20engressia.html

1961 – US President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress declaring the United States would go to the Moon.

http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html

1989 – The first Magellan GPS NAV 1000s were shipped to retailers. They ran for a few hours on six AA batteries, and sold for $3,000.

http://mashable.com/2014/05/25/commercial-gps-25-anniversary/

1994 – CERN hosted the first international World Wide Web conference, which continued through May 27.

http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 25, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 25th, 2018

GDPR law is live! Essential may sell itself off! Google beats Amazon in smart speaker sales!

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DTNS 3290 – All Aboard the Hellscape Train

Daily Tech News Show / May 24th, 2018

Elon Musk goes on a tweet storm about the truthiness of major media outlets. Musk wants to setup a website where the public can rate the credibility of news outlets and ‘core-truth’ of news stories. We examine the issue, the problem and proposed solution.

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 24, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 24th, 2018

1844 – Samuel Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought” from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to the Mount Clair train depot in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/samuel-morse

1935 – General Electric Co. sold the first spectrophotometer. It could detect two million different shades of color and make a permanent record chart of the results.

http://www.opnmagazine-digital.com/opn/200911?pg=19#pg19

1961 – Wes Clark began working on the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC), at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. It was one of the earliest examples of a user-friendly machine that you could communicate with while it operated. It’s credited with setting the standard for personal computer design.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/May/24/

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 24, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / May 24th, 2018

US Justice Department opens criminal probe into bitcoin price manipulation, Echo speaker records woman’s conversation and sends it to a contact, Elon Musk wants to create journalist rating system.