Brian McClellan joins us to talk about his latest book, Wrath of Empire (second book in the Gods of Blood and Powder series). Plus we find out why he may not want to time travel, and what his writing kryptonite is!
DTNS 3284 – The Student has become the Cheater
Cheating on exams has been constant thorn in the side of schools and the halls of higher education. But with smart phones, wearables and the internet cheating has become so ubiquitous some schools are taking drastic action to limit student access to personal technology. Will this help stem the tide or does the problem call for new ideas and approaches to testing students.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
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Today in Tech History – – May 16, 2018
1888 – Emile Berliner demonstrated his flat disc audio recording and reproduction in a lecture he gave to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which was printed in the institute’s Journal (vol. 125, no. 60).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlgramo.html
1946 – At the meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, now IEEE) in San Francisco, Jack Mullin demonstrated the world’s first professional-quality tape recorded in the US.
http://www.pavekmuseum.org/jmullin.html
1960 – While working at the Hughes Research Laboratories of the Hughes Aircraft company in Malibu, California, physicist Theodore Maiman used an artificial ruby to create the first laser.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201005/physicshistory.cfm
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 16, 2018
Microsoft to debut lower-cost Surface tablets, Instagram will launch a time spent feature, Whole Foods now offering discounts to Amazon Prime customers.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 220 – Cobra Kai (101-104), Legion (202-203), Westworld (204)
Complicated feels about Daniel-san on Cobra Kai, Two Grown Men Try To Interpret Or Even Remember Two Episode Of Legion, and we’re warming up to a trippy new Westworld.
01:10 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:57 – Triage (Avengers: Infinity War)
07:57 – Cobra Kai (101-102)
16:14 – Cobra Kai (101-104)
23:09 – Legion (202-203)
33:27 – Westworld (204)
Fish Flyer
DTNS 3283 – The UK Unfriends Zuck
Twitter is implementing a new system based on thousands of behavioral signals to filter our tweet replies, searches, and recommendations. Will this help curb abusive and bullying behavior on the platform or will other more invasive measures be needed?
Starring Sara Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang.
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Today in Tech History – – May 15, 2018
1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada were auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more.
1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 in Kazakhstan. It failed to reach orbit. Polyus was designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1241842
1997 – Amazon stock went public on NASDAQ.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon
2004 – Using a computer with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, Josh Findley discovered the 41st Mersenne prime, 224,036,583 – 1. Mersenne primes have a close connection to perfect numbers, which are equal to the sum of their proper divisors.
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Daily Tech Headlines – May 15, 2018
Microsoft teases upcoming Surface Hub 2, Twitter will bury tweets by users for bad behavior, Google announces new storage plans under the new name Google One.
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Cordkillers 220 – SyFy Is All About The Expense (w/ Chris Cox)
The Expanse is looking for a new home, more info on the coming live-action Star Wars show, and Rick and Morty a hundred years dot com, Morty. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Chris Cox.