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DTNS 3127 – Apple Wants Its Own Chips. Salsa Coming Soon
Apple may try to design more of its own parts, Japan and Korea take very different approaches to cryptocurrency and a wrap-up of Microsoft’s Ignite announcements.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 188
Rick and Morty (309), Firefly (Ariel) With special guest Mike TV.
01:15 – Winter Movie Draft 2017
03:11 – Triage (Star Wars movies)
08:25 – Rick and Morty (309)
10:40 – Firefly (Ariel)
Daily Tech Headlines – September 29, 2017
Google working on Echo Show competitor, Go Pro’s new camera, and Mr. Uber goes to London.
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Today in Tech History – September 29, 2017
1920 – The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh ran an advertisement in the Pittsburgh Sun, describing wireless Victrola music being picked up by radio. Amateur Wireless Sets were on sale for $10.
1954 – CERN officially came into being. In addition to countless advancements in science, it would go on to foster the invention of the World Wide Web.
http://international-relations.web.cern.ch/International-Relations/ms/
1994 – Programmers first demonstrated the HotJava prototype browser to executives at Sun Microsystems Inc. It was an attempt to port the Java language to the Web. It worked.
http://papa.det.uvigo.es/~theiere/cursos/Curso_Java/history.html
1995 – The Sony PlayStation went on sale in Europe.
1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in North America spreading its 3D world controlled by an analog stick to a new continent.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/09/24/nintendo-64-launching-a-legacy
2015 – Google announced the Nexus 5X and 6P phones, new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, and an Android tablet called the Pixel C.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/09/29/everything-google-announced-today-at-its-nexus-2015-event/
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Cordkillers 188 – The First Trek is Free (w/ Mike TV)
Why everyone loves Star Trek and hates CBS, Plex gets news-y, and Amazon gets a new 4K dongle. With special guest MikeTV.
DTNS 3126 – Facebook’s Out For Blood
Facebook’s out for blood in India– in a good way, Why Ikea bought TaskRabbit, and what’s really going on with the US DHS collecting immigrants’ social media info.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, and Justin Robert Young.
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#307 – Annihilation is the new Arrival
Good Omens looks good, Annihilation looks great, our last thoughts on Helliconia Spring, and why we’re reading about monsters in October.
Daily Tech Headlines – September 28, 2017
Amazon announces new Echos, Facebook out to help blood donors in India, and Anthony Levandowsky, formerly of Uber, has started an AI religion.
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Today in Tech History – September 28, 2017
1998 – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer passed Netscape Navigator as the Web browser with the greatest market share, according to a report from the International Data Corporation.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/09/0928ie-beats-netscape/
2008 – SpaceX launched the Falcon 1, the first ever private spacecraft to enter orbit.
http://www.spacex.com/press/2012/12/19/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-orbit
2011 – Amazon shook up the tablet market, announcing the the Amazon Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet for $199.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/28/technology/amazon_tablet/index.htm
2015 – NASA announced definitive signs of liquid water on Mars had been found near the equator. Dr. Alfred S. McEwen and other scientists published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, describing the direct identification of water in the the form of hydration salts.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars
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