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Daily Tech Headlines – December 30, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 30th, 2016

The Whitehouse strikes back, Lyft makes changes to prevent discrimination, and Slack needs a new head of product.

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Today in Tech History – December 30, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 30th, 2016

1873 – A number of gentlemen in New York City founded the American Metrological Society, feeling that a change to the Metric System was needed by civilized nations. 100 years later they’re defunct and gallons, miles, and Fahrenheit rule the US.

1913 – Dr William David Coolidge received his patent for improvements in tungsten and methods for making filaments in incandescent lights. It made light bulbs last a lot longer. Too bad that in 1928, GE got a court to declare the patent was not an invention.

1924 – Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that he had found stars in the spiral nebula Andromeda, and using Leavitt’s formula measured them as 860,000 light years away proving Andromeda was a separate galaxy. He would go on to find a dozen more galaxies.

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DTNS 2935 – 2016 Predictions results show

Daily Tech News Show / December 29th, 2016

The DTNS team looks back on their predictions for 2016 to see how close they got.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 29, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 29th, 2016

Twitter streams 360-degree video, Sina Weibo is ready for some football, and Cuba is building computers.

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Today in Tech History – December 29, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 29th, 2016

1949 – TV station KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

1952 – The first hearing aid using a junction transistor went on sale, the model 1010 was manufactured by the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, New York, US.

1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a talk called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom“, in which he suggested it should be possible to make nanoscale machines that can arrange atoms the way we want.

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DTNS 2934 – Listener-Co-Host Show

Daily Tech News Show / December 28th, 2016

We talk with some of our Analyst level supporters about what they do and why they’re interested in technology.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 28, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 28th, 2016

Amazon Echo is evidence in a murder case, Facebook Safety Check is activated by mistake, and Toshiba takes a bath.

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Today in Tech History – December 28, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 28th, 2016

1886 – Josephine Garis Cochrane of Shelbyville, Illinois received the first US patent for a commercially successful dishwasher. Dishes fit in compartments in a wheel that turned inside a copper boiler. Her company eventually became KitchenAid.

1895 – The first commercial presentation of the famous Lumière Cinématographe took place at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris. Invited payees got to see ten films.

1969 – In Helsinki, Finland Nils and Anna Torvalds gave birth to their son Linus. He would start out dabbling on his grandfather’s Commodore Vic-20 and end up developing the open source Linux operating system.

2005 – The European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint launched GIOVE-A the first test-bed satellite for the Galileo geo-location system.

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DTNS 2933 – Underrated Stories of 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 27th, 2016

What are the most underrated tech stories of 2016. Nate Lanxon and Ian Morris from Tech’s Message join Tom Merritt and Roger Chang to give their perspective and listen to suggestions from the DTNS audience.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 27, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 27th, 2016

Apple publishes AI research, Bridgewater Associates automates management, and 2017 Tech IPO candidates revealed.

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