Daily Tech Headlines – May 10, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 10th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The latest from the Microsoft BUILD developer conference, plus new Snapchat features and Facebook News Feed tweaks.

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Today in Tech History – May 10, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 10th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1946 – The US launched its second V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, which became the first successful launch of a large rocket on US soil. The rocket climbed straight up then pitched to the north reaching an altitude of 71 miles and impacted about 35 miles uprange.

1960 – The nuclear-powered USS Triton submarine arrived in Groton, Connecticut, after completing the first completely submerged circumnavigation of Earth.

2011 – Google announced its Open Hardware Platform and the Google Music service which would eventually become Google Play Music.

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DTNS 3026 – It Makes Complete Internet Sense

Daily Tech News Show / May 9th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy do people like smart speakers and why in heaven’s name would one need a screen? Tom tries to explain that and the Amazon Echo Show to Patrick. Plus chicken nuggets inspire the most retweets ever.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 9, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 9th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon Echo Show has a screen, Unlocked S8 up for preorder, Alipay expands in the US.

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Today in Tech History – May 9, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 9th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1893 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the Kinetoscope for the first time at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

1941 – The British Royal Naval ship HMS Bulldog captured a German U-110 submarine south of Iceland and recovered a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known as Enigma. The sub was sunk to hide its capture and the machine taken to Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and other cryptographers broke the naval code.

1989 – Apple previewed its new System 7 operating system at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. It was announced users would need at least a Mac Plus to run it as well as 2 megs of RAM.

2006 – Nintendo announced that its next game console, previously referred to as the Nintendo Revolution, would be called the Nintendo Wii.

2012 – Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel wrote the first blog post about Snapchat which had launched in the iOS app store in September 2011 after changing it’s name from Picaboo.

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DTNS 3025 – Touchy Subject

Daily Tech News Show / May 8th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTurn any object into a touchscreen including play-doh. Plus Comcast modernizes its routers and Cortana gets a smart speaker.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 8, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 8th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel chip vulnerability worse than it appeared, Harman-Kardon announces Cortana smart speaker, Handbrake issues malware warning.

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Today in Tech History – May 8, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 8th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1790 – The French National Assembly acted on a motion from Bishop Charles Maurice de Talleyrand to create a simple, stable, decimal system of measurement units. The earliest metre unit chosen was the length of a pendulum with a half-period of a second. The system eventually evolved into the metric system.

1988 – A fire broke out in the main switching room of the Hinsdale Central Office of the Illinois Bell telephone company, causing a telephone service outage for more than 40,000 local phone lines. It was considered to be the ‘worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history.’

1995 – The New York Times announced it would join eight other newspapers in the New Century Network. The network aimed to connect local online news services into a national service on the Web.

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