Daily Tech Headlines – December 22, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 22nd, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Über halts autonomous car service in San Francisco, Raspberry Pi brings its OS to PC and Mac, Honda talks partnership with Waymo.

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Today in Tech History – December 22, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 22nd, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1666 – Seven mathematicians and seven physicists gathered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert met in the king’s library to found the French Academy of Sciences.

1882 – Edward H. Johnson of the Edison Illumination Company strung a single power cord with red white and blue lights on his Christmas tree becoming the first person to use Christmas tree lights.

1885 – A patent for a gravity switchback railway was issued to La Marcus Thompson of Coney Island, New York. You and I might call it a “roller coaster.”

1968 – At 3:01 PM Eastern time, Apollo 8 transmitted the first US. live telecast from a manned spacecraft in outer space.

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DTNS 2929 – Technically Young at Heart

Daily Tech News Show / December 21st, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comYou’re never too old for tech and Erin Carson shares the wonderful example of her late 97-year-old grandpa with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 21, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 21st, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Super Mario Run hits 40 million downloads, more Twitter execs depart, Uber adds new features and meets with California government about autonomous cars.

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Today in Tech History – December 21, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 21st, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1898 – Building on Henri Becquerel’s discovery of spontaneous radioactivity two years earlier the husband-and-wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie discovered Radium. Marie particularly figured out how to separate it from its radioactive residues.

1937 – Walt Disney’s first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opened in Los Angeles. It ran 83 minutes. It was also the first animated film produced in color.

1968 – Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew performed the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and became the first humans to leave Earth’s gravity. The Apollo Guidance Computer was the first computer to use integrated circuit logic.

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DTNS 2928 – Wireless Tech Strikes A Cord

Daily Tech News Show / December 20th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comPatrick Beja has his Apple Air Pods and wonders now what the future of wireless devices is? Are we getting near a world without cords? Tom Merritt and he discuss that Uber and the methbot.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 20, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 20th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Tim Cook promises desktops, EU wants Facebook on WhatsApp, Air Pods not easily recycled.

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Today in Tech History – December 20, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 20th, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1880 – New York’s Broadway from 14th to 26th street was first lighted by electricity and became known as the “Great White Way.”

1951 – In Idaho, the Experimental Breed Reactor no. 1 aka EBR-1 became the first power plant to produce electricity using atomic energy. It would take two more years to prove it could create more fuel than it consumed.

1990 – The first web server and page went live at CERN. It was only available internally. The first public web page wouldn’t be available until the following August.

1996 – Apple announced it would acquire NeXT Computer and bring co-founder Steve Jobs back to the company he left in 1985.

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