Twin Peaks returns, in more ways than one as things appear to start tying together. Nicole Spagnuolo joins us to revel in Bobby Briggs’ finest hour and to be repulsed by Chad.
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Today in Tech History – July 9, 2017
1941 – British cryptologists including Alan Turing broke the code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the eastern front.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enigma-key-broken
1971 – Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He would grow up to develop the Netscape browser, which powered the explosion of the Web in the late 1990s.
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-andreessen-9542208
1979 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 kilometers of the planet.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/history/70s/Voyager2_1979.htm
1982 – Disney released the movie Tron, which used the most extensive computer-generated graphics and special effects to that time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/
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Today in Tech History – July 8, 2017
1908 – Charles Urban demonstrated Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process, at a scientific meeting in Paris attended by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
http://books.google.com/books?id=JGoLZrIqa_wC&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=july+8+1908+kinemacolor&source=bl&ots=txw5pg8N-G&sig=BXNkiUCZrOEpNgbV01fq80SiEwM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iwGnU6KlFoTZoATB_4KQBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=july%208%201908%20kinemacolor&f=false
1946 – The University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering began a summer school course on computing that inspired the EDSAC, BINAC, and, many other similar computers.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200208/history.cfm
2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on the final Space Shuttle mission.
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DTNS 3068 – The Insecurity of Cybersecurity
Samsung’s riding high, Jawbone’s not and Dan Patterson’s adventures at a Ukrainian cybersecurity summit.
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- Top Story
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- Messages of the Day
- (23:44) Anonymous Amazon Employee
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Len Peralta’s “The Four Components of CyberDefense”
Daily Tech Headlines – July 7, 2017
Microsoft lays off people to refocus on cloud, George Hotz sells a car toolkit and Samsung gets ready for its most profitable quarter yet.
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Today in Tech History – July 7, 2017
1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard was born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor created the first programmable power loom and the cards he used to program it would be adapted by Herman Hollerith and others for programming the first computers.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/7/
1936 – Henry F. Phillips received patents for a new kind of screw and the screwdriver used with it. Endless numbers of computer cases have been held together by it since.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=MINJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1981 – The first solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, flew 163 miles from Corneille-en-Verin Airport north of Paris across the English Channel to Manston Royal Air Force Base south of London, staying aloft 5 hours and 23 minutes.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-054-DFRC.html
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DTNS 3067 – Bonfire Of The Inanity
The new best hope for Moore’s Law, Google back to its old self in VR and why Amazon and Dish may be talking partnership again.
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#298 – Don’t Get Eaten By a Bear
George R. R. Martin has even more money coming his way, public domain books clean up nice, we love the Locus Award winners, and why Veronica is not allowed to let a bear eat her.
Daily Tech Headlines – July 6, 2017
Snap gets links, Nokia partners with Zeiss, and Amazon and Dish may partner on IoT.
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Today in Tech History – July 6, 2017
1920 – A US Navy F5L seaplane took off from Hampton Roads, Virginia, using a radio compass for the first time. The pilots located and flew to the Battleship Ohio about 94 miles offshore.
http://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/july-6.html
1947 – The AK-47 went into production in the Soviet Union– the name stands for Automatic rifle Kalashnikov model of 1947.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/07/dayintech_0706/
1996 – AOL settled lawsuits in California that accused the company of misleading subscribers about monthly service charges.
http://news.cnet.com/AOL-to-settle-class-action-suits/2100-1023_3-216681.html
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