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Today in Tech History – June 16, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 16th, 2017

1911 – The Tabulating Company (founded by Herman Hollerith), the Computing Scale Company, and the International Time Recording Company merged to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. They would later change the company name to International Business Machines,and later just IBM.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/founded/

1963 – Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/tereshkova.html

1977 – Software Development Laboratories was incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. They later came up with the catchier name, Oracle.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/06/16/a-day-full-of-legendary-origins.aspx

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DTNS 3053 – Amazon picking up the Slack?

Daily Tech News Show / June 15th, 2017

More woes for Uber, Why spaces are better than tabs, and what Slack gets from Amazon if rumors of an acquisition are true.

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#296 – A Talk with James S. A. Corey

Shows/ Sword and Laser / June 15th, 2017

We talk to Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, the authors that make up James S. A. Corey, about coffee, distilled and fermented beverages and making The Expanse a TV show at BayCon 2017.

Daily Tech Headlines – June 15, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / June 15th, 2017

Why spaces make more money than tabs, Line has a duck and a bear for a smart speaker and Amazon’s interested in Slack.

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Today in Tech History – June 15, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 15th, 2017

1878 – Photographer Eadweard Muybridge used high-speed photography to capture a horse’s motion. The photos showed the horse with all four feet in the air during some parts of its stride. Stop-motion photography was born.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91483062/

1949 – Jay Forrester wrote down a proposal for core memory in his notebook. Core memory was the standard for computer memory until advances in semiconductors in the 1970s.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4375442/Forrester-records-a-proposal-for-core-memory-in-his-notebook–June-15–1949

1987 – Compuserve’s Sandy Trevor and his team, which included inventor Steve Wilhite, released GIF version 87a. The new enhanced format allowed people to create compressed animations. “Under Construction” GIFs everywhere became possible.
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/gif-history-steve-wilhite-olia-lialina-interview/

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DTNS 3052 – High Rent Rocket Real Estate

Daily Tech News Show / June 14th, 2017

Facebook improves safety check, a judge sentences people to install Lyft, and renovating old rockets into space stations.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 174

Cordkillers / June 14th, 2017

House of Cards (Season 5), Better Call Saul (308), Justified (609), Summer Movie Draft.
01:23 – Summer Movie Draft
05:39 – House of Cards (Season 5)
17:48 – Better Call Saul (308)
23:31 – Justified (609)

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 14, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / June 14th, 2017

Uber CEO steps away, Uber board member steps down, Microsoft patches Windows XP.

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Today in Tech History – June 14, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 14th, 2017

1822 – Charles Babbage announced his difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage.html

1951 – The US Census Bureau officially put UNIVAC I into service calling it the world’s first commercial computer.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/

1962 – The European Space Research Organization, which would become the European Space Agency, was established in Paris.
http://www.jaxa.jp/library/space_law/chapter_1/1-2-2-4_e.html

1967 – NASA launched Mariner 5 on its mission to fly by Venus.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1967-060A

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DTNS 3051 – Tom Has A Thought and Patrick Disagrees

Daily Tech News Show / June 13th, 2017

The best and worst from E3, plus Uber’s crumbling leadership and Apple’s position on cars.

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