DTNS 3018 – Grandpa Cook’s Old Timey Money Transfer

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com Is Apple launching a rival to PayPal’s mobile payment service Venmo? What’s at stake and how will it shape the future of mobile and digital payment? Scott Johnson and Justin Robert Young talk it out!

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 27, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Didi Chuxing may become the 2nd most valuable startup int he world, the US FCC reconsiders net neutrality and Nintendo earnings strengthen on Nintendo Switch sales.

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Today in Tech History – April 27, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1981 – The first mouse integrated with a personal computer made its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation.

1995 – The Justice Department sued to block Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, claiming the acquisition would raise prices and squash innovation. Intuit still exists but Microsoft Money is long gone.

1998 – Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the first known live interspecies chat with Koko the gorilla. Koko signed her answers; Penny Patterson interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator entered them in the computer.

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#290 – Let’s Get Stuck in Fantasyland!

Neil Gaiman makes sure the American Gods TV show is prepared for the sequel he hasn’t even written yet, why the Invisible Library doesn’t need to change the world to be awesome, and a plea for regular folks to get back to Fantasyland.

DTNS 3017 – New Kids on the Blockchain

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIs Twitter’s desire to become a 24 hour video channel crazy, brilliant or both? Plus a new Amazon Echo with a camera that helps dress you, and the US FCC decides to revise net neutrality rules.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 26, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Twitter wants to be 24/7 video channel, Instagram hits record growth, Note 7 refurbs coming in June.

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Today in Tech History – April 26, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the US House, by providing for contracts with an existing telegraph company. The article promised it could lead to 10 cent telegrams!

1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.

1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.

1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hours of recorded shows.

2014 – A team of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.

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DTNS 3016a – Microsoft Part 2: Electric Googaloo

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy Google is more like Microsoft than ever, plus three plans to improve news and two plans to bring self-driving cars to Phoenix and the Netherlands.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 25, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500The battle against fake news continues, Waymo starts free self-driving car service in Phoenix and Europe tries to ban region blocking.

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