Daily Tech Headlines – April 21, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 21st, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google Music becomes default on Samsung, Windows 10 and Office go to twice-yearly releases, Twitch opens up money-making to more streamers.

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Today in Tech History – April 21, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 21st, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1962 – President John F. Kennedy opened the Seattle World’s Fair by telephone from Palm Beach, Florida. He pressed a gold telegraph key which focused an antenna at Andover, Maine and a Navy radio telescope station in Maryland on a star to pick up a 10,000 year-old radio signal. That in turn set in motion various exhibits at the fair.

1964 – Satellite Transit-5BN-3 failed to reach orbit after launch. It carried 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium from its SNAP RTG power source.

1988 – Tandy Corp. held a press conference in New York to announce its plans to build IBM PS/2 clones.

1989 – Nintendo released the original GameBoy in Japan. It sported the same controls as the NES and used black and gray pixels for the display.

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DTNS 3013 – Does this smell anti-trust-y to you?

Daily Tech News Show / April 20th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle, the biggest ad company on the planet, wants to block ads in its Chrome browser, plus a squeezable phone and using sound to dry your clothes.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 20, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 20th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Chrome might get an ad blocker, Facebook wants to read your brain, and Microsoft replaces Wunderlist.

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Today in Tech History – April 20, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 20th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1926 – Sam Warner approved the sound-on-disc system created by Western Electric and created the Vitaphone company to develop the process to add sound to film.

1940 – Vladimir Zworykin and his team from RCA demonstrated the first electron microscope. It measured 10 feet high and weighed half a ton, achieving a magnification of 100,000x.

1964 – The first AT&T picturephone transcontinental call was made between test displays at Disneyland and the New York World’s Fair.

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DTNS 3012 – Nintentional Scarcity

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comChina’s Baidu’s move to capture the self-driving car market, Alphabet’s move to use data to discover ways to stop people getting sick, plus our picks for to-do management.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 19, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook’s announcements from F8, Microsoft offers password-free login, Baidu opens up autonomous car platform.

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