Today in Tech History – April 15, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists, inventors and engineers in history, was born near the Tuscan town of Vinci.

1892 – The Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company merged to form the General Electric Company, manufacturer of dynamos and electric lights.

1977 – The first West Coast Computer Faire took place in Palo Alto, California. The star of the show would turn out to be the Apple II. The computer featured a built-in keyboard, 16 kilobytes of memory, BASIC, and eight expansion slots all for $1,300.

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DTNS 3009 – Mojo Ryzen

Daily Tech News Show / April 14th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe scoop on AMD’s Ryzen chips from Loyd Case, plus Apple gets an autonomous car license and might buy a piece of Toshiba.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 14, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 14th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook better at blocking fake accounts, T-Mobile buys big in US spectrum auction, Nintendo sells more copies of Zelda for Switch than actual Switch consoles.

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Today in Tech History – April 14, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1894 – Alfred Tate, a former Edison associate, and the Holland Brothers, opened a public Kinetoscope in New York City at 1155 Broadway, on the corner of 27th Street. It was the first commercial motion picture house.

1956 – Ampex demonstrated the VRX-1000 videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago. It was the first successful commercial videotape recorder.

1996 – Jennifer Kaye Ringley hooked up a camera in her dorm room at Dickinson College and set it to upload a picture every three minutes as an experiment. The JenniCam would eventually reach 4 million hits per day at its peak.

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DTNS 3008 – No Nintendo For You

Daily Tech News Show / April 13th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAmazon describes its secret sauce, a man builds his own iPhone Apple’s important medical work, and Nintendo is really sorry it won’t make any more Nintendo Classics.

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Daily Tech Headlines – April 13, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / April 13th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft has new events and a game refund program, Burger King’s Google Home adventure and a man who built his own iPhone.

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Today in Tech History – April 13, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 13th, 2017

1960 – The United States launched Navy Transit 1-B. It demonstrated the first engine restart in space and more famously the feasibility of using satellites as navigational aids, proving systems like GPS would work.

1970 – The crew of Apollo 13 heard a sharp bang and vibration followed by a warning light. Jack Swigert radioed back the famous words “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”

1974 – Western Union, NASA and Hughes Aircraft, teamed up to launch the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. The system relayed data, voice, video, and fax transmissions to the continental US., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Virgin islands.

2000 – Heavy metal band Metallica launched a lawsuit against Napster for enabling thievery and copyright infringement. It was the beginning of the end for Napster and all music piracy. Well, at least for Napster.

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#288 – Slow Readers Unite!

Shows/ Sword and Laser / April 13th, 2017

Hugo Nominees are in! The African Speculative Fiction Society nominees are in! People pressuring you to read 200 books a year are in. But us slow readers draw the line.

DTNS 3007 – What’s the Beef with the Google Home

Daily Tech News Show / April 12th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe many problems with Google Home, Amazon Echo and Burger King. Plus, Microsoft’s secret announcement, and Google’s AI that makes it look like you can draw.

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