Daily Tech Headlines – March 16, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 16th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Nvidia partners with big car parts suppliers, Google offers Families more control over kids, Russia denies involvement in Yahoo hacks.

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Today in Tech History – March 16, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.

1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online and would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.

1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.

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DTNS 2987 – Those Yahoos Got Arrested

Daily Tech News Show / March 15th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comYahoo hackers indicted, Neural Nets taught to remember, and Google comes for your kids.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 15, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 15th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Yahoo attackers indicted, vibrator maker fined for data collection, Gmail payments comes to Android.

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Today in Tech History – March 15, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.

1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first dot-com domain name, symbolics.com. The domain is now owned by an investment company who uses it as a marketing device. The remains of the original Symbolics company survived in altered form at symbolics-dks.com.

2004 – Nicolas Jacobsen posted to a forum that he had hacked into T-Mobile’s network and stolen information from major celebrities like Paris Hilton. Jacobsen was later charged with two counts of violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

2016 – DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program defeated 18-time Go champion Lee Se-dol in the 5th match of a five-match series for a series win of four matches to one. Lee won only the fourth game. The Korea Baduk Association gave an honorary ninth-dan ranking to AlphaGo.

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DTNS 2986 – Free Range Mecha-Cow

Daily Tech News Show / March 14th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAn Android phone that’s a case for your iPhone, a face mask to keep your phone conversations private, and human flesh grown on robots.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 14, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / March 14th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500PS4 games come to PS Now, Tag Heuer’s $1,650 smartwatch, Microsoft Teams launches for Office 365.

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