DTH – Saturday History Break

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500DTH Saturday history break.

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Today in Tech History – March 4, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1976 – The first Freon-cooled Cray-1 supercomputer was shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories, in New Mexico at a cost of $19,000,000.

2000 – The Sony PlayStation 2 went on sale in Japan.

2007 – Election Day was held in Estonia, and for the first time in the world, voters were allowed to vote on the Internet. Approximately 30,000 voters took advantage of electronic voting. Ballots had to be completed three days before election day.

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DTNS Friday Announcement/Headlines

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy the Friday show will be on Saturday and the headlines for Friday.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 3, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500NBC buys a chunk of SNAP, Spotify hits 50 million users and you can now store data in DNA.

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Today in Tech History – March 3, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1847 – In Edinburgh, Scotland, an expert in vocal physiology and elocution welcomed his newborn son into the world. He was named after his father. Alexander Graham Bell would go on to become synonymous with the telephone.

1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York State as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

1966- The BBC announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour the following year, becoming the first European broadcaster to provide regular colour broadcasts.

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DTNS 2978 – There Will Be Dongles

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow an Amazon typo broke the Internet, the bad taste of Nintendo, and how Overwatch may have saved Blizzard.

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Daily Tech Headlines – March 2, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500SNAP IPO, Yahoo breach fallout and Ryzen is rising.

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Today in Tech History – March 2, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1908 – Gabriel Lippman proposed using a series of lenses at a picture’s surface instead of opaque barrier lines, allowing three dimensional pictures. He titled his presentation to the French Academy of Sciences “La Photographie Integral”.

1983 – CBS Records launched the first major compact disc music marketing campaign, launching 16 titles. CDs had gone on sale to the public the previous October in Japan.

2004 – Review site Engadget launched with a post about T-Flash, a new memory card format, by founder Peter Rojas.

2010 – The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected legislation requiring electronic communications traffic data retention for a period of 6 months as a violation of the guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence.

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#283 – The Madness Begins

The Nebula Award Nominees are out, the Gateway is in and we’re glad we traveled The Salt Roads. But most of all we’re geared up for the March Madness tournament of fantasy. Get your voting fingers clicking folks!

DTNS 2977 – This Network is a Mesh

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comOppo’s clever way to bring optical zoom to phones, Twitter’s new anti-harassment measures and what to think about when buying a router.

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