DTNS 2959 – iCVV What You Did There

Daily Tech News Show / February 2nd, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWith chip cards come new chip skimming attacks. Shannon Morse helps us understand the risks. Plus, what Intel chip Apple wants to replace in house.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 2, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 2nd, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Oculus has to pay fine, but Facebook’s making goof money and Apple might design a new chip for laptops.

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Today in Tech History – February 2, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 2nd, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1046 – English monks recorded “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” Their analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.

1931 – Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.

1935 – Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.

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#280 – Good Omens for 2018

Shows/ Sword and Laser / February 2nd, 2017

Neil Gaiman is running a new TV show and we’re excited! Plus the Arrival folks are making a Larry Niven short story into a show, and indie bookstores are booming! We also kick-off Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads.

DTNS 2958a – Face-top Box

Daily Tech News Show / February 1st, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comRobot sales are rising! Why machine vision and the Internet of Things is causing a revolution in factories and what that could mean for jobs. Plus EU eliminates roaming charges and Facebook might be making a TV app.

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Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / February 1st, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Tech headlines for 20170201.

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Today in Tech History – February 1, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 1st, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1951 -TV viewers witnessed the live detonation of an atomic bomb blast, as KTLA in Los Angeles broadcast the explosion of a nuclear device dropped on Frenchman Flats, Nevada.

1972 – Hewlett-Packard introduced the first scientific handheld calculator, the famous HP-35 for $395. It was the first handheld calculator to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke.

1985 – Shortly after its founding the November before, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute kicked off operations.

1997 – Dave Winer changed how he displayed ‘Scripting News’ so that it always showed the last ten days of posts. In other words, the way every blog does it now. Whether this makes it the ‘first blog’ or not, it was extremely influential and is definitely one of the oldest blogs out there, predating the term blog, of course.

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DTNS 2957a – There’s no place like ::

Daily Tech News Show / January 31st, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comEthan Banks from Packet Pushers joins us to explain why you need to know about the IPv6 transition.

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