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DTNS 2927 – All Turk and No Pay

Daily Tech News Show / December 19th, 2016

How thousands of “clickworkers” on platforms like mechanical turk are powering the machine learning revolution and barely making ends meet. Hope Reese from Tech Republic talks to Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt about that and more.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 19, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 19th, 2016

Waymo’s Chrysler minivans to hit the streets soon, Apple and Ireland team up against the Eu on tax issues, Supreme Court may reduce patent cases in east Texas.

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Today in Tech History – December 19, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 19th, 2016

1958 – The first known radio broadcast from outer space was transmitted. US President Eisenhower spoke from a pre-recorded message aboard the Project SCORE experimental satellite. Redundancy paid off as the first recorder failed but the backup worked.

1972 – Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returned to Earth.

1999 – TIME Magazine announced Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, as its person of the year. The magazine cited online shopping and dot-com mania among the reasons.

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DTH Sunday History Break – 12/18/2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 18th, 2016

DTH Sunday History Break

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Today in Tech History – December 18, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 18th, 2016

1839 – John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first lunar photograph.

1878 – Joseph Swan demonstrated the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. His bulb would burn for about 40 hours. Edison’s later bulb would burn for closer to 150 hours.

1926 – In a letter to Nature, physicist Gilbert Newton Lewis used the word photon to describe a carrier of radiant energy. It eventually was used to apply to Einstein’s light quantum as well.

1987 – Larry Wall released the Perl scripting language. It would go from being a SysAdmin’s helper to one of the Web’s dominant scripting languages, for good or ill,

1997 – HTML 4.0 was recommended and published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the W3C. It offered the strict, transitional and frameset variations, and deprecated many of Netscape’s visual tags in favor of CSS.

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DTH Saturday History Break – 12/17/2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 17th, 2016

DTH Saturday history break.

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Today in Tech History – December 17, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 17th, 2016

1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.

1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.

1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.

2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.

2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered, causing noticeable dips in Internet traffic as fans flocked to theaters and avoided spoilers.

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DTNS 2926 – MD5 Don’t Jive

Daily Tech News Show / December 16th, 2016

Why would Yahoo or anyone use MD5 to has passwords in the last ten years? Darren Kitchen attempts to explain while Len Peralta tries to draw a picture relating his explanation to Star Wars.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 16, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / December 16th, 2016

Verizon wants a new deal for Yahoo, Turkey’s 3rd largest bank attacked, Nintendo Switch might work as VR.
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Today in Tech History – December 16, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 16th, 2016

1935 – A Time magazine article described the use of the pattern of capillaries in the retina as a means of identification called eye prints. Hello biometrics!

1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.

2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.

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