DTNS 2925 – #PortalToHell #HellPortal

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comOne billion Yahoo accounts compromised, Twitch lets anyone stream about anything, Mario arrives on iOS and Justin Robert Young explains to Tom Merritt why Facebook’s fake news system could open a portal to hell.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 15, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x15001 billion Yahoo accounts breached, President Trump meets with tech execs, FCC’s Tom Wheeler announces resignation.

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Today in Tech History – December 15, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1953 – Dudley Buck entered the idea for the Cryotron into his MIT notebook. The cryotron is a four-terminal superconductive computer component.

1965 – Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

1994 – Netscape shipped version 1.0 of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.

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DTNS 2924 – What Happens in Vegas, Stays on AWS

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comBen Johnson from Marketplace tech talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about his show Codebreaker as well as drone deliveries, Amazon Echos in hotel rooms, snapchat surgery and autonomous cars.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 14, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook gets into TV, Amazon Prime Video goes worldwide and begins drone delivery.

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Today in Tech History – December 14, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1900 – German physicist Max Planck published his theory that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as “quantum.” And quantum physics was born.

1972 – Eugene Cernan ended a 7 hour and 15 minute EVA, climbed back aboard the Apollo 17 Lunar Module and became the last person to walk on the moon.

1996 – John Tu and David Sun, the founders of Kingston Technology took $100 million from the sale of their privately held enterprise and gave it to employees, a spontaneous gesture to those who had helped make the memory-module company a market leader.

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DTNS 2923 – Self-Driving Food

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comFunding for on-demand delivery services is slowing. Can autonomous cars save the DoorDashes and Delivs of the world? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 13, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google decides to partner on cars, Apple releases its AirPods and Snapchat adds Groups.

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Today in Tech History – December 13, 2016

Today in Tech History logo1962 – NASA “Relay 1” launched, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

1977 – Young Bill Gates was arrested for a traffic violation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leading to one of the most famous mugshots ever.

1977 – Robert Metcalfe et. al were awarded a patent for “Multipoint data communication system with collision detection” also known as ethernet.

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