The relegation picture sharpens but is not resolved. Plus why the league must take action against Starkiller.
Today in Tech History – October 15, 2016
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company began operation. They would go on to become more general. As in making up a significant part of General Electric.
1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language was shared with the public for the first time. The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System made John Backus a legend, kicked off modern programming, and is still developed by the Fortran Standards Technical Committee.
2003 – China launched the Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission, becoming the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability. Yang Liwei piloted the capsule showing the flags of the People’s Republic of China and the United Nations.
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DTNS 2879 – IoT SSH SOS SOL
Are IoT devices the new backdoor for cyber attacks, criminals and miscreants ? Shannon Morse joins Scott Johnson to discuss.
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Daily Tech Headlines – October 14, 2016
Google starts noting fact check articles, Instagram comes to Windows 10, VMWare partners with Amazon.
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Today in Tech History – October 14, 2016
1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than 100 years until digital stole its thunder.
1977 – The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.
1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.
1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the enduser of Linux.
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DTNS 2878 – Asgardian Space Pirates
Samsung is only the latest company bitten by the volatile nature of lithium ion batteries. Could hydrogen fuel cells bring us stable, longer-lasting power? Maybe, maybe not. Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt discuss why.
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Daily Tech Headlines – October 13, 2016
Samsung offers more refunds, a hack to bring Google Assistant to any phone, and Snapchat eyes an IPO.
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Today in Tech History – October 13, 2016
1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.
1983 – Bob Barnett, president of Ameritech Mobile communications, called Alexander Graham Bell’s nephew from Chicago’s Soldier Field using a Motorola DynaTAC handset. It marked the launch of the first cellular telephone network in the US.
1985 – The first observation of a proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
2000 – Tristan Louis suggested sound and video tags be added to the 0.92 spec for RSS feeds. This led to enclosures which allowed media files to be delivered through RSS and paved the way for podcasting.
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#270 – Be a Cat Burglar for Good!
We don’t want you to steal cats (not even books, really), just to take home the exhibit from the Museum of Science Fiction. We’ll explain! Plus, you must cast your vote for the classic or the new! Will you vote against Veronica?
DTNS 2877 – I Put on My Robe and VR Hat
Nolan Bushnell is behind a company that wants to sell football field size VR to the enterprise. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson discuss that and whether they want to pay $4 to quote lyrics to their Amazon Echos.
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