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DTNS 2857 – Feeling Schwifty on Smartwatches

Daily Tech News Show / September 15th, 2016

Are smart watches already in decline? CNET notes few new Android watches are planned for 2016. Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 15, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 15th, 2016

iPhone 7 Plus sells out before launch day, Pandora launches new paid streaming radio service, NYC shuts down public Web browsing terminals.

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Today in Tech History – September 15, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 15th, 2016

1947 – The Association for Computing Machinery was founded as the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, during a meeting at Columbia University in New York. It developed into the world’s largest organization of computer professionals.

1947 – RCA released the 12AX7 vacuum tube for public sale. The miniature dual triode vacuum tube with high voltage gain became popular with tube amplifier enthusiasts and has been in continuous production since. The tube is also known as the ECC83 in the European Union.

2008 – Electronics retailer Best Buy acquired the Napster music service for $121 million, preventing the once dominating music-sharing service from going out of business.

2014 – Microsoft announced they would purchase Mojang, makers of the Minecraft universe. Mojang’s founders, Notch, Carl, and Jakob, announced they would leave the company.

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#268 – "Underrated" is Not a Dirty Word

Shows/ Sword and Laser / September 14th, 2016

We praise the underrated and print books, and we get into the dog-eat-dog world of Fire Upon the Deep!

DTNS 2856 – The Eagle Has Landed On The Drone

Daily Tech News Show / September 14th, 2016

Uber launches their self-driving car test for passengers in Pittsburgh. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt talk about how long before it becomes the norm. Plus eagles that take down drones in the Netherlands.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 14, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 14th, 2016

Uber goes autonomous Twitter brings live video to Apple TV, Amazon Echo turns white launches in UK and Germany.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 136

Cordkillers / September 14th, 2016

Summer Movie Draft, Mr. Robot (209-210), Justified (308).

00:41 – Summer Movie Draft

03:48 – Mr. Robot (209-210)

25:27 – Justified (308)

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Today in Tech History – September 14, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 14th, 2016

1959 – After 33.5 hours of flight, Luna 2 became the first human-made object to strike the moon.

2000 – Microsoft released Windows ME. The ME stood for Millenium Edition but deserving or not, would eventually become code for a bad or unnecessary OS update.

2001 – The Nintendo GameCube went on sale in Japan. It was the first Nintendo game console that did not use cartridges.

2015 – The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves of two merging black holes. It was the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

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DTNS 2855 – Project Fi’s Big In Japan

Daily Tech News Show / September 13th, 2016

iOS 10 arrives, Samsung solves its battery problem, and Tom Merritt talks with Patrick Beja about his experience roaming on T-Mobile and Project Fi while in Japan and Korea.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 13, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / September 13th, 2016

iPhone 7 bats records, Twitter ads exemptions to 140 character limit, Netflix fights data caps.

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