Daily Tech Headlines – August 18, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 18th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Uber sends self-driving cars to pick up passengers in Pittsburgh, T-Mobile’s somewhat limited unlimited plans, ICANN becomes independent of US.

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Today in Tech History – August 18, 2016

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

Today in Tech History logo1937 – The first Frequency Modulation or FM radio permit was granted to W1XOJ, in Paxton, Massachusetts. It went on the air with scheduled programs in May 1939 and operated with the highest output power (50 kilowatts) granted prior to World War II.

1947 – Eight years after William Hewlett and David Packard founded it, Hewlett-Packard was officially incorporated.

2005 – The largest and most widespread power outage in history happened on the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

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DTNS 2835 – Intel gets ARM-y

Daily Tech News Show / August 17th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIntel opens up to ARM chip manufacturing and tries to convince us that USB-C will be better than a 3.5mm headphone jack. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson discuss. One of them is convinced!

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 17, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 17th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel embraces ARM, Kobo makes the largest high-res reader and Univision buys Gawker.

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Today in Tech History – August 17, 2016

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

Today in Tech History logo1944 – Larry Ellison was born in the Bronx in New York City. 9 months later, after contracting pneumonia, he was taken to Chicago to be raised by his Aunt and Uncle. He would grow up to drop out of college, move to Berkeley and co-found Software Development Labs, one of the most successful corporations in history. Today it’s known as Oracle.

1982 – Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world’s first Compact Disc (not counting test pressings) at a Polygram factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany. The CD was “The Visitors” by Abba.

2000 – Nielsen/NetRatings announced that according to their data, more than half (52%) of United States households had Internet access for the first time. This confirmed Media Metrix’s report from April which estimated that 51% of US households now had Internet access.

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#266 – Are You Reading Too Much?

Shows/ Sword and Laser / August 17th, 2016

This week we dive into our (non-spoilery) thoughts on the Witcher and get excited about a movie based on Ted Chiang’s story and a TV series based on George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards. But Brad poses a question about how one tells if they’re reading too much.

DTNS 2834 – Now With More Lasers

Daily Tech News Show / August 16th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWe talk travel tech with Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler podcast.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 16, 2016

Daily Tech News Show / August 16th, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel launches a VR headset, Xbox wireless controllers come to PCs, Google launches its Facetime competitor.

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Today in Tech History – August 16, 2016

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

Today in Tech History logo1989 – A solar flare created a geomagnetic storm that caused three hard drives to fail in an otherwise fault-tolerant system at the Toronto Stock Exchange. This prevented access to critical market data, leading the exchange to be shut down for three hours.

1993 – Ian Murdock announced the Debian Linux distribution system. The name combined his then girlfriend Debra’s name with his own, Deb-Ian. And now you know how to properly pronounce it.

1994 – The IBM Simon went on sale, combining a mobile phone with computer functions. It weighed 500 grams, could run apps and be linked to a fax machine, selling for $899. The word smartphone hadn’t even been coined yet.

1995 – The first version Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer 1, debuted. It was based on Mosaic, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass Inc.

2011 – Xiaomi launched their first phone, the M1 or ‘Xiaomi Phone’ with a 1.5 GHz dual core chip and 1 GB of RAM for ¥1,999.

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