DTNS 2741 – VPN Phantom of the Opera

Daily Tech News Show / April 21st, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comOpera’s making a free VPN, built in to its browser. How’s that going to sit with governments? Including the one that governs the Chinese companies trying to buy Opera? Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Today in Tech History – April 21, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 21st, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1962 – President John F. Kennedy opened the Seattle World’s Fair by telephone from Palm Beach, Florida. He pressed a gold telegraph key which focused an antenna at Andover, Maine and a Navy radio telescope station in Maryland on a star to pick up a 10,000 year-old radio signal. That in turn set in motion various exhibits at the fair.

1964 – Satellite Transit-5BN-3 failed to reach orbit after launch. It carried 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium from its SNAP RTG power source.

1988 – Tandy Corp. held a press conference in New York to announce its plans to build IBM PS/2 clones.

1989 – Nintendo released the original GameBoy in Japan. It sported the same controls as the NES and used black and gray pixels for the display.

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DTNS 2740 – Live Free or Math Hard

Daily Tech News Show / April 20th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUS Senators want to mandate decryption. Should US citizens be prevented from going outside the US in that case? How ill this affect tech business? How do we still track down the bad actors? Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson discuss the latest in the fight over strong encryption.

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Today in Tech History – April 20, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / April 20th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpg1926 – Sam Warner approved the sound-on-disc system created by Western Electric and created the Vitaphone company to develop the process to add sound to film.

1940 – Vladimir Zworykin and his team from RCA demonstrated the first electron microscope. It measured 10 feet high and weighed half a ton, achieving a magnification of 100,000x.

1964 – The first AT&T picturephone transcontinental call was made between test displays at Disneyland and the New York World’s Fair.

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DTNS 2739 – WiMax Lives!!!

Daily Tech News Show / April 19th, 2016

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Wireless Internet CAN replace wired sometimes and what it’s like to truly live the mobile device lifestyle. Patrick Beja talks with Tom Merritt on his experience living in Japan after previously living in France and Finland.

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Today in Tech History – April 19, 2016

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

20140404-073853.jpg1947 – A report appeared in Billboard magazine of the first public demonstration of the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar lens. The National Broadcasting Company in New York City conducted the demo and the zoom lens soon became standard TV equipment.

1957 – The first non-test FORTRAN program was compiled and run by Herbert Bright, manager of the data processing center at Westinghouse. It produced a missing comma diagnostic. Once fixed, a successful attempt followed.

1965 – “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” by Gordon Moore was published in Electronics. Moore projected that over the next ten years the number of components per chip would double every 12 months. By 1975 he turned out to be right, and the doubling became immortalized as “Moore’s law.”

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DTNS 2738 – Amazon Wants its Prime Cut

Daily Tech News Show / April 18th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAmazon Prime is an incubator! Why Amazon breaking out video as its own subscription may point the way tot he future. Lamarr Wilson and Tom Merritt discuss.

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