DTNS 2698 – Alexa All Over Your House

Daily Tech News Show / February 26th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAmazon’s on a hiring spree for Echo and Alexa.Michael Wolf talks with Tom Merritt about Amazon’s smart home domination plans. Len Peralta is here to illustrate the show too!

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Today in Tech History – February 26, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 26th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1896 – Hoping to test the sun’s ability to create X-rays, Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. It was cloudy.

In 1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

In 1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

In 2015 – The US FCC voted 3-2 to implement new Open Internet Rules and classify Internet Service Providers as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

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DTNS 2697 – Carpe Drone-um

Daily Tech News Show / February 25th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHigh School students in Chicago will have to take a computer science class in order to graduate, starting with the fall freshman class. Is this the right way to promote tech literacy? Do we have enough teacher’s for this? Tom Merritt and Justin Young discuss.

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Today in Tech History – February 25, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 25th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1837 – The US Patent Office approved Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.

In 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

In 1930 – A US patent for a photographing apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It was the first bank check photographing device.

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DTNS 2696 – Xamarin May Cause Invalid Page Faults

Daily Tech News Show / February 24th, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comThe ad blocking wars pit your privacy and security agains publisher’s need to make money and a mobile ad panel at MWC turns heated. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson discuss where the line should be.

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Today in Tech History – February 24, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 24th, 2016

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1949 – A modified German V-2 ballistic missile launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of 244 miles, and putting it well above the Kármán line. It was the first US rocket to reach “outer space.”

In 1955 – A boy was born to University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. He was given up for adoption and taken in by a machinist and his wife in Mountain View, California. They named him Steve Jobs.

In 2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its final mission.

In 2014 – Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 with a heart rate sensor and water and dust proofing.

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DTNS 2695 – Will VR break your hip?

Daily Tech News Show / February 23rd, 2016

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comVirtual reality got a big boost from phone manufacturers and IBM’s Watson this week, among others. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt sort through it all and try to make sense of it.

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Today in Tech History – February 23, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / February 23rd, 2016

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1893 – Germany’s Imperial Patent Office granted Rudolph Diesel Patent No. 67207 for “a new efficient thermal engine”. We just call it, the Diesel engine.

In 1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge signed Public Law no. 632 establishing the Federal Radio Commission which was later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission.

In 1927 – German physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, describing the uncertainty principle for the first time. He submitted a paper on the principle for publication the following March.

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