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DTNS 2676 – Your Vote Could Not Be Completed as Dialed.

Daily Tech News Show / January 28th, 2016

Is Microsoft the new Diebold? Microsoft partnered with InterKnowlogy to create a system to improve reporting of results from the Iowa Caucus this year, part of the US Presidential Election system. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Today in Tech History – January 28, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 28th, 2016

In 1878 – The first commercial telephone exchange in the US was installed at New Haven, Connecticut, and served 21 subscribers connected by a single strand of iron wire. Only two conversations could be handled simultaneously and six connections had to be made for each call.

In 1960 – The Communications Moon Relay System was inaugurated publicly when a facsimile picture of the USS Hancock was transmitted wirelessly by radio wave to Washington DC, by being bounced off the moon.

In 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger experienced an O-ring failure in the right solid rocket booster during flight. 73 seconds after liftoff a catastrophic explosion claimed crew and vehicle.

In 2001 – The Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants faced off in Tampa Bay, Florida, for Super Bowl XXXV, and facial-recognition surveillance cameras pointed at tens of thousands of fans entering the game. It found 12 false positives.

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DTNS 2675 – Apple Falls Far From The Trend

Daily Tech News Show / January 27th, 2016

Is Apple’s hot streak over? Tom Merritt Scott Johnson and Breki Tomasson discuss. Plus machine learning gets better at Go and recognizing things.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 105

Cordkillers / January 27th, 2016

Mad Dogs (102-103), The Expanse (101-107), The Magicians (101), Justified (102)

00:36 – Winter Movie Draft

02:18 – Mad Dogs (102-103) with Romany Malco!

24:09 – The Expanse (101-107)

33:39 – The Magicians (101)

42:35 – Justified (102)

46:32 – Triage

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Today in Tech History – January 27, 2016

Today in Tech History / January 27th, 2016

In 1948 – IBM dedicated its “SSEC” in New York City. The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator handled both data and instructions using electronic circuits made with 13,500 vacuum tubes and 21,000 relays.

In 1967 – The first US astronauts died in the line of duty. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfed their command module during testing for the first Apollo-Saturn mission.

In 2006 – Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. The company still handles money transfers.

In 2010 – Apple announced the iPad, a tablet computer running the same operating system as the iPhone.

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DTNS 2674 – Mule Fiber

Daily Tech News Show / January 26th, 2016

Sony’s doubling down on video games and internet of things while French cab drivers burn tires to protest Uber. Plus Tom Merritt and Lamarr Wilson follow up with your thoughts on what Twitter is good for.

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Today in Tech History – January 26, 2016

Today in Tech History / January 26th, 2016

In 1932 – The US Patent Office received a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a “Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions.”

In 1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory saw first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope. Hubble photographed Hubble’s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261).

In 1983 – Lotus began selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. It would quickly become the most popular spreadsheet software but not make the transition to Windows well and fall behind Excel permanently.

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Cordkillers 105 – Sportskillers

Cordkillers / January 25th, 2016

Would you pay $8 for ESPN standalone? $20? $36? Can ESPN subscribe in a cord-cutting world? Also, the fallout from Netflix’s International expansion and Apple TV gets a podcasts app again. With special guest Justin Robert Young.

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DTNS 2673 – Twitter Executives Migrate

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2016

The Twitter executive exodus continues and the stock drops. Do you use it? 300+ million people do. Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont, and Patrick Beja discuss whether Twitter is in trouble and what it’s good for anyway.

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Today in Tech History – January 25, 2016

Today in Tech History / January 25th, 2016

In 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company in agreement with the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China and several other Asian countries.

In 1915 – AT&T inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, CA The line had been completed the previous summer too early for the Panama Pacific Exposition, where it was introduced.

In 1921 – A play called Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) by Karel Capek debuted at the National Theater in Prague. It was the first appearance of the word robot. Spoiler alert, the robots end up killing all the humans but one.

In 1979 – Robert Williams was killed on the job in a Flat Rock, Michigan, casting plant, becoming the first recorded human death by robot.

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