It’s a special, super-sized Spoilerin’ Time with Anthony Carboni, Jeff Cannata, Owen JJ Stone, Kristi Kates, and Jaime Ruiz-Alvera, who join Tom and Brian to talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Cordkillers 101 – Time Bandwidths
Netflix wants to save you bandwidth, cable companies have some double-edged good news, and the hot new shows coming in 2015.
DTNS 2649 – The Retail Force Awakens
Apple and Samsung get agreements to start mobile payments in China and Target is reportedly investigating their own. Patrick Norton and Tom Merritt discuss why mobile payments is such a mess.
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Today in Tech History – December 18, 2015
In 1839 – John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first lunar photograph.
In 1878 – Joseph Swan demonstrated the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. His bulb would burn for about 40 hours. Edison’s later bulb would burn for closer to 150 hours.
In 1987 – Larry Wall released the Perl scripting language. It would go from being a SysAdmin’s helper to one of the Web’s dominant scripting languages, for good or ill, depending on the coder.
In 1997 – HTML 4.0 was recommended and published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the W3C. It offered the strict, transitional and frameset variations, and deprecated many of Netscape’s visual tags in favor of CSS.
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DTNS 2648 – WhatsApp Judge?
Brazil briefly bans WhatsApp and Turner will kick off their new esports coverage with a CS:GO tourney at CES. Jenn Cutter talks with Tom Merritt about whether Turner can avoid past esports TV mistakes and what’s in store for esports in general in 2016.
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Today in Tech History – December 17, 2015
In 1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.
In 1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.
In 1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.
In 2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.
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East Meets West 341 – Holiday Special!
Christmas day television special, Star Wars toys for Christmas, a break for Tito’s Tacos, why holidays are weird, the changing of holidays, getting old, schools, and we make our predictions.
DTNS 2647 – Searching For 2015
Europe’s clamping down on piracy while the US tries to sneak in a cybersurveillance bill. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson talk about that and why “Facebook” is still the top Google search of the year.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 100
Winter Movie Draft, Triage, Transparent (201), Fargo (209)
00:50 – Winter Movie Draft
05:02 – Triage (Movie Draft)
07:33 – Triage (The Leftovers)
10:09 – Transparent (201)
15:55 – Fargo (209)
Today in Tech History – December 16, 2015
In 1935 – A Time magazine article described the use of the pattern of capillaries in the retina as a means of identification called eye prints. Hello biometrics!
In 1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.
In 2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.
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