DTNS 2643 – Pay-ple of Walmart

Daily Tech News Show / December 10th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAlso, Comcast says data caps are just the same as paying for fuel and Verizon wants to let sponsors pay for your data caps. Are data caps here to stay? Tom Merritt and Justin Young discuss.

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PIDASW Ep. 06 – Return of the Jedi

PIDASW/ Shows / December 10th, 2015

RYANsWebPIDASWLuke and Anakin finally get some family time together but Palpatine messes it up. We meet the mini-bears who help out the Rebels. And SPAAACE BATTLES! Tom Merritt’s attempt to forget everything he knows about the Star Wars universe and embrace the story in episodic order.

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Today in Tech History – December 10, 2015

Today in Tech History / December 10th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1815 – Ada Byron was born in London, England to the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke. She would later marry William King and take on his title as Lady Lovelace. But she is best remembered as Charles Babbage’s friend, and writer of the first program for his Difference Engine. She is considered by many to be the first computer programmer.

In 1942 – Germany conducted the first powered test flight of a V-1 Rocket, launched from beneath an Fw-200.

In 1944 – Paul Otlet died. His theories presciently described a global interlinked “web” of documents, presaging the World Wide Web almost 50 years before its invention.

In 1993 – John Carmack and friends at iD Software released the video game Doom. It would launch a million mods and make the first person shooter the dominant form of video game for decades.

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DTNS 2642 – Leaking Mr. Bitcoin.

Daily Tech News Show / December 9th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com We know who invented Bitcoin. Yahoo is selling itself. Apple TV service canceled. These three statements are inaccurate. Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson tell you why.

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Today in Tech History – December 9, 2015

Today in Tech History / December 9th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1906 – Grace Hopper was born. She would rise to the rank of Rear Admiral but be best remembered for popularizing the term “debugging” for hunting down computer errors. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL.

In 1968 – Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart gave a legendary product demonstration of NLS that would become known as “the mother of all demos.” Among other things it introduced the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.

In 1987 – Microsoft released Windows 2.0 which among other improvements could run the first Windows versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

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DTNS 2641 – Exponomy

Daily Tech News Show / December 8th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGig economy? That’s what you use to make money to buy things int he “Experience Economy” apparently. Will companies shift from selling things to selling memories and transformations? Tom Merritt and Patrick Beja talk about what the heck that all means.

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Today in Tech History – December 8, 2015

Today in Tech History / December 8th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1931 – US Patent No. 1,835,031 for a “concentric conducting system” was awarded to Lloyd Espenschied of Kew Gardens, New York, and Herman A. Affel of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and assigned to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Coaxial Cable had been patented.

In 1993 – The US. secretary of defense declared the GPS system a dual use system that had Initial Operation Capability and opened the Standard Positioning System to civilians, which gave accuracy of nine meters horizontally.

In 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX became the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

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DTNS 2640 – Airbags and D-Bags

Daily Tech News Show / December 7th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGovernments are now calling for tech companies to shut down social networking and other communications to bad actors. Is it possible? Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss.

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