DTNS 2579 – One More Ad, With Feeling

Daily Tech News Show / September 11th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comStartups are beginning to do emotion detection on video and even offer “emotion as a service.” Do we want advertisers to know how we feel? Natali Morris and Tom Merritt discuss, while Len Peralta draws live.

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Today in Tech History – September 11, 2015

Today in Tech History / September 11th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1928 – Radio station WGY of General Electric made the first simulcast in Schenectady, New York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

In 1985 – ISEE-3, renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), flew through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.

In 1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

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DTNS 2578 – It’s An App App App App World

Daily Tech News Show / September 10th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comPrint is dying. Music is dying. TV is dying. App use is on the rise. Is all this true or just a clever shell game? Ewen Rankin, from British Tech Network, and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Today in Tech History – September 10, 2015

Today in Tech History / September 10th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1990 – Peter Deutsch posted to comp.archives about the Internet Archive Server called “Archie” that he, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan had put together. It is often considered the Internet’s first search engine.

In 1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.

In 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN powered up in Geneva, Switzerland, on its quest to discover the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.

In 2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.

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DTNS 2577 – Don’t Punch the Monkey, Instagram!

Daily Tech News Show / September 9th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comApple announced a big iPad, a touched iPhone, an Apple TV you can gesture at and talk to and a rose gold Apple Watch. Scott Johnson Adam Christianson from Mac Cast and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Today in Tech History – September 9, 2015

Today in Tech History / September 9th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1940 – In McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College, George Stibitz demonstrated the first remote operation of a computer. He connected to his Complex Number Generator at Bell labs by telephone using 28-wire teletype cable.

In 1947 – While troubleshooting the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, operators found a moth trapped between the points of relay #70 in Panel F. They affixed the bug to the log and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.” While this was not the first use of the term ’bug’ for a computer problem, ‘debugging’ became popular for fixing bugs after this case.

In 1999 – The Sega Dreamcast debuted in North America. However many were distracted by the supposed 9/9/99 bug that ended up being just as much of a non-problem as the Y2K bug.

In 2014 – Apple announced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6+ along with Apple Pay, a system that used NFC for payments. The company also unveiled the Apple Watch.

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DTNS 2576 – Space Whisky

Daily Tech News Show / September 8th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comCan anybody replicate Xiaomi’s success in China/ And will their budget approach ruing them in the end? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss that, space whisky and more.

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Today in Tech History – September 8, 2015

Today in Tech History / September 8th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1930 – The first roll of waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape was sold. Its brand name “Scotch” has become synonymous with cellophane tape.

In 1966 – The TV show Star Trek made its network television debut with the episode “The Man Trap”. Star Trek would have a profound influence on future technology thought and design.

In 2004 – NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-landed whenits parachute failed to open.

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DTNS 2575 – Headlines

Daily Tech News Show / September 7th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIt’s the Labour Day holiday so Tom reads some headlines about a wealth of new phones coming to India, a new top phone maker in the US, and why eBook sales are declining.

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