Today in Tech History – August 27, 2015

Today in Tech History / August 27th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1962 – NASA launched the Mariner 2 unmanned space mission to Venus.

In 1989 – The first direct-to-home TV satellite launched from Cape Canaveral. Marco Polo I delivered the British Satellite Broadcasting service to homes in the UK.

In 2003 – Fairbanks, Alaska got the world’s biggest UPS backup. The city hooked up the world’s largest storage battery, built to provide an uninterrupted power supply of 40 megawatts.

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DTNS 2567 – YouTube Can Play At This Game

Daily Tech News Show / August 26th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comYouTube takes on Twitch in game streaming. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt gauge their chances of success.

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Today in Tech History – August 26, 2015

Today in Tech History / August 26th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1938 – A New York radio station first used the Philips-Miller system of tape recording on a radio broadcast.

In 1984 – Miss Manners confronted her first computer issue. The columnist responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer.

In 1996 – Netscape Communications Corp. announced it had partnered with several other big companies to create a software company called Navio Corp. Navio was meant to create an operating system to compete with Windows.

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DTNS 2566 – You’re S-Penning It Wrong!

Daily Tech News Show / August 25th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comMicrosoft is just the latest company to show off 3D scanning software for a consumer phone. With MIT’s new 10-material printer, Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss far we are from being able to replicate things with our phone.

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Today in Tech History – August 25, 2015

Today in Tech History / August 25th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1609 – Galileo Galilei craftily beat a Dutch telescope maker to an appointment with the Doge of Venice. Galileo impressed the Doge and received a lifetime appointment and a doubled salary. Later that autumn, Galileo pointed his telescope to the Moon, and trouble began.

In 1981 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn. Eight years later on the same day in 1989, Voyager 2 would make its closest approach to Neptune.

In 1991 – 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds wrote a newsgroup post about a free operating system he was working on. He said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu.” His OS would eventually be called Linux.

In 2014 – Amazon announced it had acquired Twitch.TV the popular video game streaming site. Rumors had indicated Google was going to buy the company, but the deal fell through.

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DTNS 2565 – Dat Battery Tho

Daily Tech News Show / August 24th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow Twitter was more restrictive about speech than the European Court of Justice. Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont discuss.

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Today in Tech History – August 24, 2015

Today in Tech History / August 24th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1456 – According to a handwritten note by illustrator Heinrich Cremer, the final binding of the Gutenberg Bible took place.

In 1995 – Microsoft released Windows 95. During development it was referred to as Windows 4.0 or by the internal codename “Chicago.”

In 2001 – WebKit received its first commit of code from Apple. The Safari browser appeared two years later and WebKit was open sourced in 2005.

In 2011 – Steve jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, handing over the job to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.

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Today in Tech History – August 23, 2015

Daily Tech News Show / August 23rd, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1852 – The first time signals were transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

In 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

In 1993 – Nintendo agreed to use Silicon Graphics Inc. technology in a video game player it was developing.

In 2012 – Microsoft unveiled a new logo for the first time in 25 years, opting for simple squares of color and block type with an overlapping ‘f’ and ‘t’.

In 2013 – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced he would retire within the next 12 months.

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