World-shattering news as the league puts Coruscant in new hands. Who will be the Heir to the Empire?
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Today in Tech History – July 19, 2014
In 1961 – Trans World Airlines began offering regular in-flight movies on scheduled flights. The first film shown, only in the first class cabin, mind you, was “By Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
In 1983 – Michael W. Vannier and his co-workers J. Marsh and J. Warren published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single computed tomography (CT) slices of the human head.
In 2004 – Apple announced the fourth-generation iPod with 12-hour battery life and the ability to shuffle songs. HP announced they would sell an HP branded version of this model of the iPod.
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DTNS 2281 – Sane Plane Game
Darren Kitchen is back and we’ve got a well-reasoned arguments why low-flying drones could cause serious problems. Also a stolen ID database that sort of doxxes hackers and normals alike, and Kindle’s devious all-you-can-eat ebook service. And Len Peralta illustrates something out of that gumbo of tech news.
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Today in Tech History – July 18, 2014
In 1968 – Robert Noyce, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore incorporated Moore and Noyce electronics, swiftly renamed at Noyce’s daughter’s suggestion to Integrated Electronics Corporation, or Intel for short.
In 1992 – Silvano de Gennaro, an IT developer at CERN took a picture of the singing group ‘Les Horribles Cernettes’ who sang mostly about physics. Tim Berners-Lee would later use that picture as a test, making it the first photo uploaded to the World Wide Web.
In 2001 – Apple announced Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first update to OS X.
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DTNS 2280 – Finnish Him!
Breki Tomasson joins us to talk about Microsoft’s Satya Nadella swinging the ax at Nokia X Android phones, Xbox Entertainment Studios and 18,000 employees.
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Today in Tech History – July 17, 2014
In 1899 – Nippon Electric Company Ltd. (NEC) was founded by Iwadare Kunihiko, an expert in telegraphic systems who worked under Thomas Edison. Western Electric provided funding, making it the first Japanese joint-venture with a foreign company.
In 1997 – DNS was widely disrupted making email routing and web page delivery spotty throughout the day. An Ingres database failure resulted in corrupt .COM and .NET zone files. A system administrator mistakenly released the zone file without regenerating the file and verifying its integrity.
In 2002 – Apple announced PC versions of the iPod with MusicMatch software instead of iTunes. The company also announced a 20 GB version of the music player and touch-sensitive scroll wheel and dropped the prices.
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Presenting Tech Republic’s Five Apps Show
For awhile Tech Republic has a had a great blog called ‘five apps’ that gets experts in various fields to contribute picks for five great apps to help business and productivity. Jason Hiner, Editor-in-Chief of Tech Republic was nice enough to ask me to present a video version of these excellent posts in a new video show called, you guessed it, “Five Apps.”
I’ve been working hard along with Bill Detwiler from Tech republic and Joe Koonce my camera/lighting/allotherthings guy to get these together!
Look for apps that every new Android user should install, apps to keep CXOs ahead of the pack, and overlooked, but really cool calendar apps, and more at Techrepublic.com.
You can find the shows as they’re released weekly on the Five Apps blog.
DTNS 2279 – Tesla Sells S3X
Nicole Lee joins us to chat about G+ reversing the real name policy and where this weird social network fits in the landscape of the Internet. Also more on IBM and Apple making friends.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 28 – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Orphan Black, The Leftovers, The Shield (208)
Are CGI Apes fun? Why can’t Arwen chop down a tree? Is Vic Mackie getting soft?
Today in Tech History – July 16, 2014
In 1945 – The United States detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. The Trinity test ushered in the atomic age.
In 1951 – VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia.
In 1969 – Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
In 1995 – Amazon.com opened for business selling books online. Shipments were packed into boxes from a desk made out of a spare door in a two-car garage in Bellevue, Washington.
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