Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Why Apple and Google are bigger than Coke, NSA maps your social graph, PS4 beating Xbox, and more.
Guest: Ryan Shrout
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Running time: 45:53
Yesterday I flew from LA to San Francisco to do This Week in Tech from the studio in Petaluma. It was an amazing episode with Molly Wood, Natali DelConte, Jason Howell and Justin Robert Young. After the show I flew right back to LA. I took some video along the way. Here’s my day yesterday coimpressed into one hour.
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In 1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
In 1954 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Groton, CT.
In 1980 – Xerox published the Version 1.0 specifications for Ethernet in conjunction with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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In 1920 – The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh ran an advertisement in the Pittsburgh Sun, describing wireless Victrola music being picked up by radio. Amateur Wireless Sets were on sale for $10.
In 1954 – CERN officially came into being. In addition to countless advancements in science, it would go on to foster the invention of the World Wide Web.
In 1994 – Programmers first demonstrated the HotJava prototype browser to executives at Sun Microsystems Inc. It was an attempt to port the Java language to the Web. It worked.
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In 1998 – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer passed Netscape Navigator as the Web browser with the greatest market share, according to a report from the International Data Corporation.
In 2008 – SpaceX launched the Falcon 1, first ever private spacecraft to enter orbit.
In 2011 – Amazon shook up the tablet market, announcing the the Amazon Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet for $199.
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So seriously, Roger got married, so we talk a lot about getting married. And then we review Agents of SHIELD. Which Roger is disappointed in, but he likes Sleepy Hollow and we finish with some other shows.
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It’s a show of discovery, innovation and ranting. We discover some old ways are best for coffee shops and innovate a new method of eyebrow. Eyebrowing? Just listen. Also, Molly gets off a good old fashioned Molly rant. Thanks Apple! Plus, we figure out how to deal with twerking. Don’t miss this one people!
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BROWS THAT WOW: NYFW BEAUTY TREND – STRONG EYEBROWS
The Rise Of The Multi-Roaster Coffeehouse
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Steam drops the third shoe, Microsoft might steal Ford’s chief, Evernote’s thunder, and more.
Guests: Sean Hollister and Len Peralta
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Running time: 57:42
In 1922 – Scientists at the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory near Washington, D.C., demonstrated radar by showing that if a ship passed through a radio wave broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected.
In 1983 – Richard Stallman announced the GNU project which aimed at the time to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
In 1996 – Kevin Mitnick was indicted on charges he broke into the systems of major software companies, then transferred stolen material to computers at USC via the Internet. Seems prosaic today, but was unheard of at the time.
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
eBay buys more customers for Paypal, US Senators fight NSA surveillance, Netflix type service that’s just for kids, and more.
Guest: Loyd Case
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Running time: 47:08
