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Today in Tech History – December 29, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 29th, 2017

1949 – TV station KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

http://schoollibrary.org/articles/KC2XAK

1952 – The first hearing aid using a junction transistor went on sale, the model 1010 was manufactured by the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, New York, US.

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Transistor%20(Body)/Sonotone/info/sonotone1010.htm

1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a talk called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, in which he suggested it should be possible to make nanoscale machines that can arrange atoms the way we want.
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 29, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 29th, 2017

Softbank buys a chunk of Uber, Apple apologies for battery issues, and Steve Jobs is now a company.

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DTNS 3188 – Predictions Results

Daily Tech News Show / December 28th, 2017

We look back on our predictions from last year (and in one case a little longer) and see how we did!

With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Shannon Morse, Patrick Beja, Len Peralta and Scott Johnson.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 28, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 28th, 2017

Instagram puts recommended content in the Home feed, Snapchat works on Stories EVERYWHERE, and Apple Lisa source code is coming.

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Today in Tech History – December 28, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 28th, 2017

1886 – Josephine Garis Cochrane of Shelbyville, Illinois received the first US patent for a commercially successful dishwasher. Dishes fit in compartments in a wheel that turned inside a copper boiler. Her company eventually became KitchenAid.

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-62.jsp

1895 – The first commercial presentation of the famous Lumière Cinématographe took place at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris. Invited payees got to see ten films.

http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm

1969 – In Helsinki, Finland Nils and Anna Torvalds gave birth to their son Linus. He would start out dabbling on his grandfather’s Commodore Vic-20 and end up developing the open source Linux operating system.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600294/Linus-Torvalds

2005 – The European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint launched GIOVE-A the first test-bed satellite for the Galileo geo-location system.

http://www.esa.int/esaNA/SEMFZZ1VW3H_index_0.html

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DTNS 3187a – Listener Co-Host Show

Daily Tech News Show / December 27th, 2017

Three listeners join us to talk about they they like tech.

With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, John, Matthew, Paul, and Roger Chang.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 27, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / December 27th, 2017

Amazon wants to expand advertising, Uber in talks to sell leasing business, and the Library of Congress ends its comprehensive Twitter archive.

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Today in Tech History – December 27, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 27th, 2017

1571 – In Well der Stadt, Wurttemberg of the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Kepler was born. His theories like the laws of planetary motion came in handy for Isaac Newton.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/JohannesKepler/

1968 – Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned orbit of the Moon.

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/as08/a08facts.htm

2007 – Warner Music Group became the third major music label to begin selling DRM-free MP3s through Amazon.
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/27/warner-music-group-ditches-drm-on-amazon-mp3-only/

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DTNS 3186 – Retro Show

Daily Tech News Show / December 26th, 2017

It’s the Daily Tech News Cassette for July, 1983 with thoughts on the new TRS-80 Model 4, micro PC versions of the Eliza AI, and whether software piracy is unethical.
With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Jenn Cutter.

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Today in Tech History – December 26, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / December 26th, 2017

1791 – At 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London, England, (we think), Betsy and Benjamin welcomed their son Charles Babbage into the world. He would grow up to make a difference– engine.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/babbage.html

1933 – Edwin Armstrong received a patent for his method of eliminating static in a radio broadcast using frequency modulation. He would license out the technology but many companies would embrace FM radio without his permission and he spent much of his later life battling in court.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=uyFoAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1982 – Time’s January 3rd issue arrived on newsstands with the computer on the cover as Machine of the Year. It was the first non-human to gain the honor since the Man of the Year concept started in 1927 with Charles Lindbergh.
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/This+history+December+1982/9324584/story.html

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