DTNS 3162 – No Rest for the Encrypted

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTesla and Wal-mart get trucking, Apple moves farther from Qualcomm, and if you can’t weaken encryption, what’s a law enforcement official to do?
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Daily Tech Headlines – November 17, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook launches Creators app, Tesla announces new electric truck, EA suspends Battlefront II in-app purchases.

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Today in Tech History – November 17, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1790 – August Ferdinand Mobius was born in Schulpforta, Saxony. The mathematician, astronomer and physicist is most well remembered for the discovery of the Mobius strip, a 2-dimensional object with only one side when embedded in 3D space. Poor Johann Benedict Listing also discovered it at the same time but Listing strip just doesn’t have the same ring.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Mobius.html

1947 – Walter Brattain dumped a semiconductor experiment into a thermos of water and unexpectedly saw a large amplification of electricity. Working with John Bardeen they developed it into a new amplifier that would eventually be called the transistor.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/miraclemo.html

1970 – The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/538-Lunokhod-1-Revisited.html

1971 – The Kenbak-1 desktop computer was advertised for sale in ComputerWorld for $750 It had first been advertised in Scientific American in September. The 8-bit computer had 256 bytes of memory and was dubbed the world’s first commercially available personal computer by a panel of experts involving Steve Wozniak.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wCl2yLDv2bAC&pg=PT42&dq=Kenbak-1&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bEPqTsXUG4GwiQKO1sC-BA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Kenbak-1&f=false
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34639183

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DTNS 3161 – Fool Me Once, Shame On You, Fool Me Twice, You’re a Bot

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comA new system to help you decide whether to trust news sources on Facebook and Google and a new system to stop verifying people form Twitter.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 16, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook and Google participating in trusted news program, Amazon Key hack discovered, Twitter pauses verification program and removes some verifications.

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Today in Tech History – November 16, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1904 – Sir John Ambrose Fleming went “scudding down Gower Street” in London on his way to patenting the “oscillation valve” which we fondly call the Vacuum Tube. His patent was later invalidated by the US supreme court, but that didn’t stop Fleming from being Knighted and receiving a medal of honor from the Institute of Radio Engineers.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4401607/Fleming-patents-vacuum-tube–November-16–1904
http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/radio_history/gtnames/fleming.php

1965 – The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus. It would become the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet, though it failed to return data.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-092A

2000 – ICANN announced its decision to include 7 new top-level domains giving birth to the .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and .pro, TLDs.

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/icann-pr-16nov00-en.htm

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DTNS 3160 – 4K is the new 1080p

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comA Hyperloop/Boring Company hybrid planned for Denver, Kickstarter launches a Patreon competitor, and Patrick Norton helps yo wade through the 4K nonsense if you want to buy a new TV.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 15, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Amazon scraps TV bundle plans, Google improves job search results, Tencent has an impressive quarter.

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Today in Tech History – November 15, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1926 – The National Broadcasting Company radio network opened with 24 stations. It was a joint creation of RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse. AT&T provided the spark for the network by selling WEAF to RCA.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/404533/National-Broadcasting-Co-Inc-NBC

1971 – Intel released the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004 with an advertisement in Electronic News, though the chip may have been delivered earlier in the spring to some customers. It was the first complete CPU on one chip.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html

2001 – Microsoft entered the game console war with the first Xbox going on sale in North America. It pitted Microsoft against Sony’s PS2 just three days before Nintendo’s GameCube went on sale.
http://money.cnn.com/2001/11/15/technology/xbox/index.htm

2013 – Sony’s PlayStation 4 game console went on sale with a big event in New York where Sony rented out the entire Standard Hotel.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/14/sony-launches-playstation-4-fans-go-nuts/

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