DTNS 3159 – Compuserve still has forums?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy EA now has the most downvoted Reddit comment of all time, plus wearables might save your heart and you might want to switch to Firefox.
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Daily Tech Headlines – November 14, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Firefox Quantum released, HTC announced standalone headset, Apple Watch can identify high blood pressure.

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Today in Tech History – November 14, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1922 – The BBC sent its first daily transmission from station 2LO at Marconi House London. Arthur Burrows, first Director of Programmes, read the first newscast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1920s.stm

1971 – The American space probe Mariner 9 began orbiting Mars becoming the first spacecraft to successfully orbit another planet.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1971-051A

2007 – The last Direct Current electrical distribution system in the US was shut down by Con Edison in New York.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/off-goes-the-power-current-started-by-thomas-edison/

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DTNS 3158 – Lyft Gets an “Eh?”

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comDid FaceID really get hacked? Plus ESPN brings SportsCenter to Snapchat and Amazon Prime Video might go free to watch.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 13, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500FaceID spoofed, Softbank sinks money into Uber and Lyft comes to Toronto.

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Today in Tech History – November 13, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1851 – The first public message was sent on the submarine telegraph cable under the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais, France.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6nM0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=november+13+1851+submarine+telegraph&source=bl&ots=71yU-Y_Dva&sig=mZmBJzfqw9fKkwaYU-4xVL_v-5k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XZJ6UvetBMGRiAL1noGIBA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=november%2013%201851%20submarine%20telegraph&f=false

1982 – 15-year-old Scott Safran of Cherry Hill, New Jersey set the world record score on Asteroids. His record stood for 27 years, the longest-running high score in videogame history.

https://www.wired.com/2010/04/asteroids-record/

1983 – The MIT TX-0, an experimental transistorized computer, was brought back to life for the last time at The Computer Museum in Marlboro, Massachusetts.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/November/13/

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Today in Tech History – November 12, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1946 – The US Army held a contest between an abacus used by Kiyoshi Matsuzaki from Japan’s postal ministry and an electric calculator operated by Private Thomas Nathan Wood. The abacus won 4 to 1.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/11/1112abacus-beats-calculator/

1970 – The Oregon Highway Divisions made an ill-advised attempt to destroy a dead whale by blowing it up with explosives. The results, documented by local news, eventually became Internet gold as the “exploding whale” video.
http://www.offbeatoregon.com/H001_ExplodWhale.html

1990 – Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for a hypertext project. The proposal referred to a “web of information nodes” and implementing “browsers” The project eventually became the World Wide Web.

http://www.w3.org/Proposal

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Today in Tech History – November 11, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of good ol y=f(x). That is, if you believe what he wrote in his notebooks.
http://books.google.com/books?id=bOIGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=november+11+1675+leibniz&source=bl&ots=U_y9jNxYoF&sig=BIPDX5dry5lv_bLJUXmLTelcDIg&hl=en#v=onepage&q=november%2011%201675%20leibniz&f=false

1930 – Albert Einstein, yes that Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard received a US patent for a refrigerator that required no electricity, just a heat source. Electrolux bought up the patents.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=t0BRAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

2006 – The Sony PS3 went on sale with a built-in Blu-ray player and hard drive.

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/playstation-3-in-akihabara-japan-on-november-11-2006-the-news-photo/110832129#playstation-3-in-akihabara-japan-on-november-11-2006-the-playstation-picture-id110832129

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DTNS 3157 – Spambot Revenge

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUS DoJ tried to crank up the encryption debate again, YouTube tries to crack down on adult videos that look like kids videos, and why one man’s C++ project made him teh target of Russian spies.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Darren Kitchen.

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