Everything you need to know about the gaming consoles (and hardware in general) for this holiday period.
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1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than 100 years until digital stole its thunder.
http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-44.jsp
1977 – The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-35th-atari-2600-175216071.html http://www.theverge.com/products/atari-2600/1710
1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/10/1014cplusplus-released/all/1
1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the enduser of Linux.
https://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php
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Scott talks about the hardware he’s used and tested to make his art.
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Turn any flat surface into a touch screen, the new Raspberry pi-top and how Google is teaming up with all the retailers to beat Amazon.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.
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Good news and bad news for Samsung, the Dark Web gets darker, and Sony’s projection touch screen.
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1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.
1983 – Bob Barnett, president of Ameritech Mobile communications, called Alexander Graham Bell’s nephew from Chicago’s Soldier Field using a Motorola DynaTAC handset. It marked the launch of the first cellular telephone network in the US.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10064633-94.html
1985 – The first observation of a proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/milestones/interactive-timeline.html
2000 – Tristan Louis suggested sound and video tags be added to the 0.92 spec for RSS feeds. This led to enclosures which allowed media files to be delivered through RSS and paved the way for podcasting.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/syndication/conversations/topics/698
2016 – The PlayStation VR headset began shipping.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/12/13255384/playstation-vr-launch-availability-where-how-to-buy
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That’s right, Sword and Laser has been picking and reading books for 10 years and we’re not even close to stopping. This week we discuss why you don’t need to travel to London to read Theodora Goss but it doesn’t hurt. And why we’re extra excited for Andy Weir’s Artemis.
Huge open source AI collab between Amazon and Microsoft, Disney wins a digital movie war you didn’t know was being fought, and whether social media is threatening democracy.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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The DTNS video feed is not actually run by us, it’s been maintained by a volunteer fan Shawn Wei for it’s entire life which has been most fo the time since we launched in 2014. In all that time Shawn has done an amazing job keeping the feed up and running.
Tuesday we noticed that the feed was not updating and I mentioned it to Shawn on Twitter who promised to look into it. I followed up with him in an email yesterday. Shawn has a day job that was keeping him from getting right on it but he said it was an error in the script that creates the feed and he would get it fixed.
Our apologies for those of you who rely on this feed for the video version of the podcast. I’ve contacted Shawn again this morning and raised the idea of transferring the feed over to us so we can help fix things like this.
Shawn has been amazing and it’s to his credit that most of you haven’t even noticed this was a fan-run feed for so many years.
Apologies again for the disruption.
Tom
Oculus headsets go wireless, Google disables a Home button and Facebook to release details on Russian ads.
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