Daily Tech Headlines – September 26, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 26th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft announces new Office dates, macOS High Sierra password vulnerability uncovered, Amazon adds Alexa to its music app.

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Today in Tech History – September 26, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1960 – For the first time, a US presidential debate was televised. Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy debated in Chicago and were perceived differently by those who listened on radio versus those who watched on television.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/LYj_UVJ9gEyA5U9buPW8Hg.aspx

1983 – 17-year-old Neal Patrick, of the hacking group 414s testified before the US House of Representatives about computer break-ins and how they might be stopped.

http://books.google.com/books?id=viivLxZ7FxIC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=Neal+Patrick+september+26+1983&source=bl&ots=etD0jMNoJN&sig=Tmz1YJu5DoO93qucBwOCgSo-5Ws&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xCYtUKyzOO_iyAHDr4GgCw&ved=0CF8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Neal%20Patrick%20september%2026%201983&f=false

1991 – Eight people entered Biosphere 2, an airtight replica of the Earth’s biosphere in Oracle, Arizona. They left exactly two years later in 1993. Results of the experiment are still controversial.

http://blogs.britannica.com/2011/09/years-glass-biosphere-2-mission/

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DTNS 3123a – Microsoft Makes a Quantum Leap

Daily Tech News Show / September 25th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comApple swings back to Google from Bing. Is that bad for us all? Plus, touch-sensitive denim jacket launches and Microsoft announces a quantum programming language.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 25, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 25th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft announces quantum computing language, Levi’s touch-sensitive Google jacket arrives, Uber and London start talking.

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Today in Tech History – September 25, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 25th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1956 – The first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1 was inaugurated, replacing slow telegraph and unreliable radio systems.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:The_First_Submarine_Transatlantic_Telephone_Cable_System_(TAT-1),_1956

2001 – Apple announced the release of Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, the first major upgrade to OS X.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/09/25First-Major-Upgrade-to-Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend.html

2012 – Blizzard launched its 4th World of Warcraft expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/mists-of-pandaria-releases-september-25/

2013 – Amazon announced the Kindle HDX tablets with a service called “Mayday” that promised to let users speak with a real person by video over the Internet within 15 seconds of tapping a button.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4767996/amazon-mayday-virtual-genius-bar-kindle-fire-hdx-remote-support

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DTH Sunday History Edition

Daily Tech News Show / September 24th, 2017

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Today in Tech History – September 24, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 24th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1979 – CompuServe began offering a consumer version of its dial-up online information service called MicroNET. The name would later be changed to CompuServe and offer public email among other online services.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/happy-30th-birthday-compuserve/24853

1993 – Broderbund Software released the game Myst, for the Macintosh computer. It became a record-setting bestseller and helped popularize CD-ROM drives.

http://www.giantbomb.com/myst/3030-3970/

1997 – Ultima Online launched, revolutionizing online gaming by supporting thousands of simultaneous players in a persistent shared world.

http://www.uo.com/article/Press-Around-Anniversary

2013 – Valve announced their new Steam OS, a free version of Linux built around the Steam video game service.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/23/4762370/steam-box-os

2014 – The shellshock vulnerability was made public. The way bash handled variables could allow malicious code to be run on computers running Linux and OS X. This meant routers, webcams and other connected devices were also vulnerable.
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-bug-as-big-as-heartbleed.html#.VCRaXildXA4

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An update on Daily Tech Headlines for Amazon Echo – Still Down

Daily Tech News Show / September 23rd, 2017

Last weekend we changed servers for the script that feeds Daily Tech Headlines to the Amazon Echo. Alex, who wrote the script made the appropriate changes and Dan who runs the server signed off.

However Amazon returned an error saying the feed was not current. As anyone who subscribes to the podcast knows, there is current content, so somehow it wasn’t getting to the new script.

Alexa and Dan found a couple things they thought it might be and tweaked them then resubmitted. Alex even tested the feed to see if it worked and it did on Amazon’s Echo simulator. But we got the same error. By this time it was Wednesday so Thursday Alex submitted a ticket with Amazon asking for them to review and tell us what they saw as wrong since everything looked OK on our end. I also emailed my contact on the Echo team who helped us get set up in the first place.

We have not yet heard back from Amazon. As soon as we do we hope we can figure it out and get Daily Tech Headlines working again. Our deepest apologies for the disruption.

Tom

DTH Saturday History Edition

Daily Tech News Show / September 23rd, 2017

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Today in Tech History – September 23, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 23rd, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/

1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990923.html

1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
http://archive.fortune.com/2009/01/27/news/newsmakers/hastings_netflix.fortune/index.htm

2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/History:Timelines

2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409863,00.asp

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