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Today in Tech History – September 16, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 16th, 2017

1890 – Louis Le Prince boarded a train to Paris at Dijon station. Neither he nor his bags ever arrived and his disappearance was never solved. In 188 he had patented a system for taking 16 pictures a second and playing them back as a moving picture.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128020048/http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/local_heroes/biogs/biogleprince.shtml

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, was introduced at the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York City. One of them caught fire. The demo that was carried live on television did not catch fire.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZYurhbUh_2gC&pg=PA61&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

1985 – Steve Jobs spent his last day as an employee of Apple after submitting his resignation to the board.

http://gizmodo.com/5639822/25-years-ago-today-steve-jobs-left-apple

1997 – After purchasing NeXT the previous December, bringing Steve Jobs back to the company, the Apple Board named Jobs as interim CEO, replacing Gil Amelio.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/today-in-history-steve-jobs-returns-to-apple/

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DTNS 3117 – The Ryzen tide raises all threads

Daily Tech News Show / September 15th, 2017

Patrick gives us the lowdown on what processors to put in our PCs, Google declatres a kind of war on autoplay and Facebook opens a 4th front for AI research in Montreal.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton, and Len Peralta.

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News You Should Know
- (02:35) Unified autoplay | Chromium Blog
- (06:00) Facebook’s New Lab Bolsters Montreal’s…AI | Fast Company
- (10:05) Google in talks to invest in Lyft | Axios
  - Alphabet Considers…Investment of…$1 Billion | Bloomberg
- (12:35) China’s Southeast Asia obsession continues… | Tech In Asia
- (16:15) Amazon waves goodbye to…one-click… | engadget
Discussion
- (19:10) PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard | PC Perspective
Messages of the Day
- (30:10) Matt Bertolini – Equifax software patch process
- (31:30) Anonymous – Equifax downsizing
- (32:30) BigJim – Tech In Trade
- (33:30) Rob – Apple two-factor authentication
- (34:25) Matt Stevens – Managing older iOS devices
Today’s Contributors
- Watch Patrick Norton‘s TekThing on Hak5 and support it on Patreon
- Len Peralta’s “FaceID Not Working“

Today in Tech History – September 15, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 15th, 2017

1947 – The Association for Computing Machinery was founded as the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, during a meeting at Columbia University in New York. It developed into the world’s largest organization of computer professionals.

http://www.acm.org/about/history

1947 – RCA released the 12AX7 vacuum tube for public sale. The miniature dual triode vacuum tube with high voltage gain became popular with tube amplifier enthusiasts and has been in continuous production since. The tube is also known as the ECC83 in the European Union.
http://www.effectrode.com/signal-tubes/12ax7-tube-cornerstone-guitar-tone/

2008 – Electronics retailer Best Buy acquired the Napster music service for $121 million, preventing the once dominating music-sharing service from going out of business.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/best-buy-bails-out-failing-napster/

2014 – Microsoft announced they would purchase Mojang, makers of the Minecraft universe. Mojang’s founders, Notch, Carl, and Jakob, announced they would leave the company.

https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

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Daily Tech Headlines – September 15, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 15th, 2017

Mr. Kaspersky goes to Washington, Google sued for gender discrimination, and Daimler brings electric trucks to the US

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DTNS 3116 – What You Should Do About Equifax

Daily Tech News Show / September 14th, 2017

Liverpool embraces digital currency, YouTube faces backlash on censorship, and what you need to do about Equifax.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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News You Should Know
- (01:20) October 4th is new Pixel day… | Android Police
  - LG-Made Google Pixel XL 2 Hits FCC! | Droid-Life
- (02:35) Snapchat adds 3D Bitmoji to its [AR] features | engadget
- (04:20) YouTube Pulls North Korean State TV Videos | WSJ
  - Youtube…Bans Award-Winning Animated Short | Cartoon Brew
- (08:05) Face ID will have a quick-disable feature | circuit breaker
- (10:00) The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks | BBC
Discussion
- (15:15) What to do about Equifax | DTNS Patreon
  - …two-month-old bug led to massive…breach | Ars Technica
  - Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data! | Krebs on Security
  - FTC probes Equifax; top Democrat likens it to Enron | Reuters
  - Equifax blames breach on a server flaw… | engadget
  - Equifax CEO to testify to Congress… | Reuters
  - How to freeze your credit after a data breach | The Verge
  - Recovering from Identity Theft | FTC
  - Credit Freeze FAQs | FTC
  - Cybersecurity Incident & …Consumer Information | Equifax
  - Equifax waives credit freeze fees… | engadget
  - Report identity theft and get a recovery plan | FTC
Messages of the Day
- (30:40) Neil – App Store removal from iTunes
- (33:15) Petie – Google Authenticator
Today’s Contributors
- Justin Robert Young

#305 – Major in Martin Studies!

Shows/ Sword and Laser / September 14th, 2017

The Martin Studies International Network will help you study Westeros better, Scott Lynch gives hope for the next Locke Lamora book and sadly, we lose a great one in Jerry Pournelle,

Daily Tech Headlines – September 14, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / September 14th, 2017

Google announces a phone event, Equifax announces what caused its breach and Snapchat announces 3D cartoon versions of you.

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Today in Tech History – September 14, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 14th, 2017

1959 – After 33.5 hours of flight, Luna 2 became the first human-made object to strike the moon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions/luna_2

2000 – Microsoft released Windows ME. The ME stood for Millenium Edition but deserving or not, would eventually become code for a bad or unnecessary OS update.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-245728.html

2001 – The Nintendo GameCube went on sale in Japan. It was the first Nintendo game console that did not use cartridges.

http://cube.gamespy.com/articles/500/500516p1.html

2015 – The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves of two merging black holes. It was the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/scientists-spot-the-gravity-waves-that-flex-the-universe/

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DTNS 3115 – Watts Up with Power Grid Security

Daily Tech News Show / September 13th, 2017

A burger-flipping robot and the truth behind power grid concerns.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Bob Schultz.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 186

Cordkillers / September 13th, 2017

Rick and Morty (307), Preacher (209-211), Firefly (Jaynestown), Winter Movie Draft.

01:01 – Winter Movie Draft. The draft is next week! Here’s the movie list.
06:38 – Rick and Morty (307)
12:14 – Preacher (209-211)
18:13 – Firefly (Jaynestown)

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