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DTNS 3089 – Netflix Opens A Can of Kick-Ass

Daily Tech News Show / August 7th, 2017

AI improves sleep tests, innovation slowly arrives for breast pumps and the latest on the arrest of Marcus Hutchins, AKA malwaretech. Plus a listener asks a tough question about self-driving cars and organ donations.
With Veronica Belmont, Roger Chang, and Tom Merritt

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 7, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 7th, 2017

Netflix acquires a comic book publisher, a Google engineer kicks off a diversity argument, and Amazon re-lists Blu phones.

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Today in Tech History – August 7, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 7th, 2017

1944 – IBM officially presented the Mark I computer, also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, to Harvard. The computer produced reliable results and ran continuously.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/markI/markI_chronology5.html

1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering released Japan’s first commercially produced transistor radio, the TR-55, sold under the company’s new name, Sony.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0807/

1966 – Jimmy Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He grew up to co-found Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales

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DFP #43 – Twin Peaks: The Return Part 13

Damn Fine Podcast/ Shows / August 7th, 2017

You know, we’re starting to get the feeling that David Lynch and Mark Frost are just screwing with us now. Even if they are, we’re loving it, even at the Roadhouse. Corinna Bechko joins us in our jaw dropping reactions to the latest from Twin Peaks.

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Today in Tech History – August 6, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 6th, 2017

1943 – Jon Postel was born in Altadena, California. He created the Internet’s address system, and administered it for 30 years as director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-and-awards/awards/postel-service-award/ten-year-tribute-jon-postel

1963 – Skilled hacker, future government prisoner, and eventual famous security expert Kevin Mitnick was born in Van Nuys, California.

http://www.nndb.com/people/448/000022382/

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of his WorldWideWeb Project to alt.hypertext and pointed to a simple browser and a Web page describing the project. Thus the WWW became a publicly available service on the Internet.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ

1997 – At MacWorld in Boston, Microsoft announced it would invest $150 million in Apple, and continue to make Microsoft Office for Mac for at least five years. The two companies also ended their lawsuit.

https://news.microsoft.com/1997/08/06/microsoft-and-apple-affirm-commitment-to-build-next-generation-software-for-macintosh/

2014 – The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe became the first spacecraft to maneuver alongside a speeding body as it caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28659783

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Today in Tech History – August 5, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 5th, 2017

1858 – The west end of the first transatlantic cable was completed when the ship Niagara anchored at the Newfoundland coast having laid 1,016 miles of telegraph cable.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed

1914 – The American Traffic Signal Co. installed their first electric traffic light at East 105th street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

http://allthingsclevelandohio.blogspot.com/2008/03/cleveland-birthplace-of-first-electric.html

1921 – The first radio broadcast of a baseball game happened on KDKA from Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field. Harold W. Arlin announced the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies.

http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/Recommendations/KDKAFirst1921.htm

2011 – The Juno space probe launched on a mission to explore Jupiter.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/overview/index.html

2012 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as the Curiosity Rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars in one of the most complicated automated landings ever, involving a sky crane.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mars-curiosity-rover-lands-successfully-mars/story?id=16934302#.UeHYyz54Zvg

2014 – Justin.TV announced its closure. It had started as a lifecasting channel for Justin Kan and spawned the massively successful Twitch video game streaming channel.

http://gigaom.com/2014/08/05/live-streaming-pioneer-justin-tv-shuts-down-as-company-focuses-on-twitch/

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DTNS 3088 – Left To Their Phone Devices

Daily Tech News Show / August 4th, 2017

Great news for hearing aid tech, not so great news for teens and smart phones.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Len Peralta.

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News You Should Know
- (02:00) Hutchins arraigned for creating & distributing Kronos banking Trojan
- (02:40) Spotify coming to XBox One
More Top Stories
Discussion
- (14:10) Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – the Atlantic
Message of the Day
- (03:15) Robert – Apple ‘scrambling’

Len Peralta’s “The iGen”

Daily Tech Headlines – August 4, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 4th, 2017

Security researcher malwaretech arrested, Facebook improves machine translation and China conducts website removal drills.

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Today in Tech History – August 4, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 4th, 2017

1921 – The first facsimile was transmitted by radio across the Atlantic Ocean using the Belinograph invented by Edouard Belin. A message written by C. V. Van Anda, managing editor of The New York Times and addressed to the Matin in Paris, was sent in seven minutes.

http://todayinsci.com/B/Belin_Edouard/Belinogram1921-NYT.htm

1988 – A computer halted an engine test in preparation for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. The flight would be the first since the Challenger explosion in 1986.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/August/4/

2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spaceship launched on its mission to survey the Martian Arctic in search of water, geological discoveries, and evidence of conditions for biological life.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/launch/index.html

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DTNS 3087 – Ransomware Savior Arrested

Daily Tech News Show / August 3rd, 2017

The man who stopped the WannaCry arrested arrested on accusations of building a banking trojan, how to USB charge safely, and Facebook’s fight against falsity.

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