Hot Pie has a bakery! Ready Player One has a trailer! The Rook has a TV show! This episode has a final word on butterscotch! And the man in black has a gunslinger following him!
Daily Tech Headlines – August 3, 2017
HBO attack compromised some employee info, Facebook tweaks hoax detection, Uber Freight tweaks service for better driver matching.
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Today in Tech History – August 3, 2017
1811 – Elisha Otis was born. He invented a safety brake that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. Thank him every time you get in an elevator.
http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/E-5.htm
1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus became the first watercraft to reach the geographic North Pole. Commanding Officer, Commander William R. Anderson, announced to his crew, “For the world, our country, and the Navy – the North Pole.”
http://www.ussnautilus.org/nautilus/index.shtml
1977 – Tandy Corp of Texas held a New York press conference to announce that it would manufacture the TRS-80.
1995 – John Romero released the first screenshots of Quake on the Internet. They were 320 x 200 TIFFs.
http://rome.ro/news/2016/6/22/happy-20th-birthday-quake
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DTNS 3086 – Diminishing Results Management
IBM makes a 300 TB tape drive, Amazon Echo gets hacked to listen to everything and filmmaker Jon Schiefer tells us his views on DRM, crowdfunding and more.
With Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson and Jon Schiefer.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 181
Rick and Morty (301-302), Preacher (206), Game of Thrones (703), Firefly – Bushwhacked, Summer Movie Draft. With special guest Chris Cox.
01:09 – Summer Movie Draft
04:02 – Rick and Morty (301-302)
10:07 – Preacher (206)
14:58 – Game of Thrones (703)
26:36 – Firefly – Bushwhacked
Daily Tech Headlines – August 1, 2017
Apple earnings look pleasing to investors, Hyperloop One sets a speed record and Firefox has new test features.
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Today in Tech History – August 2, 2017
1870 – The world’s first underground tube railway, (the Met had been the first underground non-tube railway) Tower Subway, opened in London, running from Lower Thames street to Vine Street. It closed after 4 months of operation.
http://books.google.com/books?id=UgcHBtYPYy0C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false
1880 – Parliament officially adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the official time of Great Britain.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/gmt.htm
1902 – Mina Spiegel Rees was born in Ohio and became one of the earliest female computer pioneers. She ran the Office of Naval Research, where she organized work on early computers like the Harvard Mark I.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Rees.html
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DTNS 3085 – AR You Not Entertained?
Our experiences with Augmented Reality plus updates and clarifications on the Bitcoin fork.
With Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja and Rob Reid.
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Daily Tech Headlines – 8/1/2017
Facebook acquires AI startup, Ad Block shows up in Chrome Canary and Amazon drops Blu products.
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Today in Tech History – August 1, 2017
1873 – Andrew Smith Hallidie took his San Francisco cable car for its first test run. The tracks ran from Clay and Kearny Streets for 2800 feet to a hill 307 feet above.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blstreetcars.htm
1967 – The US Navy recalled Captain Grace Murray Hopper to active duty to help develop the programming language COBOL.
http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=3556
1981 – MTV began broadcasting in the United States, playing The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” and changing how we view music forever.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/xavierstagecoach/mtv-is-30-what-are-the-first-5-videos-they-played-3upv
2013 – Motorola announced the Moto X Android phone with multiple customization options. It was the first phone designed entirely after Google bought Motorola.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4578890/this-is-the-moto-x
2014 – Apple officially acquired Beats Electronics making Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Apple employees.
http://recode.net/2014/08/01/apples-3-billion-beats-purchase-now-apparently-a-done-deal/
2016 – Japan’s NHK began the first regular TV satellite broadcasts in 8K resolution from 10 AM to 5 PM. Viewing stations around Japan were set up to view the broadcasts as no 8K TVs were on the market.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/2/12349954/8k-broadcasts-start-japan-nhk
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