We talk to Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, the authors that make up James S. A. Corey, about coffee, distilled and fermented beverages and making The Expanse a TV show at BayCon 2017.
Daily Tech Headlines – June 15, 2017
Why spaces make more money than tabs, Line has a duck and a bear for a smart speaker and Amazon’s interested in Slack.
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Today in Tech History – June 15, 2017
1878 – Photographer Eadweard Muybridge used high-speed photography to capture a horse’s motion. The photos showed the horse with all four feet in the air during some parts of its stride. Stop-motion photography was born.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91483062/
1949 – Jay Forrester wrote down a proposal for core memory in his notebook. Core memory was the standard for computer memory until advances in semiconductors in the 1970s.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4375442/Forrester-records-a-proposal-for-core-memory-in-his-notebook–June-15–1949
1987 – Compuserve’s Sandy Trevor and his team, which included inventor Steve Wilhite, released GIF version 87a. The new enhanced format allowed people to create compressed animations. “Under Construction” GIFs everywhere became possible.
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/gif-history-steve-wilhite-olia-lialina-interview/
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DTNS 3052 – High Rent Rocket Real Estate
Facebook improves safety check, a judge sentences people to install Lyft, and renovating old rockets into space stations.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 174
House of Cards (Season 5), Better Call Saul (308), Justified (609), Summer Movie Draft.
01:23 – Summer Movie Draft
05:39 – House of Cards (Season 5)
17:48 – Better Call Saul (308)
23:31 – Justified (609)
Daily Tech Headlines – June 14, 2017
Uber CEO steps away, Uber board member steps down, Microsoft patches Windows XP.
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Today in Tech History – June 14, 2017
1822 – Charles Babbage announced his difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage.html
1951 – The US Census Bureau officially put UNIVAC I into service calling it the world’s first commercial computer.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/
1962 – The European Space Research Organization, which would become the European Space Agency, was established in Paris.
http://www.jaxa.jp/library/space_law/chapter_1/1-2-2-4_e.html
1967 – NASA launched Mariner 5 on its mission to fly by Venus.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1967-060A
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DTNS 3051 – Tom Has A Thought and Patrick Disagrees
The best and worst from E3, plus Uber’s crumbling leadership and Apple’s position on cars.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 13, 2017
Uber troubles, Apple’s into cars, and more.
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Today in Tech History – June 13, 2017
1925 – Charles Jenkins publicly demonstrated synchronized transmission of silhouette pictures and sound, becoming the first person to demonstrate TV in the US.
http://www.bairdtelevision.com/jenkins.html
1941 – John Mauchly visited John Atanasoff to see his computer. The two computer pioneers later battled in court over who was the legal inventor of the electronic digital computer.
http://jva.cs.iastate.edu/mauchlyinames.php
1944 – Germany launched the first guided missile attack in history, sending V-1 rockets into London.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-launch-v-1-rocket-attack-against-britain
1983 – Pioneer 10 became the first human-made object to pass outside Pluto’s orbit and leave the central solar system.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/sso/cool/pioneer10/mission/
2016 – At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple announced it was changing the name of OS X to macOS starting with the next version of the operating system, macOS Sierra.
http://www.businessinsider.com/wwdc-2016-os-x-becomes-macos-2016-6
2016 – Microsoft announced the Xbox One S, a white slimmed down version of the Xbox One, capable of 4K video and Project Scorpio, a beefed up Xbox capable of 4K gameplay.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/xbox-project-scorpio-hardware-specs-can-it-do-4k/
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