Daily Tech Headlines – May 24, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 24th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google introduces the Jamboard, Samsung Iris scanning hacked, The Nokia 3310 candy bar phone is back!

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Today in Tech History – May 24, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1844 – Samuel Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought” from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to the Mount Clair train depot in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

1935 – General Electric Co. sold the first spectrophotometer. It could detect two million different shades of color and make a permanent record chart of the results.

1961 – Wes Clark began working on the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC), at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. It was one of the earliest examples of a user-friendly machine that you could communicate with while it operated. It’s credited with setting the standard for personal computer design.

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DTNS 3036 – USB Wait and C

Daily Tech News Show / May 23rd, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comMicrosoft’s new Surface, Pinterest can give you the recipe for a meal based on a picture, and why Europe could replace Silicon Valley.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 23, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 23rd, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Patents must be filed locally in the US, Microsoft introduces the new Surface Pro, and Pinterest can now recognize full meals.

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Today in Tech History – May 23, 2017

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

Today in Tech History logo1825 – William Sturgeon exhibited the electromagnet in a practical form for the first time. The exhibition accompanied the reading of a paper, recorded in the Transactions of the Society of Arts for 1825 (Vol xliii, p.38).

1908 – John Bardeen was born. He grew up to win the Nobel Prize twice, once for inventing the transistor, and once for figuring out superconductivity.

1995 – Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the programming language Java and the accompanying Web browser HotJava at the SunWorld ’95 convention.

2002 – Netflix began selling its stock publicly on the NASDAQ. It rose from it’s initial price, unusual for the time when tech company stocks were generally in poor shape.

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DTNS 3035 – CensorBook

Daily Tech News Show / May 22nd, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comEast Texas’ patent dominance may end, AI and quadcopters help stop poaching in parts of Africa, and where the line between Facebook and Publishers begins and ends.

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 22, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / May 22nd, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Guardian outs Facebook moderation policies, Ford fires its CEO, EU will have antitrust decisions on Google in a few months.

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Today in Tech History – May 22, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 22nd, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1973 – Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center wrote a memo on an IBM selectric typewriter, outlining how to connect personal computers to a shared printer. Metcalfe says “If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day, this was it.”

1980 – Namco released an arcade game called Puck-Man. When it was released in the US in October the name was altered to Pac-Man.

1990 – Microsoft released Windows 3.0. It featured big improvements in interface and multitasking. It’s Control Panel feature caught the eye of Apple which sued, and lost.

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