Matthew Isaac Sobin tells how his desire to write a beautiful story about the solar system, and how the aggressive encouragement of a friend led to the story of Jonathan, the Last Machine in the Solar System.
DTNS 3013 – Does this smell anti-trust-y to you?
Google, the biggest ad company on the planet, wants to block ads in its Chrome browser, plus a squeezable phone and using sound to dry your clothes.
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Daily Tech Headlines – April 20, 2017
Chrome might get an ad blocker, Facebook wants to read your brain, and Microsoft replaces Wunderlist.
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DFP #23 – Slaves and Masters
A big episode, directed by Diane Keaton, brings a special guest with John Thorne of Wrapped In Plastic. Just how Twin Peaks can Twin Peaks get?
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Today in Tech History – April 20, 2017
1926 – Sam Warner approved the sound-on-disc system created by Western Electric and created the Vitaphone company to develop the process to add sound to film.
1940 – Vladimir Zworykin and his team from RCA demonstrated the first electron microscope. It measured 10 feet high and weighed half a ton, achieving a magnification of 100,000x.
1964 – The first AT&T picturephone transcontinental call was made between test displays at Disneyland and the New York World’s Fair.
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DTNS 3012 – Nintentional Scarcity
China’s Baidu’s move to capture the self-driving car market, Alphabet’s move to use data to discover ways to stop people getting sick, plus our picks for to-do management.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 166
Summer Movie Draft, Better Call Saul (301), The Leftovers (301), The Expanse (212), Justified (601). With special guest C. Robert Cargill.
01:38 – Summer Movie Draft
12:25 – Justified (601)
17:08 – The Expanse (212)
26:54 – Better Call Saul (301)
32:14 – The Leftovers (301)
Daily Tech Headlines – April 19, 2017
Facebook’s announcements from F8, Microsoft offers password-free login, Baidu opens up autonomous car platform.
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Today in Tech History – April 19, 2017
1947 – A report appeared in Billboard magazine of the first public demonstration of the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar lens. The National Broadcasting Company in New York City conducted the demo and the zoom lens soon became standard TV equipment.
1957 – The first non-test FORTRAN program was compiled and run by Herbert Bright, manager of the data processing center at Westinghouse. It produced a missing comma diagnostic. Once fixed, a successful attempt followed.
1965 – “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” by Gordon Moore was published in Electronics. Moore projected that over the next ten years the number of components per chip would double every 12 months. By 1975 he turned out to be right, and the doubling became immortalized as “Moore’s law.”
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DTNS 3011 – A F8-ful Day
Why AR is the future of Facebook, Gurman-class iPhone rumors and esports goes Olympic-ish.
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