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January 25, 2013
Tech News Today 677: Vine Faceblocked
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Sarah Lane
Facebook shuts out competitiors, Lenovo wants RIM, Why the Internet is essential.
Guest: Darren Kitchen
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Running time:: 0:45:18
January 24, 2013
Tech History Today – Jan. 25
In 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company in agreement with the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd.. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China and several other Asian countries.
In 1915 – AT&T inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, Cal. The line had been completed the previous summer too early for the Panama Pacific Exposition.
In 1921 – A play called Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) by Karel Capek debuted at the National Theater in Prague. It was the first appearance of the word robot. Spoiler alert, the robots end up killing all the humans but one.
In 1979 – Robert Williams was killed on the job in a Flat Rock, Michigan, casting plant, becoming the first recorded human death by robot.
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Tech News Today 676: Dell, You Need a Dude
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Why Apple’s record revenue is bad news, Google’s secret wireless project, Twitter’s Instagram for video, and more.
Guest: Danny Sullivan
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Running time:: 0:48:03
January 23, 2013
Tech History Today – Jan. 24
In 1935 – Krueger’s Cream Ale and Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, Virginia in cans, developed by the American Can Company. Cans protected beer better than translucent bottles.
In 1950 – Percy LeBaron Spencer received a patent for a “Method of Treating Foodstuffs” which we would recognise as the Microwave Oven.
In 1984 – The original Macintosh was introduced becoming the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface.
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Tech News Today 675: More Mobile Butter
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Google turns it around, Nokia’s best camera yet, how Steve Jobs used patents as a weapon, and more.
Guest: Natali Morris
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Running time:: 0:41:37
January 22, 2013
Tech History Today – Jan. 23
In 1896 – Wilhelm Roentgen spoke to the Würzburg Physical Medical Society where he demonstrated X-rays by photographing the hand of session chair Dr. Albert von Kolliker, a famous anatomist.
In 1960 – With a crew of two, the bathyscaphe Trieste, descended 10,911 meters in the Pacific Ocean into Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam, the deepest known point in the oceans.
In 2003 – Earth lost communication with space probe Pioneer 10 which was 12 billion-kilometers from Earth.
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S&L Podcast – #119 – Pronounce this…
We have a whole lot of award finalists to tell you about and Veronica bravely tries to pronounce their names. We also wonder how much said is too much said.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Car Men Air Camenere, Chile
Veronica: Something red
QUICK BURNS
TOC: ‘The Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy’ Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Harper/Voyager UK to Release SF/F Classics with Beautiful Minimalist Covers
Tad Williams completes latest novel
Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves
FINALISTS: 2012 BSFA Award
FINALISTS: The 2012 Kitschies
CALENDAR
BARE YOUR SWORD
Veronica’s Reddit AMA
The battle against ‘sexist’ sci-fi and fantasy book covers
Jim Hines Group Cover Pose
Living in a Fantasy world
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
New GAME OF THRONES video
BOOK CHECK-IN
Use of “said”
ADDENDUMS
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Autopilot S2E11 – Max Headroom
Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. It followed the adventures of Edison Carter, reporter for Network 23 and Max Headroom a virutal version of Carter as they struggled against the executives of the netowrk.
Tech News Today 674: Samsung Galaxy S Octo
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Mozilla puts out some phones, AT&T sucks up some spectrum, Steve Ballmer consolidates his power, and more.
Guests: Brian Dunning
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Running time:: 0:44:30
January 21, 2013
Tech History Today – Jan. 22
In 1939 -John Dunning’s Cyclotron split the uranium atom for the first time at Columbia University in New York City. And the Manhattan Project was on.
In 1968 – Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
In 1984 – Apple aired the famous “1984″ commercial for the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott.
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