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February 6, 2012
Tech News Today 431: Does X=TED?
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Verizon and Redbox joined at the kiosk, Amazon opening a retail store? Your deleted Facebook photos are not deleted, and more.
Guest: Peter Ha
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Running time: 47:18
Tech History Today – Feb. 7
In 1817 – The first public gas street light in the U.S. was lit in Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Market and Lemon streets.
In 1915 – The first completely successful tests of the wireless telephone from a moving train were conducted on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad when spoken messages were clearly heard twenty six miles from Lounsberry to Binghamton, NY.
In 1984 – The first untethered spacewalks were made by Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart
February 5, 2012
Tech History Today – Feb. 6
In 1957 – MIT introduced the cryotron, the first practical demonstration of superconductivity, invented by Dudley Allen Buck. The Cryotron paved the way for the intergrated circuit which used semiconductivity.
In 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed a patent for miniaturized electronic circuits, the first patent for what we now call integrated circuits.
In 1971 – Apollo 14's Lunar Module lifted off from the moon returning astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell to the Command Module. Shepard had made extra history by becoming the first human to hit a golf ball on the moon.
February 4, 2012
Tech History Today – Feb 5
In 1850, the first U.S. patent for push-key operation of a calculating machine was issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, N.Y.
In 1974, the U.S. space probe Mariner 10 returned the first close-up images of Venus and became the first spacecraft to use a gravity assist from one planet to help it reach another.
In 1999: The first Victoria's Secret online fashion show became the first major webcast, attracting an estimated 1.5 million viewers worldwide. Proving even back then the Internet is for shopping.
Tech News Today 430: Preloaded With Love
Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Anonymous is listening to the FBI, Panasonic and Sharp are hurting, watch those Xooms, and more.
Guest: Darren Kitchen and Stephen Johnson
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Running time: 57:10
February 3, 2012
Tech History Today – Feb. 4
In 1890, Thomas Edison received a patent for the first quadruplex telegraph, which could send two messages simultaneously in each direction. One message consisted of an electric signal of varying strength, while the second was a signal of varying polarity.
In 1998 Noël Godin, a Belgian who made a practice of pieing rich and famous people struck a pie against the face of Bill Gates. Gates did not press charges.
In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg and a few other guys at Harvard launch TheFacebook so Harvard students can look up and hook up with each other. Theyw ould eventually expand the service to the world. And drop the "the".
February 2, 2012
Tech History Today – Feb. 3
In 1879, the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb was demonstrated to an 700 people by Joseph Wilson Swan at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 1966, the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed safely on the moon in the Ocean of Storms. It was the first lunar soft landing and first transmission of photographic data from the Moon to Earth.
In 2011 The Number Resource Organization announced that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses was fully depleted. The IANA allocated the last of the blocks equally between the five Regional Internet Registries.
Tech News Today 429: 57% Zuck
Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Sony's in the red, Google got itself a Bouncer, the Facebook fallout, AMD's new strategy, and more.
Guest: MG Siegler and Fr. Robert Ballecer
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Running time: 54:42
Tech News Today 428: Friend Facebook Financially
Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Facebook files for IPO, Sony's new CEO has his work cut out for him, Microsoft and Google are mudslinging, and more.
Guest: Shannon Morse
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Running time: 52:35
Tech History Today – February 2
Hello I'm Tom Merritt with a look at what happened in Tech History Today on February 2nd
In 1046: English monks recorded "no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was." They're analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.
In 1931, Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.
In 1935: Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.
Come back tomorrow for more history.
