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Welcome Tech News Facebook still in the news Facebook/Google storing data Self-driving cars Sports News MLB -Opening Day! March Madness - UConn upset in Women's bracket! NFL - When a catch is a catch? NHL -Goalie Madness Placing Bets March Madness -Who will win it all? Big Topic Bad Actors! Kong Take Gina Take This week/day in tech history 3/24/1959: TI gives the first demo of the integrated circuit. It was created to prove resistors and capacitors could exist on the same device. 3/30/1951: Census Bureau recieves the 1st UNIVAC World Backup Day! March is Women’s history month! Jean E. Sammet: Made one of the first programming languages (FORMAC was the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions). Final Word

Welcome Tech News Facebook in news again! Google paying to true up employees Sports News March Madness update Tiger is back and so are golf fans Placing Bets Dell Match Play winner Big Topic AI bias This week/day in tech history 3/21/2006 @jack sends the 1st tweet. When did you join? (Gina 7/2007) 3/25/1995 1st wiki created wiki wiki web 3/22/1993 Intel begins shipping the Pentium chip March is Women’s history month! Donna Dubinsky was the co-founder and CEO of Palm (and Handspring and Numenta). Final Word

Welcome Tech News Professor Stephen Hawking passes away on Pi Day Theranos charged with fraud YouTube & Wikipedia Sports News March Madness - A&M, Nevada, FSU all in NFL free agent signings (our Cousins bet is done) Bruins are hanging in there. Placing Bets March Madness Tourney Bracket & Who’s alma mater will go further in the tourney? Big Topic MIT’s list of seven techs remaking the world This week/day in tech history March 14, 1955: AT&T Bell Labs announced the TRADIC (for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistorized Airborne DIgital Computer) the first transistorized computer. March 11, 1986: The 1st NFL replay system is introduced. March 13, 1986: Microsoft goes public March 12, 1989: The first architecture for the WWW is introduced by Tim Berners Lee. March is Women’s history month! Radia Perlman invented the algorithm behind STP (spanning tree protocol) Final Word

Welcome Tech News Mini-Satellites in space Chinese satellite falling but where Facebook Stream 25 afternoon MLB games Sports News March Madness is coming NFL News NCAA $1B NBA Placing Bets How many games will the Browns win? Big Topic Rise and fall of tech constructs - what really matters? This week/day in tech history March 4, 1956 - An Wang Sells core memory patent to IBM March 5, 1995 - Yahoo! officially launches March 9 1999 - AL Gore invents the internet March is Women’s history month! Grace Hopper. Responsible for starting UNIVAC, COBOL. 1st bug "Admiral Hopper believed that the major obstacle to computers in non-scientific and business applications was the dearth of programmers for these far from user-friendly new machines. The key to opening up new worlds to computing, she knew, was the development and refinement of programming languages - languages that could be understood and used by people who were neither mathematicians nor computer experts. It took several years for her

Welcome Tech News IPO fun Sports News Olympic Update - Final update NBA -Gina's game adventure College Basketball NFL -What a catch!?! Placing Bets Where will Kirk go? Big Topic Containers, are they the new virtualization? This week/day in tech history 3/1/1960: Lisp Programming Manual published 2/26/1991: 1st web browser released. It was called WorldWideWeb, keeping the tradition of bad product names alive. March is Women’s history month! Ada Lovelace was there from the beginning, programming and documenting Charles Babbage’s analytical engine (first computer). Final Word

Welcome Tech News Bad behavior/cross-podcast talk Sports News Olympic Update - US going for Gold in Curling/Women's Hockey NBA -Gina going to Warriors game Everything else Placing Bets Olympic Edition -will we be talking about curling a year from now? Big Topic Odds & Ends! This week/day in tech history 2/20/1962:  Glynn Orbits the earth 3 times, with the assistance of NASA’s IBM 7030 Stretch Supercomputer 2/19/1971: FBI issues 1st computer search warrant. 2/22/1999: The 1st Internet Bank of Indiana opened, 1st all online bank Sources: http://thisdayintechhistory.com/ http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/ Final Word

Welcome Tech News More Hacking Dell sells Mozy Sports News Super Bowl Recap MLB -Pitchers & Catchers reporting Olympics Placing Bets Olympic Edition Big Topic "new-to" tech community people in established communities This week/day in tech history 2/13/1980: Apple Incorporated 2/14/1924: birth of IBM 2/14/1946: ENIAC unveiled Black History Month: Marie Van Britton Brown invented the first home security system with her husband. Lonnie G Johnson worked on the JTEC - johnson thermoelectric energy converter. It turns heat into electrical energy by compressing and expanding hydrogen gas. He also invented the super soaker!  

Welcome Tech News  Companies still taking tax hits Sports News Super Bowl Snacks NBA Super Teams Hockey watching MLB Free Agency Placing Bets Superbowl Ads! Big Topic IT RANTS PART DEUX!! This week/day in tech history 2/3/1986 -Vaporware: According to Computerhistory.org, Time Magazine used the term “vaporware” to talk about the delays Microsoft had delivering Windows. Interestingly, the term was created by a Microsoft engineer in 82, when he responded to a reporter’s question about MFST continuing to develop Xenith, an OS that depended on Open Source software. He said “basically, it’s vaporware”. Black History Month Mark E Dean, IBM Fellow, helped invent the PC (holds 3 of the original 9 IBM patents). Linked article (looks to have been written around 2000) calls him an IBM “idea man”, and his pet project was an electronic tablet. Shirley Ann Jackson, current President of Rensselaer Polytechnic University, worked at Bell Labs early in her career, where her research helped develop caller

Welcome Tech News  Companies taking tax hits Turning over your code Sports News All-Star Games NHL -Not doing good College Basketball  MLB Hall of Fame Placing Bets Superbowl Winner! Big Topic Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, oh my!! This week/day in tech history 2/1/91: Sun starts Java 1/28/86: Challenger exploded 1/27/83: Lotus 123 released Last word

Welcome Tech News Apple bringing money home and giving it out Sports News NFL News -Playoff Crazy NHL -Who actually watched? Placing Bets Superbowl matchup Big Topic 2018 IT Predictions Year to date IT rants This week/day in tech history 1/14/1878: Edison demo’d telephone for Queen Victoria https://books.google.com/books?id=EqgFnAZEPhgC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=january+14+1878+Bell+Queen&source=bl&ots=mPKok_L6Wk&sig=SZ49ClI0TVRvZbfRrIvPniwEtZM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OQxZULiHLOeLiwLA3YGQCA#v=onepage&q=january%2014%201878%20Bell%20Queen&f=false 1/18/1903: 1st telegraph sent https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/education/upload/Marconi.pdf 1/16/1983: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) met for the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force 1/18/95: yahoo.com registered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo! Last word

Welcome Tech News More Uber fun Sports News College Football -National Championship Recap NFL News -Playoffs & New Raiders coach NHL -We all need to watch more Placing Bets Update on Amazon picks Big Topic CES, power outages, smart toilets and more This week/day in tech history 1/9/2009: 1st v of bitcoin released https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html 1/11/2005: iPod Shuffle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle 1/10/96: T83 graphing calculator https://dayintechhistory.com/dith/january-10-1996-ti-83-graphing-calculator/ 1/6/1999: XBOX https://dayintechhistory.com/dith/january-6-2001-xbox-unveiled/ 1/5/84: GNU project founded https://dayintechhistory.com/dith/january-5-1984-gnu-project-founded/ Thanks for listening

Welcome The News Tech News Blockchain shenanigans Apple & batteries Sports News College Football -Good, Bad, & Ugly NFL News -Playoffs NHL -Gina telling us we need to watch more of it Placing Bets Super Bowl College Football Champion Big Topic Chip Flaws -Meltdown & Specter This week/day in tech history 1/1 1939: HP founded 1983: IP/TCIP replaced Network Control Protocol on Arpanet 1985: 1st domain name registered "http://NORDU.net " http://www.tommerritt.com/2018/01/01/today-in-tech-history-january-1-2018/ https://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_tcpip.htm Closing

Welcome The News Tech News AWS: Re-Invent -Kong's report Sports News College Football -Coaching carousel NFL News -Eli benched More Tech Working at Lyft Placing Bets Who makes college football playoffs? Big Topic STACK WARS!!!! This week/day in tech history 11/29/72: Pong is released 11/30/59: IBM 7090 Mainframes are released https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4443083/IBM-delivers-7090-mainframe-computers--November-30--1959 Closing

Welcome The News Tech News Net Neutrality Uber Data Breach Sports News College Football Rivalry Week NFL News More Tech AWS: Reinvent Placing Bets Amazon HQ2 Location Big Topic Based on the 7 deadly sins, what are the main ones you feel we see in tech? This week/day in tech history 11/21 - birth of the internet http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/21/the-birth-of-the-internet/ Closing