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Blockbuster 1985 – The first Blockbuster opens it’s doors in Dallas, TX by David Cook. The 29 year old store owner eventually sold it to Scott Beck, John Melk and Wayne Huizenga. Eventually it becomes a nation-wide franchise and online movie and game rental store. Dish Network ultimately purchased Blockbuster for $228 million The Last Blockbuster On April 1st, 2019 (not an April Fools Joke), Bend, OR Blockbuster became the last brick-and-mortar store in the world. This was after the last Australian store closed. They are known on Twitter as @LoneBlockbuster Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can continue the coverage of

Thomas Alva Edison A lot happened on this day that Thomas Edison was responsible for. In 1878, Edison brought electricity into the home. 1879 Edison manufacturers the first incandescent light bulb, which was tested on October 22nd. Two major leaps in the technology ago. But it was on October 18, 1931, Edison died of complications to diabetes in New Jersey. His last breath was captured in a test tube, which is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. 1985– The Nintendo Entertainment System, along with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.) and the Zapper light gun are released in New York. Eighteen games were available, two of which came bundled with the system: Duck Hunt and Super Mario Brothers. The NES was a step up to it’s predecessor – the Famicon Disk system (which looks like a Steampunk version of the NES). Differences included 60-pin cartridges (famicon had 72-pin), case design and extra peripherals, like a 3.5 inch floppy drive. Nintendo Favic

GNC #1399 I’m Back. I must apologize but it has been an eventful two weeks that I talk about during the show. Nothing like an upper respiratory infection and a 104F fever to keep me away from the mic. But I am back and while I missed my 15-year celebration of being a podcaster we will celebrate episode 1400 in Columbus next week. Lot’s to share on the show tonight and me being healthy enough to talk 10 minutes without hacking in your er. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Pickup Ohana Gear. Join the Chat @ GeekNews.Chat (Mastodon) Email Todd or follow him on Facebook. Like and Follow Geek News Central Facebook Page. Download the Audio Show File Support my Show Sponsor: 30% off on New GoDaddy Orders cjcgeek30 $4.99 for a New or Transferred .com cjcgeek99 @ GoDaddy.com $1.00 / mo Economy Hosting with a free domain. Promo Code: cjcgeek1h $1.00 / mo Managed WordPress Hosting with free Domain. Promo Code: cjcgeek1w Become a GNC Insider: Support this podcast Show Notes: NASA spots Insight Mars Lander NASA&

RISC-V, Historic Passwords Revealed, End of the WorldWe’re missing Henry S. Newman this week, who is down in Los Cruces inspecting and overseeing the construction of his new crib. Dan and Shahin discuss just how little they’d want to be the general contractor working to build Henry’s house. Henry would be deploying a set of lasers to make sure that the foundation was true to the nearest 1/64th of an inch and all the while pointing to the contract which contains his exacting requirements. Dan wants to be there in a lawn chair, live blogging the entire process. Open Sourcing the CPU? What Does it Mean and How Does it Work?We have a very special guest today:  Calista Redmond, CEO of upstart RISC-V, the designers of a new open source processor instruction set which is looking to disrupt the entire industry. RISC-V can be used for light weight tasks such as embedded processing but, on the other hand, is also going to be utilized as the system accelerator for the European Exascale initiative boxes. That’s some

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Another daily lineup of the latest tech news, let’s dig in and see what we got! Listen Now We Need You To Join Us Do you love talking about tech, gadget and/or gaming news? So do we! Join the best Facebook group over at http://facebook.com/groups/latestintechnews Article Links: NEST WIFI FIRST LOOK: GOOGLE FINALLY COMBINED A SMART SPEAKER AND A ROUTER Piranha teeth are even more incredible than we thought Yes, there are bots in Fortnite Chapter 2 and they are awful Watch On YouTube Did we miss something on the show? Let us know on Twitter at @technewsgadget! Have news you want to share? Submit it here. Original Article Link: #200 A Look At The Google Nest Wifi

Intel 80386DX released October 17,1985 1985– Intel released the 80386 DX processor. The 275,000 transistor chip was a big jump from the 20 MHz 286. It contained the ability to address up to 4 GB of memory and had a bigger instruction set.  The chip would be released, but most people wouldn’t see the processor until Spring of 1986Interesting enough – the 386 chip was finally discontinued in the Fall of 2007. The chip was used after personal computer days to power many embedded systems. Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can continue the coverage of Gadget tech, music tech, and geek culture through the shows. Texa

Would the docking probe that caused so much difficulty a week ago during the first docking work now or would Shepard and Mitchell be forced into a space walk in Lunar orbit?

Happy Birthday League of Legends! Excited for the upcoming reveals and the 2019 World Championship! Here’s to many more! Listen Now We Need You To Join Us Do you love talking about tech, gadget and/or gaming news? So do we! Join the best Facebook group over at http://facebook.com/groups/latestintechnews Article Links: League of Legends: Mobile may be unveiled at Riot’s 10-year anniversary event 10-Year Anniversary Celebration | Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition – League of Legends Up close with Google’s budget Chromebook, the Pixelbook Go Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia will launch on November 19th These are the games coming to Google Stadia Watch On YouTube Did we miss something on the show? Let us know on Twitter at @technewsgadget! Have news you want to share? Submit it here. Original Article Link: #199 10th Anniversary Celebration of League of Legends

Walt Disney Company – Founded Oct 16, 1923 1923– 90 years ago, Walt and Roy Disney start what is known as the Walt Disney Company. It started as the Disney Brothers Cartoon studio. Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alice’s Wonderland. In 1986, the name was officially changed to the Walt Disney Company. Steve Jobs was a shareholder and board member. Walt Disney Studios is one of the largest in Hollywood with networks ESPN, ABC, A&E and more. Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can continue the coverage of Gadget tech, music tech, and geek culture through the shows. FORTRAN is releasedWal-Mart Sues A

Oracle Autonomous Linux Is The World’s First Autonomous OS https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oow19-oracle-autonomous-linux-091619.html Linux Kernel 5.3 Gets First Point Release https://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-5-3-gets-first-point-release-it-s-now-ready-for-mass-deployments-527518.shtml Parrot 4.7 Released with Linux Kernel 5.2 https://news.softpedia.com/news/parrot-4-7-ethical-hacking-os-released-with-linux-kernel-5-2-mate-1-22-desktop-527520.shtml Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-releases-new-kernel-live-patch-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts-and-16-04-lts-527536.shtml Zorin OS 15 Education Edition Officially Released https://news.softpedia.com/news/zorin-os-15-education-edition-officially-released-based-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-527562.shtml First Librem 5 Linux Phones Start Shipping to Customers Around the World https://news.softpedia.com/news/first-librem-5-linux-phones-start-shipping-to-customers-around-the-wor

Back from a long weekend out of town with more news! Turns out Fortnite ended while I was away! Listen Now We Need You To Join Us Do you love talking about tech, gadget and/or gaming news? So do we! Join the best Facebook group over at http://facebook.com/groups/latestintechnews Article Links: Fortnite black hole: Leaked Chapter 2 trailer shows boating, fishing, and carrying teammates Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming preview is now live Razer’s Blade Pro 17 for eSports: Now with a 240 Hz Display Watch On YouTube Did we miss something on the show? Let us know on Twitter at @technewsgadget! Have news you want to share? Submit it here. Original Article Link: #198 The End Of Fortnite

token-ring-configuration 1985– IBM announced, with co-developer Texas Instruments, the Token Ring network along with PC Network software – six months ahead of schedule. The Token Ring only did network transmission speed of 4 Mbps (It didn’t hit speeds of 16 Mbps until 1989), and worked over standard phone wiring. Using terminated BNC cable, Token Ring created just that; a Ring connection that talks in one direction. The standard was also known as the IEEE 802.5 protocol. Token Ring further developed to run 100 Mbps. Eventually, Ethernet overtook Token Ring because it was cheaper to install, even though it was a better protocol than Ethernet. Did/Does Cable TV Use Token Ring? Cable companies use Fiber and Coaxial cable to bring Internet and TV into a home. The coaxial cable is similar looking to the cable used in some Token Ring networks, but the two technologies are different. Some Token Ring cards did use a similar cable, but also used IBM’s hermaphroditic

zmodem 1986 – Telenet funded a project to develop an improved public domain application to application file transfer protocol. This protocol would alleviate the throughput problems their network customers were experiencing with XMODEM and Kermit file transfers. ZMODEM could provide high performance and reliability over packet switched networks while preserving XMODEM’s simplicity. It made XModem and YModem obsolete. Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can continue the coverage of Gadget tech, music tech, and geek culture through the shows. Chuck Yeager flies the speed of soundARM 250 is releasedApple launched the iPhon

Solving Exponential Problems in Polynomial TimePretty much all of computing rests on the strong foundation of the Turing Machine, a general purpose formulation of computing which happens to be very sequential. It transfers that attribute to the Von Neumann architecture that manifests it and leads to the famous Von Neumann bottleneck.It would be good if an inherently parallel foundation existed. That requires a blending of computing and memory and has led to approaches to build processor-in-memory or computational memory systems. If successful, it could help reach the nirvana of solving (some?) exponential problems in polynomial time by exposing the intrinsic parallelism of large scale problems.The @RadioFreeHPC team delves into this topic with the folks at MemComputing, a San Diego startup that's built a new parallel foundation for computing. It calls it the universal memcomputing machine, and a "realization of self-organizing circuits".It's a lively discussion with co-founders John Beane, CEO, and Fabio

Priceline Lawsuit to Microsoft 1999– Priceline filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and its Expedia travel service. The suit outlined how they violated U.S. patent number 5,794,207, “Method and Apparatus for a Cryptographically Assisted Network System Designed to Facilitate Buyer-Driven Conditional Purchase Offers.” The two sites come to terms in 2001, in where Microsoft pays a fine. Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can continue the coverage of Gadget tech, music tech, and geek culture through the shows. Microsoft tries to acquire IntuitATI & NVidia antitrust is closedNBCOlympics.com stats

This week from GNC Week In Review; PC sales are growing, Google ends facial scanning program, plus the FBI warns of major ransomware attacks Show Notes: PC sales are growing Google ends facial scanning program FBI warns of major ransomware attacks Facebook agrees to pay $40 million  macOS Catalina Hulu subscribers can finally download shows Walmart’s low-cost versions of Roku soundbar Kindle Kids Edition Twitch on Apple TV Roku TVs start showing interactive pop-ups Samsung new Chromebook 4 Amazon updates the Fire 10 Trending last week on Google Trends at number 4: Forever 21 Trending today on Twitter at number 1: South Carolina Trending today on YouTube at number 4: Disney’s Jungle Cruise

Steve Jobs Debuts NeXT Computer 1988– Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. Steve Jobs shows off the NeXT Computer featuring the Motorola 68030 microprocessor at 25 MHz. The computer introduces several new features including optical storage disk, voice recognition, and object-oriented languages. The system came with the NeXT STep operating system and cost $6,500. NeXT computer sold around 50,000 units. The NeXTSTEP Operating System was highly influential. It was the basis of Mac OS X. Apple acquired NeXT on Decemeber 20th, 1996 for $429 million in cash. Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple and the rest was history. Steve Jobs almost didn’t come back after he was fired from Apple. He ended up not only founding NeXT, but also helped with Pixar. It does beg the question: Would we have an iPhone, iPad if Jobs wouldn’t have come back? Same question if he wasn’t brought back as CEO of Apple? Would it have been the NeXTPhone and NeXTPad? NeXT Logo Subcribe to D

How many of you are looking forward to the League of Legends 2019 World Championship this year? I know I am and I’m super pumped the song for this year is out! Listen Now We Need You To Join Us Do you love talking about tech, gadget and/or gaming news? So do we! Join the best Facebook group over at http://facebook.com/groups/latestintechnews Article Links: League of Legends Releases the Worlds 2019 Song Get ready to see more looping videos on Spotify, as Canvas launches into beta Google wants to reduce Stadia lag with ‘negative latency’ Watch On YouTube Did we miss something on the show? Let us know on Twitter at @technewsgadget! Have news you want to share? Submit it here. Original Article Link: #197 Worlds 2019 Song Released!

Dan Bricklin Shows off Visicalc 1979– Visicalc is released by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. The spreadsheet application is called the first killer app for personal computers. It turned the PC from a hobby to a business tool. The software was released under their company name “Software Arts”. It was developed for the Apple II computer with 6502 assmebler.  Only downfall for the company was they did not patent the system, therefore, clones like SuperCalc, Microsoft’s MultiPlan and Lotus 1-2-3, would show up. Visicalc is short for “Visual Calculator”.  Subcribe to Day In Tech History: RSS Feed - iTunes - Google Play - SpotifyTwitter - Facebook - RSS Bandwidth by Cachefly Get a 14 Day Trial Be a Part of the Sconnie Geek Nation! In Wisconsin, friends are called "Sconnies". Even if you're not from Wisconsin, you can be part of the Sconnie Geek Nation through my coverage! By pledging, you join the Geek Sconnie Nation! Plus, you help me cover costs so I can