Technorama Ep 444 : Wait, What?

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Killer Robots
More remote device hacking
No need for Morning alarms again

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From MadMarv:

I don’t remember what the oldest book I own is, but I know that I have an TI 48G calculator from college that I still use almost every day at the office. It still uses it’s original 32kb of RAM and has never been patched. I thought about loading something cool on it like Mortal Kombat, but I never got around to it.

On This Day In History for August 5th, 2015

This is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1305 that William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador on this date in 1583.
Also today in 1620, The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
August 5, 1861, The United States Army abolishes flogging.
The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established 133 years ago today.
It was 127 years ago today that Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed on this date in 1914.
Also today in 1926, Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 5, 1957, American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage “baby-boomers” by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
It was 46 years ago today that Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest flyby of Mars (3,524 kilometers).

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

Norwegian mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel, born on this date in 1802.
Also born on this date in 1906, actor, director, and screenwriter John Huston.
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was born today in 1930.
Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic would have been 78 today.
Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut Leonid Kizim, was born August 5, 1941
Actress Loni Anderson turns 70 today.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is 65.
and Marcia from The Brady Bunch, actress Maureen McCormick is 59.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 5, 2015

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