{"id":7013,"date":"2026-01-07T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:51:43","slug":"episode-793-my-resolution-is-4k-or-happy-nerd-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2026\/01\/07\/episode-793-my-resolution-is-4k-or-happy-nerd-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 793: My Resolution is 4K or Happy Nerd Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 793 - My Resolution is 4K\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiXEv6xsW_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1P7\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3219\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3340\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7013-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep793_260107.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep793_260107.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep793_260107.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep793_260107.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep793_260107.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>QOTW\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1430387339092050&amp;set=a.740221581441966\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/455731709984636958\/1422712073045016626\">Discord | #question-of-the-week | Technorama Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On This Day In History for January 7, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was on this date in 1610, that Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the last two until the following night..<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>244 years ago today, The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was also this date in 1785 that Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travelled from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>191 years ago today, HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, dropped anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That same date in 1894, Thomas Edison made a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, received a patent for motion picture film.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 7, 1904, The distress signal &#8220;CQD&#8221; was established only to be replaced two years later by &#8220;SOS&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also today in 1927, The first transatlantic commercial telephone service was established from New York City to London.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On January 7, 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashed while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That same date in 1968, Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A..<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also on January 7, 1985, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched Sakigake, Japan&#8217;s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time, Sandford Fleming, born on this date in 1827.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone, Johann Philipp Reis was born 192 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Born January 7, 1837, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company Thomas Henry Ismay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>French mathematician and politician, \u00c9mile Borel was born 155 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Born January 7, 1890, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American cartoonist, created The Addams Family, Charles Addams was born 114 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also turning 85 today is English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate John E. Walker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American actor, Nicolas Cage is 62 today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Listener Birthdays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8 &#8211; Elvis!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9 &#8211; Lingo from the Brit &amp; Yankee pubcast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13 &#8211; Tim Cook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for January 7, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA\/viewform\">Birthday Calendar<\/a> link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/26\/01\/02\/1919255\/nyc-phone-ban-reveals-some-students-cant-read-clocks\">NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can&#8217;t Read Clocks &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/01\/03\/zork-running-on-4-bit-intel-computer\/\">Zork Running On 4-Bit Intel Computer | Hackaday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Shout out to the chat room<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch us live every Sunday night at 8:30PM ET on Facebook. Go to Join our page and get notified automatically. Join us on the live chat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Remember When<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/12\/251228074449.htm\">Fossilized bones are revealing secrets from a lost world | ScienceDaily<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/science\/news\/comet-airburst-13000-years-ago-may-have-triggered-ice-age-extinctions-10238356\">13,000-Year-Old Cosmic Airburst Triggered \u2018Impact Winter\u2019 and Mass Extinction, Research Suggests | Technology News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thank you Patrons!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This show is brought to you by\u2026 YOU! Thank you to our Patrons who enable us to keep the show running and bring you special episodes. <strong>Special shout out to our 10 year veterans!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Alexis Duran<\/strong><\/td><td>Amber Elstad<\/td><td>Amy Bowen<\/td><td><strong>Avner Braverman<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ben Vaughan<\/td><td>Brad Miller<\/td><td>Brian Brown<\/td><td>Chris Martinez<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chris Mc<\/td><td>DanDMan Coyer<\/td><td>Dean Jensen<\/td><td>Denise Inglis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gary Lindros<\/td><td>Jason Pollard<\/td><td>John Clifford<\/td><td>John Noble<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jorge Schrauwen<\/td><td>Krazy Joe<\/td><td><strong>Kyle Nishioka<\/strong><\/td><td>Leon<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>M<\/td><td>Mark Kilfoil<\/td><td><strong>Mike Wills<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Saturday Morning Media<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stephen Wesche<\/td><td>Steve Cody<\/td><td><strong>Steve Therrien<\/strong><\/td><td>Steve Webb<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stewe Lundin<\/td><td>Sylvain Racicot<\/td><td>Tim Cook<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to become a patron, visit our<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/technoramapodcast\"> Patreon Page<\/a>. 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