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January 21Episode 795: The Winter of our Disconnected Content
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On This Day In History for January 21, 2026
This is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1789, that The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, was printed in Boston.
118 years ago today, New York City passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
January 21, 1911, The first Monte Carlo Rally took place.
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States on this date in 1954.
Also on January 21, 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
That same date in 1971, The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, began transmitting UHF broadcasts.
It was on this date in 1976, that Commercial service of Concorde began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
January 21, 1981, Production of the DeLorean sports car began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem was in the management of its flash memory and was fixed remotely from Earth on February 6 on this date in 2004.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist, William Henry Smyth, born on this date in 1788.
American general, explorer, and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona, John C. Frémont was born 213 years ago today.
Born January 21, 1827, Russian mathematician and theorist Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin.
Dutch mathematician and academic, Pieter Hendrik Schoute was born 180 years ago today.
Joseph Achille Le Bel, the French chemist was born 179 years ago today.
Born January 21, 1874, French mathematician René-Louis Baire.
Belgian-American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck was born 146 years ago today.
Russian mathematician and theologian, Pavel Florensky, born on this date in 1882.
Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft was born on that same date in 1953.
Listener Birthdays
21 – Michael Rabalais
22 – TAW012294
23 – Kathie Luke, IL
23 – Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat
23 – Keith Lane from TGGeeks
24 – Cynthia Fry
25 – Kreg Steppe
26 – Will The Computer Guy
27 – Mark in Memphis
27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 21, 2026
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Lunar Standard Time (LTE440): Scientists have developed new software to translate Earth’s time flow to the Moon’s, accounting for gravitational differences.
The Bot Takeover: Recent reports confirm that 51% of all web traffic is now generated by bots, surpassing human activity for the first time in a decade.
DNA Storage Breakthrough: A Twist Bioscience spin-off is targeting terabyte-scale DNA storage, theoretically fitting 13TB of data into a volume the size of a water droplet.
Hacks & Strange Stories
Doom in the Kitchen: A programmer successfully ported the classic shooter Doom to run on a smart electric cooking pot after reflashing its touchscreen firmware.
Gen Z’s Retro Revival: Why younger generations are ditching smartphones for “obsolete” early-2000s digital cameras and Walkmans to find “authenticity”.
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Dune (1984) – Netflix
Starfleet Academy – Paramount+
Finding Nemo – Plex
Kreg
The Running Man – Paramount+
Starfleet Academy – Paramount+
Rewatch – Ted Lasso – Apple TV
Question of the week
If you could upload your consciousness into any robot from sci-fi history, which one would you pick and why?
Patreon Topic this week
I got a new phone case
Hearing aids and glasses ordered
What I discovered about moving my songbook app off ServiceNow
Don’t end your password with a % if you plan on putting it in a ‘.env’ file
Notion APIs are too slow!
Sequelize is cool (and very familiar)
Anbernic
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January 14Episode 794: Set Phasers to ‘Mild Inconvenience’
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Email about cursive from Lisa
Hello gents.
I started out as a preschool/prek teacher teaching Littles how to write their names. Cursive was originally used in the Quill and ink pot days so you could write without lifting the quill too often it was also too increase speed and to be stylized in Victorian times.
Because if your think about it things were much prettier back in those times. Smellier but Fancier of course.
Catch ya on the next podcast.
On This Day In History for January 14, 2026
This is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1899, that RMS Oceanic, the largest ship afloat since SS Great Eastern, was launched.
January 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition made landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
On January 14, 1952, NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuted, with host Dave Garroway.
72 years ago today, The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
Also on January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer, Johann Matthias Hase, born on this date in 1684.
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French sailor, explorer, and politician was born on that same date in 1705.
Polish mathematician and academic, Hugo Steinhaus was born 139 years ago today.
Mark Goodson, the American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right was born 111 years ago today.
American director, producer, and screenwriter, Steven Soderbergh, born on this date in 1963.
Also turning 57 today is American actor, director, and producer Jason Bateman.
Listener Birthdays
6 – Matt Posz (recently added, and recently missed)
14 – Glynne Tolar
15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)
17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) originally from Canada but now from Thailand
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 14, 2026
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Space platypuses stumped astronomers
When does the Nasa Moon mission launch and who are the Artemis II crew?
Annual ‘Worst in Show’ CES list released | AP News
Hacks & Strange Stories
The Isolator | The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction | Manifold@UMinnPress
BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached | Hackaday
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Kreg
His&Hers – (Netflix)
Chuck
Game of Thrones (S1) – Plex
11.22.63 (Netflix)
Lazarus Project (S1/S2) – Netflix
Johnny Mnemonic – Netflix
Question of the week
If you had to let a Generative AI write your professional bio using only your last three online purchases, what would your new job title be?
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January 07Episode 793: My Resolution is 4K or Happy Nerd Year!
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On This Day In History for January 7, 2026
This is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining in 2026.
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..
244 years ago today, The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opened.
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.
191 years ago today, HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, dropped anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
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.
January 7, 1904, The distress signal “CQD” was established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
Also today in 1927, The first transatlantic commercial telephone service was established from New York City to London.
On January 7, 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashed while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
That same date in 1968, Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A..
Also on January 7, 1985, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched Sakigake, Japan’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.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time, Sandford Fleming, born on this date in 1827.
German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone, Johann Philipp Reis was born 192 years ago today.
Born January 7, 1837, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company Thomas Henry Ismay.
French mathematician and politician, Émile Borel was born 155 years ago today.
Born January 7, 1890, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.
American cartoonist, created The Addams Family, Charles Addams was born 114 years ago today.
Also turning 85 today is English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate John E. Walker.
American actor, Nicolas Cage is 62 today.
Listener Birthdays
8 – Elvis!
9 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast
13 – Tim Cook
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 7, 2026
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can’t Read Clocks – Slashdot
Hacks & Strange Stories
Zork Running On 4-Bit Intel Computer | Hackaday
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Fossilized bones are revealing secrets from a lost world | ScienceDaily
13,000-Year-Old Cosmic Airburst Triggered ‘Impact Winter’ and Mass Extinction, Research Suggests | Technology News
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Media Corner
Chuck finally built a Plex server (now that he has more storage)
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Playdate (Prime)
After the Hunt (Prime)
Chuck
Severance Season 2 (Apple TV)
House of David (Amazon)
Stranger Things Season 5 (Netflix)
The Lost Bus (Apple TV)
Geek Library
The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World’s Most Important Machine
Question of the week
What is your Digital New Year’s Resolution?
Patreon Topic this week
Kreg’s Digital Resolutions
Syncing with Boox with my Synology NAS
Chuck’s Notion Dev Project
Chuck’s USB cable
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December 31, 2025Episode 792: Firmware Update 2026: Patched, Rebooted, and Ready
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On This Day In History for December 31, 2025
This is the 365th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are no more days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1759, that Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and started brewing Guinness.
181 years ago today, The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.
December 31, 1853, A dinner party was held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
It was on this date in 1878, that Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.
Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey on this date in 1879.
In 1907 the first ever ball drop was held in Times Square.
General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year on this date in 1955.
On December 31, 1956, The Romanian Television network began its first broadcast in Bucharest.
57 years ago today was the first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
Also today in 1983, The AT&T Bell System was broken up by the United States Government.
December 31, 1991, All official Soviet Union institutions had ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union was officially dissolved.
That same date in 1994, this date was skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes was published on this date in 1995.
On December 31, 2009, Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred.
It was also this date in 2011 that NASA succeeded in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
It was 5 years ago today that The World Health Organization issued its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French navigator and explorer, Jacques Cartier, born on this date in 1491.
George Meade, the American general and engineer was born 210 years ago today.
Born December 31, 1860, American businessman, co-founder of Texaco Joseph S. Cullinan.
Robert Grant Aitken, the American astronomer and academic was born 161 years ago today.
Born December 31, 1905, American astronomer and academic Helen Dodson Prince.
New Zealand mathematician and academic, Vaughan Jones, born on this date in 1952.
Val Kilmer, American actor was born on that same date in 1959.
Listener Birthdays
December
31 – Shadowbird’s Mom
31 – Mr. Sim (aka Jeremy)
January
3 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)
6 – Steve Therrien
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 31, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Star Trek’s Warp Drive now possible, scientists say
The most exciting exoplanet discoveries of 2025 | Space
Sub made incredible discovery underneath Antarctic ice before going missing – The Mirror
Hacks & Strange Stories
Is It True There Are Two Places On Earth Where You Can Walk Directly On The Mantle?
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More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
Thank you Patrons!
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenAvner BravermanBen VaughanBrad MillerBrian BrownChris MartinezChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenDenise InglisGary LindrosJason PollardJohn CliffordJohn NobleJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeKyle NishiokaLeonMMark KilfoilMike WillsSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve CodySteve TherrienSteve WebbStewe LundinSylvain RacicotTim Cook
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Kreg
Roofman – Paramount+
In Bruges – VOD
Chuck
Identity – Netflix
Castle Rock – Netflix
Stranger Things S5
Severance S2
Everything Everywhere Daily (podcast)
Geek Library
1980s Internet: An Ancient PDP-11 Goes Live on the Web – YouTube
Playing DOOM On A Receipt Printer | Hackaday
Question of the week
In a future where robots do all the ‘real’ work, what highly specific, strangely human job would you invent for yourself just to stay busy?
Patreon Topic this week
Migrating websites
What we got for Christmas
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December 25, 2025Episode 791: Tech the Halls with Boughs of Data
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On This Day In History for December 24, 2025
This is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1777, that Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook.
That same date in 1818, The first performance of “Silent Night” took place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
Also on December 24, 1906, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
73 years ago today was the first flight of Britain’s Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
That same date in 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 entered into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis.
The first Ariane 1 rocket was launched from ELA-1 at the Guiana Space Centre. on this date in 1979.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English physicist and brewer, James Prescott Joule, born on this date in 1818.
Georges Guynemer, French captain and pilot was born on that same date in 1894.
Howard Hughes, the American businessman, engineer, and pilot was born 120 years ago today.
Born December 24, 1923, American general George Patton IV.
Listener Birthdays Dec 2025
1 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)
2 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast
6 – SuperMoonMan
7 – Peter aka Zzippster from the Zzipp and Co. Podcast
8 – DanDman
8 – Gydian (Michael H.)
9 – Steve Kite (BigUnit62)
12 – Deckrd
12 – Kevin Burns (Soleblaze)
12 – Matt Blocker TheGiant
12 – Rob Riehl (suriehl)
12 – Pamela Gay from AstronomyCast
13 – Fritz The German
14 – Michael Spence from Brother Osric’s Scriptorium
17 – Jorge Schrauwen
20 – Phil Burchill the 9 year old I started listening to Technorama when I turned 21 this year (2017)!
21 – Johnne Robison Kochheiser
21 – James Ballard KarakSindru
21 – Startrekmom aka: Janet
22 – Bo Pace
22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)
22 – Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL
23 – Richard Green
24 – MaDBooM
25 – Joel Parks (Agrojag-Ama)
29 – CMenn
31 – Shadowbird’s Mom
31 – Mr. Sim (aka Jeremy)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 24, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
“This is a Real Gift for Physicists”: A Black Hole Just Twisted Spacetime—and Proved Einstein Right Again – The Debrief
Moving Objects without Touching Them: Scientists Invent Chip that Generates Acoustic Waves as “Invisible Grabbers” – The Debrief
Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
Hacks & Strange Stories
Hacks, thefts, and disruption: The worst data breaches of 2025 | TechCrunch
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenAvner BravermanBen VaughanBrad MillerBrian BrownChris MartinezChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenDenise InglisGary LindrosJason PollardJohn CliffordJohn NobleJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeKyle NishiokaLeonMMark KilfoilMike WillsSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve CodySteve TherrienSteve WebbStewe LundinSylvain RacicotTim Cook
If you want to become a patron, visit our Patreon Page. We’ve got various levels of donations and in return we have various patron packages including a special “after show” we record just for the patrons! chuckchat.com/patreon
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Kreg
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Netflix
Project Hail Mary – Book
Nobody 2
Chuck
Wake up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Netflix
The Andromeda Strain
Nobody
Nobody 2
Weapons
Doctor Sleep (Netflix)
Stranger Things S5 (E1-4)
Geek Library
How I Made A C64 Laptop From Scratch – The Portable 64 (Emulation)
Question of the week
What’s one nerdy thing you want to accomplish in 2026? (e.g. tackle a project, learn something new, read/re-read a series)
Patreon Topic this week
Time to get more NAS storage for Chuck
WordPress Updates
Finishing my 3D Print Project
India
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December 18, 2025 A Geek Christmas Story (2009)
“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80′s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”
Written By:
Kreg Steppe and Douglas E. Welch
Produced By:
George Starcher – Typical Mac User Podcast
Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast – – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Steve Holden – Tech News Radio – Jersey Boys Podcast – AztecMedia.net
Cast of Players:
Narrator: Kreg Steppe – Technorama
Harvey Stevens: Dad – Kevin Devin
Mandy Stevens: Mom – Susie Murph – How to Grow your Geek Podcast
Mattie Stevens: Son – Daniel Devin
Sandy Stevens: Little Brother – Spencer Holden
Curtz Eisenberg: Friend to Mattie – Harrison Steppe
General Beringer: General – Douglas E. Welch
Lieutenant: Steve Holden – Tech News Radio
Mrs. Little: Katie Floyd – Mac Power Users Podcast
Santa’s Helper: Chuck Tomasi – Chuckchat.com
Santa: Larry Pesce – Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Judge: Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Andrew Carnagie: Andy Helsby – Absoblogginlutely!
J.P. Morgan: Grant Bichocco – Mr.Grant.com
UPS Guy: Paul Asadoorian- Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Skipper: Rylie Starcher
Tip of the Hat to the old Christmas Commodore 64 Demo
This has been a Friends in Tech Production.
32 min
December 17, 2025 Interface to Face: Gil Gerard (2010)
Chuck and I are deeply saddened to hear of Gil Gerard’s passing.
Back in 2010, we had the privilege of interviewing Gil at his booth during Dragon*Con for our short lived podcast, Interface to Face. While he is, of course, an icon for his role in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, we found him to be much more than just his sci-fi legacy. He was incredibly funny, gracious, and generous with his time, chatting at length with us about his upcoming projects.
It was a memorable encounter with a true professional. Rest in peace, Gil.
27 min
November 25, 2025Episode 790: Cyber Turkeys Attack!
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On This Day In History for November 26, 2025
This is the 330th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1778, that In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook became the first European to visit Maui.
236 years ago today, A national Thanksgiving Day was observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
Also on November 26, 1805, Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was officially opened.
It was 103 years ago today that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
60 years ago today, France launched Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
Also today in 1970, In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fell in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
Also on November 26, 1983, was the Brink’s-Mat robbery. In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million were stolen from the Brink’s-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
The Concorde made its final flight over Bristol, England on this date in 2003.
On November 26, 2018, The robotic probe Insight landed on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
4 years ago today, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
German organist and composer, Johannes Bach, born on this date in 1604.
French geophysicist and astronomer, Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was born 347 years ago today.
Alsatian-French chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz, born on this date in 1817.
German-French physicist and academic, Rudolph Koenig was born 193 years ago today.
Willis Carrier, the American engineer, inventor of air conditioning was born 149 years ago today.
Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1888.
American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., born on this date in 1895.
Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1898.
American businessman, co-founded McDonald’s, Maurice McDonald, born on this date in 1902.
Born November 26, 1922, American cartoonist, created Peanuts Charles M. Schulz.
Also turning 89 today is English computer scientist and psychologist Margaret Boden.
Italian mathematician and academic, Enrico Bombieri is 85 today.
Also born on that same date in 1949, East Timorese geographer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri.
Also turning 73 today is Mexican-American science teacher and entomologist Elsa Salazar Cade.
Listener Birthdays
Nov 26 – Joanie
Nov 27 – Brad P. from NJ(but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)
Nov 28 – Ben Sweetser
Dec 1 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)
Dec 2 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 26, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Copy of SUPERMAN #1 Sold for $9 Million – Nerdist
View Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through NASA’s Multiple Lenses – NASA Science
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
New study suggest we may have the theory of the moon all wrong
Hacks & Strange Stories
Someone made their own smart coffee pot that runs off an ESP32
Claude AI Successfully Controls Robot Dog in Breakthrough Test | The Tech Buzz
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Night Teeth (N)
Red Joan (N)
The Carman Family Deaths (N)
The Outfit (N)
The Lion’s Share (N)
Tenet (N)
Kreg
Nate Bargatze – Greenville, NC – Bons Secures Wellness Arena
Geek Library
What happened to IPv5?
Patreon Topic this week
Chuck may have unlocked a way to do database triggered NodeJS – now what?
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1 hr 7 min
November 19, 2025Episode 789: Because Seven Ate Nine
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On This Day In History for November 19, 2025
This is the 323rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1493, that Christopher Columbus went ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He named it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
It was 209 years ago today that Warsaw University was established.
Also today in 1881, A meteorite landed near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.
It was 109 years ago today that Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn established Goldwyn Pictures.
It was also this date in 1967 that saw the establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and became the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon on this date in 1969.
Also today in 1996, Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.
Exactly one year later, Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on STS-87.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer, Mikhail Lomonosov, born on this date in 1711.
Georg Hermann Quincke, the German physicist and academic was born 191 years ago today.
Indian-English astronomer and author, Agnes Giberne, born on this date in 1845.
Born November 19, 1876, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva.
James B. Sumner, the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 138 years ago today.
American astronomer Eleanor F. Helin was born 93 years ago today.
Also turning 72 today is American actor Robert Beltran.
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, Eileen Collins is 69 today.
Also turning 62 today is American actress Terry Farrell.
American businessman, co-founded Twitter, Jack Dorsey is 49 today.
Belgian computer programmer, Dries Buytaert, born on this date in 1978.
Listener Birthdays
22 – Tom Posz
25 – Lane Williams
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 19, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology | CNN
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket came back home after taking aim at Mars – Ars Technica
Hacks & Strange Stories
Decades-old ‘Finger’ protocol abused in ClickFix malware attacks
The Louvre’s video surveillance had a shockingly weak password | Cybernews
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The ‘worst-selling Microsoft product of all time’ sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it — why you’ve never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20 | Tom’s Hardware
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Quantum Leap (Netflix)
High Plains Drifter (Netflix)
Being Eddie (Netflix)
Deep Impact (Netflix)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Alexander – Making a God (Netflix)
Kreg
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking (Season 2) (HBOMax)
Geek Library
The 7 Phases of the Internet
Question of the week
When you were younger, who influenced you? (Comedian, Actor, Author, etc)
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1 hr 2 min
November 11, 2025Episode 788: The Unbuffered Stream of Consciousness
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On This Day In History for November 12, 2025
This is the 316th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining in 2025.
It was also this date in 1936 that In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic.
That same date in 1954, Ellis Island ceased operations.
It was on this date in 1970, that The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
Also on November 12, 1980, The NASA space probe Voyager I made its closest approach to Saturn and took the first images of its rings.
November 12, 1981, Space Shuttle Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a crewed spacecraft was launched into space twice.
It was on this date in 1995 that Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module to the Russian space station Mir.[17]
Today in 2003, Shanghai Transrapid set a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
It was 11 years ago today, that The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe, reached the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
On November 12, 2020, The PlayStation 5 was released.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French admiral and explorer, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, born on this date in 1729.
Thaddeus William Harris, the American entomologist and botanist was born 230 years ago today.
Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist was born on that same date in 1833.
Born November 12, 1842, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate John William Strutt.
DeWitt Wallace, the American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader’s Digest was born 136 years ago today.
Born November 12, 1923, English archaeologist and explorer Ian Graham.
Richard H. Truly, the NASA astronaut was born 88 years ago today.
American actress Anne Hathaway is 43 today.
Listener Birthdays
13 – Jennifer Therrien
15 – Jackie Breller (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)
15 – Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 12, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Breakthrough brain discovery reveals a natural way to relieve pain | ScienceDaily
Portal Space Systems introduces Starburst, a new breed of maneuverable spacecraft
Warm ocean beneath Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus may be perfect for life | ScienceDaily
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9,000-year-old ice melt shows how fast Antarctica can fall apart | ScienceDaily
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Tron:Ares
Lean Morgan: Unspeakable Things – Netflix
Chuck
A House of Dynamite (Netflix)
The White House Effect (Netflix)
Sarah Millican (in person)
Question of the week
What is the most useless piece of merch you’ve ever bought?
Patreon Topic this week
Chuck: Our Sunday Morning Stranger
Chuck: WHERE DID IT GO?
Kreg: Thermometer and Hygrometer Sensors
Kreg: New Pebble
Kreg: Hot Sauce in my eye
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