It was a great time to be a Windows Insider this past week as there were client, server, and development releases for testers. The Windows 10 (19H1) Build 18323 release also marked a significant milestone in the seventh feature updates development cycle and I break that all down for you to start the show off. We then talk about the future of the Windows Insiders Program, including what this upcoming feature update is likely to be called, updates for the retail release of Windows 10, and a rundown of some of the key improvements in the 19H1 update that is expected in April 2019. There are also all kinds of other tidbits scattered through the show so stay tuned in from the start to the finish of the episode so you catch everything.

Tim McVey Day

1984 – One billion points on one quarter. That was the reason for Tim McVey Day. At the Twin Galaxies arcade back on January 17th, Tim scored 1,000,042,270 points on one quarter to the game “Nibbler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbler_%28video_game%29)” – a hybrid Pac-Man and Centipede game. McVey got his name in Computer Games Magazine for it, and so he became the first video gamer to get a civic day in his honor.

His record was broken eight months later by Enrico Zanetti.

Of course, this event gets overshadowed by the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing by Timothy McVeigh.

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* Yahoo buys Geocities

* Radio Shack chooses Compaq over IBM

* Ann Marie Linscott uses Craigslist to hire a hitman

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Western Union

2006– Founded in 1851, Western Union was responsible for getting the important messages from point A to B. Whether through telegram or commercial messaging, Western Union was synonymous with the service. But on January 27, 2006, that all ended. As Western Union wrote:

“Effective 2006-01-27, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a customer service representative.”

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* MIT vs. David LaMaccia

* Kevin Mitnik cracks the WELL

* White House e-mail outage

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

2006 – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was a game that changed perception of the industry. The grit and cruelty of the GTA franchise has not only brought controversy, its also brought the fans.

One bit of controversy was the “Hot Coffee” minigame within GTA. Hot Coffee was a euphemism for sex. In the minigame, the main character and the girlfriend initiated in coitus, which got a lot of parents upset.

The Hot Coffee minigame was disabled by Take-Two, but people found ways around the block. This minigame prompted a re-rating to Adult, ultimately getting pulled from many game shelves.

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* Greyhound and IBM lawsuit dropped

* Doom Editing Utility is released

* XHTML is released

Wow, the month of January has really flown by hasn’t?  Finishing up the last week of the month where there is a lot of cord-cutting news from YouTube TV To Pluto TV,  the latest news on the foldable phones coming soon and a lot more!

Show Notes:

* What’s coming on Netflix (https://lifehacker.com/whats-coming-and-going-from-netflix-the-week-of-january-1831618487)

* Block and mute artists on Spotify (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191332/spotify-block-feature-mute-artists-music)

* Apple Pay coming to Taco Bell, Wendy’s and more (https://geeknewscentral.com/2019/01/22/apple-pay-coming-to-target-taco-bell-and-more/)

* Newark Airport suspend service due to drones (https://www.cnet.com/news/us-airport-temporarily-halts-arrivals-due-to-drone-sightings/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* OnStar celebrates 10 years (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/onstar-stolen-vehicle-slowdown-video/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Viacom acquires Pluto TV (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18194071/viacom-pluto-tv-acquisition-340-million)

* NBC’s streaming service (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18194308/nbc-streaming-service-the-office-netflix-hulu-30-rock-comcast)

* Hulu drop price to $5.99 (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18193539/hulu-price-change-subscription-ads-live-tv-2019)

* YouTube TV (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18193994/youtube-tv-now-available-nationwide)

* YouTube channels are selling for millions (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18192711/youtube-channel-sales-price-trends-millions)

* This $780.00 leather-covered wireless charger (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/1/23/18194093/native-union-berluti-leather-wireless-charger)

* Shameless trending on Google Trends (https://www.sho.com/shameless)

* Here are all of the folding phones so far (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18196312/foldable-phones-samsung-lg-moto-razr-huawei-xiaomi-sony-oppo)

* #FridayFeeling (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FridayFeeling?src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A1088790560729694209)

* Dodgeball:2019 Pro Bowl Skills Showdown (https://youtu.be/Ue1Wuouc3w4)

In this episode (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode217/RF-CrowdSourced-Weather.mp3) of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement (https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/ibm-weather-system-to-improve-forecasting-around-the-world/) regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuable product. Dan had questions about the value of the crowd sourced data and how it could be scrubbed in order to be useful. Shahin was pretty favorable towards IBM’s plans and believes that they will solve the problems that Henry and Dan raised.IBM came up again in the show as the boys kick around IBM’s quantum computing (https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/ibm-rolls-out-quantum-computer-for-commercial-use/) commercial system. Shahin brought out the point that for a market that has few applications and success stories, it attracted nearly every big vendor in the business. Catch of the Week:Henry told the guys about a new security flaw (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/secret-service-theft-rings-turn-to-fuze-cards/) as pointed out by Krebs, this one concerning an exploit of credit cards.Shahin talked about the newly proposed Deep500 (https://www.deep500.org/) benchmark, designed to compare deep learning and inference performance.Dan discussed a recent interview (https://www.axios.com/artificial-intelligence-automation-jobs-robots-fbca4208-ffea-43c4-9bd3-8102b63caedb.html) with a VC who believed that by 2035, more than 40% of jobs world wide would be taken over by AI. This prompted a discussion of how technology has impacted employment and the economy in the past and how the accelerating pace of economic displacement in the era of AI is much quicker than in any other time.  We end the episode by denouncing attorneys.Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode217/RF-CrowdSourced-Weather.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/FeaOn-0jBSs)

Alexander Graham Bell

1881 –  Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison establish the Oriental Telephone Company of New York and the Angle-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. These companies were licensed to sell telephones in other countries such as Greese, Turkey, India, Japan, China and more.

Countries recieving phones would have 3-digit numbers, which changed to 4, 5, then finally 7. It is unclear when the Oriental Bell Telephone company dissolved, but some of the phone lines they installed are still functional to this day, as according to this article by Indiatimes.com (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Chennais-oldest-telephone-line-is-ringing-loud-at-100/articleshow/42765665.cms)

1915 – 34 years after the company established, the first transcontinental call would be made.

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* Version 2.2 of Linux

* Jini Network Architecture

* Judge reinstates how Microsoft can incorporate Sun Java

OMG I recorded a show and never hit publish.. Geez what they heck.. Anyway better late than never.

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Show Notes:

* NASA delays Day of Remembrance  (https://www.space.com/43108-nasa-government-shutdown-delays-remembrance-ceremony.html)

* Woman sues NASA again (https://www.space.com/43107-nasa-sued-apollo-11-moon-sample-bag.html)

* Apollo 11 50th anniversary  (https://www.space.com/43114-us-mint-launches-apollo-11-coins.html)

* iPhone 11 (https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-11-rumors-price-specs-features-and-everything-else-we-know/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Twitter’s mobile web app (https://www.androidcentral.com/twitters-mobile-web-app-fantastic)

* Robots could replace humans (https://www.cnet.com/news/robots-could-replace-humans-in-a-quarter-of-us-jobs-by-2030/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Verizon dethrones T-Mobile (https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-dethrones-t-mobile-in-latest-ranking-of-mobile-coverage-video-streaming/)

* The 3 worst types of hack (https://lifehacker.com/the-3-worst-types-of-hack-1831990807)

* Anker’s new PowerCore Fusion 10000 (https://kinjadeals.theinventory.com/ankers-new-powercore-fusion-10000-is-a-wall-charger-a-1832025122)

* Senators demand an investigation into carrier location selling (https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/senators-ftc-fcc-location-tracking-scandal-investigation/)

* The 7 best free calling apps (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-calling-app-unlimited-with-wifi/)

* Best Buy 4-day sale (https://www.cnet.com/news/these-are-the-5-hottest-deals-in-best-buys-4-day-sale/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Tivo’s new streaming apps (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195872/tivo-streaming-apps-apple-tv-fire-roku-720p-30fps)

* Microsoft Office now available in Mac’s App Store (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18196087/microsoft-office-apple-mac-app-store-download)

* 11 smart browser alternatives to Safari (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3233269/apple-ios/11-smart-browser-alternatives-to-safari-for-ios.html)

* Verizon cuts 7 percent of its media division staff (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/verizon-cuts-7-percent-of-staff-in-failing-yahooaol-division/)

* Apple might start making its own batteries  (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/apple-hires-a-samsung-battery-exec-suggesting-it-may-make-its-own-batteries/)

* Google and the Supreme Court  (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18196419/google-supreme-court-code-copyright)

* MoviePass to relaunch an unlimited movie plan (https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/moviepass-unlimited-plan-relaunch/)