Summary: Coming up in this episode... * Lots of robots * Computer history * Space flatulence Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1aC) for complete show notes and video from the show. https://youtu.be/LeUhVuDpGCo Feedback * How many networked devices are in your home - name them: * Mark - A Chromecast, Apple TV, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, Lenovo laptop, 3 Samsung phones, iPad 3rd gen, iPad Mini 2, a Nook, (cont) @technorama (cont) HP Tablet, iPad 1, Airport Express, and I'm surely missing something. * Brad - Can I just send you the results of my nmap scan? On This Day In History for April 15, 2015 * It was on this date in 1738 that Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England. * Also today in 1755, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. * President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death 150 years ago today. * Also today in 1892, The General Electric Company is formed. * April 15, 1896, Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. * The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived 103 years ago today. * It was 92 years ago today that Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. * That same date in 1924, Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. * Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line on this date in 1947. * The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress on this date in 1952. * April 15, 1955, McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. * The first Ford Mustang rolls off the showroom floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide on this date in 1964. * Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others on this date in 2013. * A total lunar eclipse occurs, producing a Blood Moon 1 years ago today. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 15, 2015 News * Turkish Mayor sued for erecting giant robot statue. (http://thedailywh.at/2015/04/controversy-day-turkish-mayor-sued-erecting-giant-robot-statue/) Listener Birthday Calendar * 16 - Donna Tomasi * 16 - Daniel Johnson Jr. * 17 - Sam Roberts * 18 - Skaifey (Anthony) * 19 - Amanda (SusietheGeek's daughter & Geek in Training) * 20 - Geek Tech Live * 20 - Bryan Kennedy * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki (http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/). Hacks & Strange Stories * Sword fighting robots (http://gizmodo.com/we-definitely-shouldnt-have-taught-robots-how-to-sword-1697100626) * Can you fart your way across space? (http://gizmodo.com/is-it-possible-to-fart-your-way-across-space-1696991366) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * 1940s prediction (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1940s-plan-to-replace-jockeys-with-robots-1575204059) comes true with Robot jockeys (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/robot-jockeys-are-a-real-thing-just-as-people-of-the-1-1696283445) * Bard Graduate Centers look at the last 40 years of user experience (http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/03/the-interface-experience/) Media Corner * Attention getters: Spiders or Doctor Who? (http://io9.com/how-doctor-who-helped-scientists-figure-out-why-we-fear-1696437085) * Daredevil Geek Library
