FAA flights grounded: 44,000 daily flights, 5,500 planes in the air, 3 million passengers a day and how US skies workThe US aviation network manages tens of thousands of flights daily through a chain of airport towers, radar facilities and regional control...
Trump official seeks $50 billion for air traffic control after outageFAA flights grounded: After a nationwide groundstop halted thousands of flights, the Trump administration increased its air traffic control...
Until June 2019, the system sending launch orders to US nuclear forces ran on 8-inch floppy disks; the Air Force kept them partly because they could not be hacked onlineThe U.S. Department of Defense has relied on outdated technology for critical systems, including nuclear command. Recent reports highlight ...
Andy Warhol created digital art in 1985 and left it on obsolete floppy disks; 36 years later, 5 recovered works sold as NFTs for $3.38 millionAndy Warhol created digital art on a Commodore Amiga computer in 1985. Researchers recovered these forgotten digital works from floppy disk...
In 1983, Steve Jobs reportedly ordered Apple’s failed Twiggy Macs destroyed; one surviving prototype sold for $150,075A rare 1983 Macintosh prototype, which Steve Jobs ordered destroyed, recently sold for $150,075. This early computer featured an unreliable...
Ransomware incidents targeting 'critical infrastructure' have grown: MeitYRansomware incidents have grown over time with attacks across multiple sectors, including commercial and "critical infrastructure".
Byju’s under pressure on $1.2B loan; SBF arrested in Bahamas on US chargesEdtech giant Byju’s, India’s highest-valued startup, has been looking to restructure a $1.2 billion loan as it struggles with huge losses a...
ETtech Explainer: Tracing ransomware’s path from floppy disks to cryptoThe recent cyberattack on Delhi’s AIIMS has once again put ransomware under the spotlight. Such attacks have come a long way since the firs...
Japan Minister Taro Kono 'declares war' against outdated technology, targets floppy disksTaro Kono, the Digital Minister of Japan, wants to extend his bid to phase out outdated technology tools by getting rid of the floppy disk....
Net pioneer Vint Cerf warns of digital info dark ageComputer and data scientists globally have worried that all data - this century’s digital history — is at risk of never being recoverable. ...
Sneak Ops is a game right out of an action movieYou’re a covert operative on a mission to infiltrate a high-tech military base.
Steve Jobs 'played no role at all' in designing the Apple I or Apple II computers, Steve Wozniak saysWoz had been designing computers since he was in high school, he told Khemchandani, coming up with ingenious ways to create computers with ...
Budget 2011: Duty on parts will make PCs costlierPC costs will go up, but whether manufacturers will absorb that cost or pass it on to the consumer is not clear yet.
- 'PCs to become costlier by only Rs 60 on increase in excise duty'
MAIT said levy of concessional 5% excise duty on microprocessors will push prices of PCs only by Rs 60.
- Floppy disk is dead. Time to move to ‘cloud’
It is the end of the road for the humble floppy that once littred homes across the world. Sony, the sole major manufacturer , confirmed it ...
- An entrepreneur has the ability to inspire people Deepak Puri
Deepak Puri, CMD, Moser Baer India says that an entrepreneur is someone with vision, passion, an appetite for risk and the ability to inspi...
- Controversial Internet filter optional: China
A top Beijing official said Thursday that a controversial Internet filter software was optional for all users after plans to install it on ...