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Technical glitch during a scheduled upgrade affected all automated immigration clearance systems and led to rare delays at Singapore’s Changi Airport, which recently was again named the world’s best airport. ZDNet reports: Long lines were spotted Thurs… Continue reading Glitch In System Upgrade Identified As Cause of Delays At Singapore Immigration
After nearly 20 years, Hollywood Designer 6.0 is “very stable and mature”, write its developers — envisioning both hobbyist and professional users (with its support for modern graphics-editing features like filter effects and vector graphics) in … Continue reading Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released: Now a ‘Full-Blown Multimedia Authoring System’
I’ve been sewing off and on since I was a kid, and I really started to get into it about ten years ago. Even though I technically outgrew my little …read more Continue reading What You Should Know Before Buying An Industrial Sewing Machine
When the news broke recently that communications had finally been re-established with Voyager 2, I felt a momentary surge of panic. I’ve literally been following the Voyager missions since the twin space probes launched back in 1977, and I’ve been dreading the inevitable day when the last little bit of …read more
Continue reading After Eight-Month Break, Deep Space Network Reconnects with Voyager 2
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Wireless customers are hanging on to their old phones longer than ever. That’s the message from Verizon, which said its upgrade rate fell to a record low last quarter — a harbinger of tough times ahe… Continue reading Record Number of Consumers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones
A reader shares commentary on the newly launched Xbox One X gaming console: Fundamentally, Xbox One X is the same machine that Microsoft released in 2013. It plays the same games, runs the same apps, depends on the same operating system. You can still … Continue reading Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry’s Existential Crisis
Whenever there’s a new Windows virus out there wreaking global havoc, the Linux types get smug. “That’ll never happen in our open operating system,” they say. “There are many eyes looking over the source code.” But then there’s a Heartbleed vulnerability that keeps them humble for a little while. Anyway, at least patches are propagated faster in the Linux world, right?
While the Linuxers are holier-than-thou, the Windows folks get defensive. They say that the problem isn’t with Windows, it’s just that it’s the number one target because it’s the most popular OS. Wrong, that’d be Android for the last …read more
Continue reading Free as in Beer, or the Story of Windows Viruses